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A.G. GancarskiNovember 14, 2017

In Jacksonville Tuesday to introduce his budget, Florida Gov. Rick Scott addressed the continuing Roy Moore scandal — and condemned the Alabama U.S. Senate candidate’s behavior in the strongest possible terms Moore has dealt with a tsunami of revelations about “dating” teenagers while he was district attorney in the Gadsden area, with some of the women charging […]

Drew WilsonNovember 13, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott’s political committee, Let’s Get to Work, spent over $1.2 million last month on advertising, a blitz that foreshadows his likely 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Bill Nelson. Of the committee’s $1,281,290 in expenditures last month, $1,229,813 went towards ads. The main beneficiary was Maryland-based OnMessage, which has […]

Staff ReportsNovember 13, 2017

Last week, Gov. Rick Scott announced seven appointments and reappointments to a variety of Florida boards and commissions. Florida Board of Pharmacy Scott began by appointing two to the Florida Board of Pharmacy. Dr. Jeffrey Mesaros, 40, of Orlando, is the senior legal counsel of pharmacy practice for CVS Health. Mesaros received his doctor of […]

Ana CeballosNovember 10, 2017

A day after the Agency for Health Care Administration was criticized for erroneously claiming in a press release that five nursing home facilities had not met a key deadline in Gov. Rick Scott’s emergency generator rule, the agency said it prompted an “excellent result” with facilities submitting their information. The Florida Health Care Association, though, […]

Peter SchorschNovember 10, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott’s office announced Thursday evening that he had signed the executive order setting a special election to replace Democratic Rep. Daisy Baez in Miami-Dade’s House District 114. A special primary election will be held on Feb. 20, 2018, with the general election to follow on May 1. Baez resigned her House seat on […]

Phil AmmannNovember 10, 2017

Northeast Florida is winning — bigly. Check the scoreboard. Or read the articles in this week’s edition. The next leader of the Senate Democrats — Jacksonville’s own Audrey Gibson. The new budget chief in the Senate — Fleming Island’s own Rob Bradley. And yeah, there were … things … that happened … to allow both […]

Bob SparksNovember 9, 2017

What a year we’re having in Florida’s capital city. Just not in a good way. In April, we had the sad spectacle of Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles resigning from the Senate after uttering racial slurs in the direction of Jacksonville Democrat Audrey Gibson. Less than two weeks ago, incoming Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Clemens […]

Mitch PerryNovember 9, 2017

If Rick Scott runs for the U.S. Senate next year (as nearly everyone in Florida politics expects), he will have to deal with Donald Trump and his sagging poll numbers. But less than 48 hours after Democrats posted big wins across the country Tuesday, the Republican governor shows no appetite to analyze the results of […]

Staff ReportsNovember 9, 2017

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Florida’s leading nursing home association is pushing back on that state’s public accusations that nearly two dozen nursing homes missed a key deadline in Gov. Rick Scott‘s emergency generator rule. A statement Wednesday from the Agency for Health Care Administration claims 23 nursing homes have not followed Scott’s rule that nursing homes and assisted living […]

Peter SchorschNovember 9, 2017

Former Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Ring announced Wednesday that four Florida congressmen had endorsed his bid to be Florida’s next Chief Financial Officer. U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings, Al Lawson and Darren Soto, all Democrats, proclaimed their support for Ring via a Wednesday press release from his campaign. “I’ve gotten to know Jeremy over […]

Tag: Rick Scott

Rick Scott calls on Roy Moore to withdraw from Senate race if ‘disgusting’ revelations are true

Rick Scott spent more than $1.2M on advertising last month

Rick Scott announces seven state board appointments

After generator rule deadline passes, AHCA’s tactic draws confusion

Rick Scott sets Feb. 20 primary, May 1 general for HD 114

Jacksonville Bold for 11.10.17 — November reign

Supreme Court brings new meaning to ‘oral arguments’

Rick Scott refuses to play pundit over GOP’s bad night

Nursing homes push back on public accusations of noncompliance in generator order

CFO hopeful Jeremy Ring nabs four endorsements from Florida congressional delegation