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• Crist Appointee Key Vote in Anti-Teacher, Anti-Public Employee Decision

  In a "major victory" for Gov. Rick Scott, with the key vote coming from Charlie Chiles appointee Justice Barbara J. Pariente, "the Florida Supreme Court narrowly ruled against state workers in allowing the state to retain the 3 percent levy on their salaries to offset the state’s investment into the" [...]
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• Rubio's Immigration plan is "remarkably similar" to Obama's

  Last week we touched on how Rubio's proposed immigration reforms amounted to "Self-Immolation".

  After all, Rubio's immigration ideas seem awfully ... familiar.

  Mother Jones', Adam Serwer writes that, although Marco Rubio hasn't introduced any actual immigration reform legislation,

  conservative pundits have showered Rubio with praise. The Washington [...]

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• Payroll tax pushed by GOP hurts Florida's working poor

  "It's a particularly painful blow in Volusia and Flagler counties, where wages tend to be low. Median earnings for Volusia workers were $25,182 in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey."

  The payroll tax holiday was part of President Barack Obama's stimulus plan to boost the economy. It' [...]

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• The Self-Immolation of Marco Rubio

  Marco Rubio is apparently counting on the teabaggers and other assorted wingnuts that control the Republican Party presidential nomination process to have forgotten his just announced immigration program when he formally begins his long, slow march for the GOP presidential nomination.

  To be sure, much of the Republican base will [...]

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• "The Joad Family of Left Turns"

  Daniel Ruth: "This was a thing of fife and drum beauty:"

  Republicans and Democrats putting aside their petty, partisan disharmony to come together as comrades-in-chicanery for the good of their pals.

  Cue the amber waves of greed.

  It was probably a tip-off that the bipartisan vote in Washington last week [...]

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• Caught lying, Scott flip-flops

  "What a difference a day and a few assumptions make."

  On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's office defended a questionable Dec. 17 report that Florida taxpayers would be on the hook for nearly $26 billion over 10 years to expand Medicaid as part of President Barack Obama's health care plan.

  Late Wednesday, [...]

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• Scott is not entitled to his own facts

  "Gov. Rick Scott repeatedly cites a state analysis that says the federal health care law would cost Florida taxpayers $26 billion over the next 10 years. PolitiFact Florida says he’s wrong."

  But using a study to say that the expansion of Medicaid would cost Florida taxpayers "over $26 billion" is False.

  "[...]
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• "Scott doesn't understand why everybody's not a Republican"

  Daniel Ruth: "Gov. Rick Scott was in Orlando over the weekend rallying state Republicans to even higher levels of estrangement from the body politic. You know you're in trouble when the top of your 2014 ticket is polling somewhere between replacement NFL referees and Lance Armstrong."

  "I don't understand why everybody's'" [...]

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• "Scott doesn't understand why everybody's not a Republican"

  Daniel Ruth: "Gov. Rick Scott was in Orlando over the weekend rallying state Republicans to even higher levels of estrangement from the body politic. You know you're in trouble when the top of your 2014 ticket is polling somewhere between replacement NFL referees and Lance Armstrong."

  "I don't understand why everybody's'" [...]

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• "The grand jury’s conundrum"

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  Myriam Marquez: "The Dec. 19 grand jury report delivers one more warning about Florida’s broken elections system. Will the Legislature take it seriously this time?"

  A similar warning and recommendations by another county grand jury after the 1997 Miami elections got a big yawn from Tally. Yet those elections resulted [...]

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