Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Florida politics ’

In the spirit of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, deadbeats), the sick-time advocates behind a current petition effort aimed at getting Gov. Rick Scott to veto HB 655 – the anti-local-control, anti-sick-time measure passed by the Florida House and Senate last week – have put together a YouTube video of their own iteration...
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Now that Tallahassee – and, by proxy, the entire state of Florida – has been deprived of the oxygen required to accept more than one million people onto Medicaid insurance rolls via $51 billion in free federal money, everybody’s favorite personification of beige (space beige, but still beige) is joining state Democrats in pressing...
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In a repeat of last year’s down-the-middle reasoning from the Florida Senate, today the smarter side of the legislative coin decided to knock Jeb Bush’s corporate education volley out of consideration just before this year’s session closes on Friday. You may recall that the shoot-em-up state House hadn’t been nearly as thoughtful earlier this...
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So, a bodyslam from across the ropes for our economy, then! We sent our intern Shelby England – ON HIS LAST DAY, SIGH – to cover Gov. Rick Scott’s appearance in at the Full Sail-adjacent new WWE violence complex, and this is what he brought back. You might know by now that Gov. Scott...
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This morning, Equality Florida published the testimony I had intended to give before the Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs in support of Senate Bill 196 on March 12. That hearing was postponed when Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, fell unexpectedly ill. Today, the bill will have another hearing at 3:15 p.m....
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Schadenfreude has a new pronunciation today, and that is DOR-WERTH (or, rather, state Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Lake Mary). The once and future king – actually, speaker-designate – was unseated today by Mike Clelland following a long night and long morning of number crunching by the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections office. Below, the not-at-all-pleased-with-itself...
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Stop the presses! After a long day – and, let’s face it, a long summer – of pavement pounding, the activist groups comprising Citizens for a Greater Orange County finally got a taste of victory today when their hard-fought battle to get an earned sick time measure on the Nov. 6 ballot finally got...
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With everybody still atwitter about Saturday’s announcement of “next President of the United States” Paul Ryan – and everybody similarly perplexed at Mitt Romney’s alleged Orlando stop highlighting the profitability of foreclosure on Monday that wasn’t – the Democratic National Committee put tires to tarmac on Sunday afternoon for a reprise of its “Romney...
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So, while we were foaming at the mouth on WMFE yesterday – and foaming at the fingers in Happytown this week – about Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll (who?) coming out claiming that black women who look like her don’t have lesbian relationships, it appears that somebody in the Carroll camp finally crept out of...
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  So let’s get the silly stuff out of the way first, because all news should be led with silly stuff, right? As I posted on my Facebook account earlier today, “You know it’s a rough Monday when you’re buttonholing Marco Rubio next to the Bounty paper towels at BJ’s. Just sayin’.” And a...
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