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Staff ReportsJuly 31, 2018

Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis cheered a U.S. Senate vote Tuesday extending the National Flood Insurance Program through Nov. 30, the traditional end date for the hurricane season. “The extension comes while talk continues about reforming the program,” Patronis said in a written statement. “Any discussion must include keeping rates affordable for Floridians. As the largest […]

Ryan NicolJuly 26, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has earned the endorsement of Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) as he continues his campaign to oust incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Scott, running for U.S. Senate after two terms as Florida’s governor, thanked the group for its endorsement. “Over the past seven and a half years, we’ve worked hard to improve the […]

Ryan NicolJuly 25, 2018

A new survey out shows Gov. Rick Scott leading incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson by four percentage points in the race for U.S. Senate. Scott earns 44 percent of the vote compared to Nelson’s 40 percent, according to the most recent results by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative. Those numbers are nearly […]

Scott PowersJuly 23, 2018

Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Gov. Rick Scott unveiled the next plank in his “Make Washington Work” platform, a proposal to force U.S. senators to work five days a week and a lot more of the year if they want to draw their full federal salaries. The proposal takes issue with the standard procedures of […]

Ryan NicolJuly 13, 2018

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is out with new fundraising numbers in his campaign to hold off a tough challenge by Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Those numbers show just how tough it will be, with Nelson trailing Scott big-time in the money race. Nelson’s campaign says he raised $4.4 million in the second quarter of […]

Scott PowersJune 12, 2018

Florida’s Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson joined forces to introduce a resolution in the U.S. Senate noting the survivors and commemorating the victims of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting that took place two years ago Tuesday. The resolution refers to the massacre both as a terrorist attack and a […]

Danny McAuliffeMay 28, 2018

Social media giant Facebook recently unveiled its database of candidate and issue spending. It archives all political ads dating back to May 7. The information provides insights to what extent candidates are prioritizing digital spending on Facebook along with its subsidiary Instagram. The changes are a direct result of Facebook coming under scrutiny for giving way […]

Danny McAuliffeMay 23, 2018

One of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s constituents is claiming the Florida Democrat violated federal laws by campaigning during a recent event billed as official business. The complaint, filed Tuesday by Alan L. Swartz, a Pinellas accountant, takes umbrage with an April 6 townhall held at the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, or PSTA, in St. Petersburg. […]

Phil AmmannMay 8, 2018

A Sarasota Democratic leader is targeting Gov. Rick Scott, accusing his month-old U.S. Senate campaign of violating federal election law. Sarasota County Democratic Executive Committee chair JoAnne DeVries filed the Federal Election Commission complaint Tuesday, claiming Scott hid campaign donors and therefore leading to conflicts of interest. According to the complaint, Scott’s campaign emailed donors as […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 11, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott, a newly-minted candidate for Senate, faces his first Federal Elections Commission complaint a day after his campaign launch. In comments Wednesday in Jacksonville, Scott disclaimed responsibility for the issue when we asked him if he had used the New Republican PAC, a federal Super PAC, to skirt campaign finance laws by fundraising without formally […]

Tag: U.S. Senate

Jimmy Patronis cheers extension of National Flood Insurance Program

AIF backs Rick Scott for Senate

FAU poll sees U.S. Senate race steady since May

Rick Scott: U.S. Senators should be working full time

Bill Nelson raises less than half of Rick Scott’s totals in second quarter

Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson introduce Pulse remembrance resolution in U.S. Senate

A brief history of time: Here’s what Florida candidates are doing on Facebook

Complaint alleges Bill Nelson campaigned on Senate business

Sarasota Democrat files election law complaint against Rick Scott

Rick Scott disclaims responsibility for federal elections complaint about ‘New Republican PAC’