Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Michael MolineApril 4, 2018

Florida’s new $88.7 billion state budget contains 87 “turkeys” worth $147.5 million, Florida TaxWatch announced Wednesday, including nearly $120 million in transportation projects slipped in by state legislators without formal evaluation. That helped starve arts spending. The Department of State had ranked 489 cultural, museum, and other arts projects worth $41.6 million, but the Legislature […]

Michael MolineMay 29, 2017

Of the missteps the Legislature committed this year, the most egregious was a failure to live up to its promises that the budget process would be more open and transparent than ever before, according to Florida TaxWatch chief Dominic Calabro. In an interview tied to TaxWatch’s release of its annual list of budgetary “turkeys,” Calabro praised […]

Daniel TilsonAugust 25, 2014

Here in August 2014, 50 years after the historic “Mississippi Summer of 1964” helped propel America forward in search of Civil Rights progress, I’m literally brought to tears by what has happened in Ferguson, Mo. They’re tears of both grief and rage, just like they were 50 years ago. My first cousin Karen (now a […]

Tag: TaxWatch CEO Dominic Calabro
Donald Trump shifts gears and taps Pam Bondi for AG.

Florida TaxWatch finds $147.5 million in ‘turkeys’ in state budget

Legislature failed transparency test this year, TaxWatch chief Dominic Calabro says

Daniel Tilson: Ferguson shows how far we’ve come — in wrong direction