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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 31, 2017

Sen. Jeff Brandes said he plans to continue his push for criminal justice reform, advancing a multi-year process to take a closer look at the state’s criminal justice system. Brandes, who has made criminal justice reform a top priority, was in Washington, D.C. last week for the Right on Crime annual summit. The conservative-leaning organization […]

Rosanne DunkelbergerFebruary 27, 2017

People don’t come to Florida’s Capitol without an agenda, and when they want to share it with the world, you can bet they’ll plan a news conference/media availability to share it via the Fourth Estate. Wednesday was particularly rich with such events; I was assigned to go to ‘em all. As a babe in these […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 23, 2015

The chair of the Senate’s Transportation Committee has filed legislation to create a central fleet management system for the state’s nearly 25,000 vehicles. State Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican, filed the bill (SB 326), which includes an option to privatize management of the state’s fleet if it can be shown it would save taxpayer […]

Ryan RaySeptember 17, 2015

A day after Sen. Jeff Brandes chaired a committee which spent half its time receiving a presentation on the laurels of electric cars, the St. Petersburg took six groups of reporters and legislators for a demonstration spin around the Capitol in a brand new Tesla on Thursday. The Transportation Committee chairman led an exposition sponsored by […]

Florence SnyderJune 13, 2015

If only the Legislature could get it up as fast as a car made by Elon Musk. “Holy s$#@, where’s my heart monitor?!” said Tallahassee Magazine Editor Rosanne Dunkelberger, a full ten minutes after our test drive ended. In the driver’s seat was Orlando-based Tesla representative Kevin Leyva. His mother can be very proud of […]

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