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• LeMieux calls for oil-spill cleanup fund

  
  George LeMieux British Petroleum should establish a billion-dollar “evergreen fund” to help coastal communities in Florida and elsewhere contain damage from the oil spill spreading along the Gulf Coast, Florida Senator George LeMieux said on Tuesday. “We need dollars right now in the Gulf states to mitigate and prevent [...]
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• Crist calls special session to ban oil drilling

  Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday he would convene special session of the Florida Legislature to permanently ban oil drilling in state waters, which Republican leaders quickly decried as a political gambit by Crist to improve his chances in the U.S. Senate campaign. The session, which would come as oil from the [...]
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• Floridians welcome drilling oversight

  Florida critics of expanded offshore oil drilling welcome the Obama administration’s plan to shake up the federal agency that is supposed to keep an eye on energy production. The administration plans to split the Minerals Management Service, which regulates the industry while also collecting more than $13 billion a year in [...]
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• Florida poll on immigration disputed

  A leading immigration advocate – as well as some readers of this blog -- object to the wording of a Florida poll released this week that indicates voter opposition to immigration reform. Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, called it a “horribly worded poll,” which he says falsely [...]
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• Crist eyes May 24-28 for special session on drilling

  Gov. Charlie Crist is considering calling a special session for a constitutional ban on oil drilling in state waters as soon as the week of May 24, he told reporters. The session, in the wake of the BP oil spill that could threaten Florida’s coast, would include the permanent ban on [...]
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• Florida poll bad news for immigration reformers

  Florida voters are inclined to oppose immigration reform, a bad sign for those pushing to overhaul the current dysfunctional system. A Mason-Dixon poll released on Monday found that 45 percent of Florida voters oppose reform that would give unauthorized immigrants a chance to get legal status. Only 39 percent [...]
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• How many burritos does $290 at Moe's buy?

  By Aaron Deslatte and Josh Hafenbrack The Republican Party of Florida has dumped thousands of pages of credit card records on hapless media scribes today, and a few gems have already surfaced sorting through the paper in our very un-scientific manner: Former state Sen. Dan Webster, a Winter Garden Republican who just [...]
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• Florida poll shows voters reject offshore drilling

  The specter of oil-soaked wildlife caught in a massive spill drifting toward a vulnerable coastline has reversed the public’s opinion of offshore drilling, at least in Florida. Only 35 percent of Florida voters support offshore drilling near the shores of their state, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released [...]
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• Florida Republican Party: Credit records will cost you

  TALLAHASSEE — This is a bit of inside baseball, but the Republican Party of Florida is trying to make good on a deadline today to release all the party credit card statements from the era of ousted party chairman Jim Greer. Sort of. The GOP’s executive board met two weeks ago [...]
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• Florida Republican Party: Credit records will cost you

  TALLAHASSEE — This is a bit of inside baseball, but the Republican Party of Florida is trying to make good on a deadline today to release all the party credit card statements from the era of ousted party chairman Jim Greer. Sort of. The GOP’s executive board met two weeks ago [...]
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