Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersOctober 30, 2018

New Republican Political Action Committee is launching its latest attack ad charging that Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is getting confused and does nothing but raise taxes and cut Medicare, this time with those words coming out of the mouth of a grandmother during a three-generation breakfast. The 30-second spot “Generations” launches today in a […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 10, 2018

Two tax-related proposed constitutional amendments, placed on the November ballot by the Legislature, would shift the burden from the wealthy and corporations to working families, a newly formed political action committee complained Monday. Floridians for Tax Fairness, registered with the state on Wednesday by the League of Women Voters of Florida, Florida Education Association, AFSCME, […]

Scott PowersAugust 29, 2018

The New Republican PAC, set up last year by Republican Gov. Rick Scott, is going after Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson with a new television commercial depicting him as a puppet for the Democratic Party, and always supporting tax increases. Starting Wednesday, the ad appears statewide on both television and the internet, according to a news release […]

Scott PowersJuly 30, 2018

Republican gubernatorial candidate Gov. Rick Scott is blasting his U.S. Senate opponent Bill Nelson for reports that the Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator wasn’t paying payroll taxes to campaign staffers. “Stealing from Medicare,” a 30-second television and digital ad launching today, charges that Nelson is “stealing from Medicare and Social Security” by not paying the employers’ matching […]

Scott PowersJuly 17, 2018

State Rep. Mike Miller is taking to the airwaves in the hotly-contested Republican primary race for Florida’s 7th Congressional District with a television commercial featuring Gov. Rick Scott and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio praising him. The 30-second TV spot, “They Both Like Mike,” is essentially a mashup of some video highlights from two internet ads […]

Scott PowersApril 19, 2018

Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s second television commercial of his U.S. Senate campaign is a Spanish pitch touting jobs and tax cuts and heading for Spanish TV. The ad, “Tanto,” [“So Much”] will be airing on Spanish-language networks and stations in Miami, Tampa, and Orlando. It’s part of a $3 million buy that also includes the […]

Ana CeballosJanuary 29, 2018

A Senate panel on Monday pushed forward a bill that would make it harder for future lawmakers to raise taxes, but also put the upper chamber at odds with the House and Gov. Rick Scott. The proposal by Republican Sen. Kelli Stargel is less stringent than the version passed by the House last week. Under […]

Danny McAuliffeNovember 7, 2017

After hearing support from Gov. Rick Scott, the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday cleared a measure that would amend Florida’s constitution to require a legislative supermajority in each chamber to create or increase a tax or fee. The proposed language defines a supermajority as two-thirds of membership and would require 60 percent voter […]

Stoffel JansenMarch 1, 2017

Credibly reintermediate backend ideas for cross-platform models. Continually reintermediate integrated processes through technical capital.

Joe HendersonFebruary 1, 2017

If there was any uncertainty what the main event will be in the 2017 Florida Legislature, that has been answered. It’s the throw down over the “T” word. In one corner, Gov. Rick Scott is seeking an $815 million increase in public school funding. To help pay for that, the governor wants to use the […]

Tag: taxes
Rodney Guttman, image via University of West Florida.

Grandma rips Bill Nelson as ‘more and more confused’ in New Republican PAC ad

PAC organizes to oppose tax amendments 1, 5

New Republican ad depicts Bill Nelson as ‘Democrats’ puppet’

New Rick Scott ad goes after Bill Nelson on payroll taxes

Mike Miller launching his first TV ad in CD 7 race

Rick Scott Spanish ad touts jobs, tax cuts

Senate at odds with House, governor on proposal that limits tax hikes

With Rick Scott’s blessing, tax supermajority clears committee

EU business should be free to move excesses

Rick Scott, Legislature set for an old-fashioned ‘T’ word throwdown