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• Sen. Sachs Rents, Votes From Lobbyist’s Apt.

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  In another example of how lobbyists and Tallahassee lawmakers are entwined.

  Once again it involves Democratic state Sen. Maria Sachs and leading lobbyist Judy Stern. 

  Maria Sachs: Lobbyist’s Friend

  Sachs is registered to vote from an apartment that she rents from Stern.

  The senator told the Miami Herald that she has [...]

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• Fields: On Passover, Don’t Gimme That Ol’ Time Religion

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  On Tuesday I attended a Passover Seder at my cousin’s home.

  It was good food and company.  If you have never attended one I encourage you to do so. If you are Christian let me remind you that The Last Supper was a Seder.

  The guidebook for conducting a Seder [...]

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• Brow Rep Leader Asked to Support Gay Marriage

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  You have to hand it to Mitch Ceasar.   The Democratic chair has a sense of humor.

  Ceasar today asked Broward Republican Chair Tom Truex to join him in supporting same sex marriage.

  Since he surely knew what the answer would be, it was Ceasar’s way of tweaking the newly-elected [...]

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• Tally Special Interest Fight Heats Up After Lobbyist Jailed

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  A classic decades-long Tallahassee special interest fight is heating up again now that a chief lobbyist is in jail.

  Its the optometrists vs. ophthalmologists.

  Dr. Alan Mendelsohn, a Hollywood eye doctor, was the ophthalmologists’ chief weapon in Tallahassee for years. Now he is in a federal prison.

  Where to draw the border [...]

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• Early Campaigns: Some Work, Some Don’t

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Candidates should get into races early.

  That’s a maxim of political experts.  The earliest candidates, they say, get their hands on the donations first.  They sew up endorsements. All this serves to discourage opponents from challenging them.

  Does the tactic work?

  Sometimes yes.  Sometimes no.

  Early races often only benefit political consultants, [...]

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• “Help Me Howard’s” Family Wins Lotto

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  They didn’t need Howard to help them.

  Howard “Help Me Howard” Finkelstein’s mother, sister and daughter were big winners in Saturday’s Powerball.  They were part of a team of Realtors who won $1 million by getting all the numbers except one.

  Finkelstein, Broward’s public defender and WSVN News’ host of [...]

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• GOP Struggles To Win Minorities While Battling Them In Court

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  On March 18th  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus announced a $10,000.000 public relations campaign to improve GOP relations with minorities.

  Could be a positive for the GOP except for one thing….

  At the same time, across town, Republican lawyers, were in The Supreme Court defending an Arizona statute that, [...]

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• County Laughs Off 911 Dispute

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  County government is really serious about the 911 issue!

  Below are the two news stories on the front 911 page on the county’s website, but they took it down after this ran.  The page doesn’t mention one word about the county and cities’ dispute.

  The front page does list just about every [...]

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• Voters Dislike Scott, But Really Dislike Legislature

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Voters don’t like the job that Gov. Rick Scott is doing.

  But they really don’t like the state Legislature’s job performance.

  Two polls this week have found that Scott is trailing potential Democratic nominee Charlie Crist and others badly in a match-up for governor.

  What the Quinnipiac poll also found is [...]

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• Guest Column: Equal Rights For All Includes Gays

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  BY ELROY JOHN

   

  “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” the pastor barked. The small, mostly black congregation surrounding me erupted in laughter. I chuckled along with them. I was only about ten or eleven at the time, but even then it was a familiar theme. I was reared [...]

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