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Associated PressMay 7, 2016

Amid an FBI corruption investigation, authorities say the Miami suburb of Opa-locka is teetering toward financial collapse. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez asked Gov. Rick Scott in a letter this week to place the city of 16,000 people under state control. The Miami Herald reports the letter warns that without state support Opa-locka’s government faces complete […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 6, 2016

Rick Scott’s fundraising committee received a boost from his own backyard in April. Let’s Get to Work is expected to report it raised more than $200,000 in April. The committee, which fueled Scott’s 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial campaigns, has raised nearly $1.3 million since the beginning of 2016. Top donors during the one-month fundraising period […]

Scott PowersMay 6, 2016

Sen. Bill Nelson smiled but brushed off as “premature” the talk that Hillary Clinton could put him on her long list of possible vice presidential running mates. While holding a meeting in his Orlando office Friday to discuss the Zika virus and Puerto Rico, Nelson was not shy about also discussing the prospect of a vice presidential run, just coy. […]

Scott PowersMay 6, 2016

Florida’s U.S. Senator Bill Nelson said Friday that Puerto Rico faces a Zika virus public health emergency and he believes the $1.9 billion emergency fund he sponsored will get through the Senate. The Democrat from Orlando also said he is working side-by-side with Florida’s Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to convince Congress that the mosquito-borne […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 6, 2016

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Gov. Rick Scott reiterated on Friday the need for state and federal officials to work together to prepare for the spread of the Zika virus. “We’re coming on summer. We’re going to see heat. We’re going to see rain. We’re going to see mosquitoes. And we’re going to see people coming back from Brazil,” said […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2016

Pinellas County state House Democratic Rep. Dwight Dudley has filed to run for judge of the County Court in Pinellas County’s Group 9. Dudley is a St. Petersburg-based attorney who operates his own law firm. He announced last week that he would not run for re-election for his HD 68 seat that he was first elected to in […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 6, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott said he thinks voters have a clear choice when it comes to the 2016 presidential election. “I think this election is pretty clear. On one side, we have Donald Trump, a business person; someone who is going to focus on creating jobs, someone who wants to destroy ISIS, someone who knows how […]

Phil AmmannMay 6, 2016

On Thursday, Gov. Rick Scott announced three appointments to a pair of state boards dealing with the construction industry. The appointments are subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate. Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board Scott began by reappointing Timothy Bolduc and Edwin Valentin to the Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board, which […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2016

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is on a roll. A day after announcing he intends to challenge Rick Scott and attempt to raise the minimum wage in his city to $13.31 by 2020, he now is airing ads in three California markets extolling his city and that higher wage. The mayor called into my weekly […]

Ryan RayMay 6, 2016

A plan for the state of Florida to buy $6.6 million in new state land easements took another step toward approval this week. Aides to Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet officers heard plans to buy two huge swaths of land in Osceola County, south of St. Cloud, for conservation purposes. Such land is set aside to help […]

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Amid FBI probe, Miami suburb verges on financial collapse

Rick Scott fundraising committee expected to boast big numbers in April

Vice President Bill Nelson? The thought evokes a smile from him, but not much talk

Bill Nelson says Puerto Rico faces Zika emergency

Rick Scott: ‘My goal is to help the federal government get prepared’ for Zika

Dwight Dudley files to run as judge in Pinellas County

Rick Scott predicts Donald Trump will ‘have a big win’ in 2016

Rick Scott names 3 to Florida construction regulatory boards

Mitch Perry Report for 5.6.16 – Philip Levine’s big move

Cabinet aides tee up land deal for Tuesday vote