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• "Blood in the water"

  Joe Henderson: "Rick Scott fooled us once by being elected governor of our great state, so maybe he can do it again."

  And maybe pigs can fly.

  "There was already blood in the water for Scott's re-election chances, and Wednesday's abrupt resignation of his second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, opened the spigot" [...]
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• "Jeb!", The Original Teabagger

  Jeb Bush, who was a teabagger before teabaggery was cool, and one of the most divisive politicians in Florida history*, has the temerity to claim this morning that "President Obama won a second term in the White House in part by 'dividing the country'". "Jeb Bush: Obama won reelection" [...]
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• "Jeb!" apologists out in force

  Marc Caputo swoons over Jebbie's "must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the mind of one of the GOP’s top idea men. Its roughly 250 pages move at a surprisingly quick pace."

  Caputo relegates what less sycophantic observers have called Jebbie's "spinning excuses — and seeking to undermine" [...]

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• "Factors holding back Jeb Bush’s presidential aspirations"

  Jeff Henderson: "There are other factors holding Jeb Bush’s presidential aspirations back besides his brother’s legacy."

  Florida could have another favorite son in 2016 in the shape of Rubio. In most of the early polls, Rubio is doing better among potential Republican primary voters than Bush is. As large a [...]

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• Clinton way ahead of Rubio among Latino voters

  "Hillary Clinton holds a dominant lead among Latino voters with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in a head to head matchup for president, according to a new national poll that could impact a fierce debate within the GOP over immigration."

  The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University, tested a variety of possible [...]

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• Weatherford's "arrogant power play"

  The Tampa Bay Times: "Let's get this straight. House Speaker Will Weatherford opposes accepting billions in federal dollars to expand Medicaid and recalls that his family relied on a safety net to pay hospital bills for his brother — and that safety net turned out to be Medicaid. This is" [...]
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• "Jeb!" flip flops on immigration reform, rejects Rubio's path to citizenship

  Update: "Jeb Bush is back in the spotlight — and thinking about 2016", "Harry Reid: Jeb Bush not a leader on immigration. Rubio is." and "Jeb Bush working hard to be heard".

  In his run up to the 2016 GOP presidential primary, Jebbie Bush is plainly re-establishing [...]

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• Declining jobless rate not a function of new jobs, but fewer people in the labor pool

  "As the state unemployment rate inches down, Gov. Rick Scott rarely misses an opportunity to broadcast the news, sometimes blasting out four or five news releases in a day — such as this one from January's jobless report."

  "Florida's unemployment rate is down to 8 percent, its lowest in four years." [...]

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• Firefighters battle "fierce wildfires" as torpid Republican legislators plot to gut their pensions

  "A rapidly growing wildfire of at least 1,000 acres forced evacuations and shut down a section of Interstate 95 near Ormond Beach on Saturday as firefighters battled strong gusts of wind fanning and spreading the flames."

  The fire went from zero percent contained most of the day to 75 percent contained [...]

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• Crist brags that Harry Sargeant "remains a close friend"

  "Harry Sargeant is a Republican financial powerhouse, but congressional investigators have called him a ‘war profiteer.’"

  He has long supported Crist while also helping former party chairman Jim Greer, despite the animosity between Greer and Crist since Greer was charged with stealing money from the GOP in 2010. Crist, now a [...]

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