Jacob OglesFebruary 6, 2019
5min530
A constitutional amendment could impose 8-year limits
Tag: term limitsSupporters celebrate the opening of a wheel-chair accessible playground at Anastasia State Park. Image via Florida State Parks Foundation.
Jacob OglesFebruary 6, 2019
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 23, 2019
3min638
Scott signaled support for term limits early in his Senate campaign
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 23, 2018
7min397
Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Crist and candidate Todd Marks sent out a dual-funded campaign mailer this week claiming Crist’s challenger, Mariella Smith, and Marks’ opponent, Kimberly Overman, support an $18 billion tax hike. Except there’s no factual support for that claim. “It’s a complete lie,” Smith said of the claim. “I just don’t know how they sleep […]
Jacob OglesSeptember 9, 2018
5min419
Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott today unveiled his 10-point “Make Washington Work” agenda as he kicked off a bus tour in Panama City. Included in Scott’s plan? Term limits on lawmakers, an end to pay raises and rules barring lawmakers from taking on jobs as lobbyists for decade after their time in office ends. As […]
Drew WilsonJune 4, 2018
3min323
A trio of school board members on Monday announced the launch of a new political committee backing Amendment 8, which would impose term limits on county school board seats among other changes to the K-12 education system. The committee, “8isGREAT,” is headed up by Collier County School Board Member Erika Donalds, who sponsored the proposal […]
Peter SchorschMay 29, 2018
3min282
Secretary of State Ken Detzner has filed a Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit filed by House District 64 GOP candidate Terry Power, who is demanding incumbent state Rep. Jamie Grant be removed as a candidate, citing the state’s term limits. The Secretary filed to dismiss the lawsuit for “failure to state a cause of action, failure to join a necessary party, and […]
Jim RosicaMay 2, 2018
7min418
Senate President Joe Negron tendered his resignation from elected office to Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday, to be effective Nov. 6, “the same day his term as Senate President ends.” Despite his current and final term not ending till 2020, Negron had telegraphed his decision his recent months in ‘exit interviews’ he gave to state […]
Joe HendersonApril 23, 2018
6min212
Rick Scott’s greatest political gift has been perfect timing. He proved that in 2010 when he tapped into Floridians’ angst over the recession with an oft-repeated simple slogan: “Let’s Get To Work.” Even after the first election, you could ask him about the weather or the NFL draft and his answer was always the same: […]
Scott PowersApril 16, 2018
1min1034
Rick Scott has found something else to talk about on the campaign trail: term limits. The Republican Florida governor’s first television commercial in his campaign to be elected U.S. Senator is not about his calling-card issue, jobs, but on a new issue his campaign hopes to use against Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson — term limits. […]
Mitch PerryMarch 7, 2018
4min473
Rep. Jamie Grant’s Republican challenger in the House District 64 primary has filed a lawsuit demanding Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner remove Grant as a candidate, saying he has violated the state’s term limits. “I believe that Rep. Grant, who was first elected to the Florida House in November 2010, is ineligible to run for reelection in the […]