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• RPOF blasts Gelber for attacking Scott over Heritage Insurance and $52 million deal; drags in Crist

  The Republican Party of Florida came to Gov. Rick Scott's defense Friday after former state Senator Dan Gelber wrote a letter asking the governor to return a $110,000 contribution he received from an insurance startup that could get $52 million from the state-run insurance giant.

  RPOF slammed Gelber, saying [...]

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• RPOF blasts Gelber for attacking Scott over Heritage Insurance and $52 million deal; pulls in Crist

  The Republican Party of Florida came to Gov. Rick Scott's defense Friday after former state Senator Dan Gelber wrote a letter asking the governor to return a $110,000 contribution he received from an insurance startup that could get $52 million from the state-run insurance giant.

  RPOF slammed Gelber, saying [...]

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• Weatherford 'highly concerned' about Heritage deal

  The list of lawmakers criticizing Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for a $52 million takeout deal continues to grow, as House Speaker Will Weatherford said Friday that he had "serious concerns" about the plan.

  Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Citizens did not provide sufficient notice to the Legislature before quickly approving the $52 [...]

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• Weatherford: I'm 'highly concerned' about $52 million Heritage insurance deal

  The list of lawmakers criticizing Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for a $52 million takeout deal continues to grow, as House Speaker Will Weatherford said Friday that he had "serious concerns" about the plan.

  Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Citizens did not provide sufficient notice to the Legislature before quickly approving the $52 [...]

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• Gov. Rick Scott to sign texting while driving ban Tuesday in Miami

  Gov. Rick Scott is signing the texting while driving bill (SB 52) at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning High School in Miami, but the state law doesn't take effect until Oct. 1.

  The bill prohibits drivers from manually typing or entering multiple letters, numbers, symbols or other [...]

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• Rick Scott presses university boards to oppose tuition increase

  Gov. Rick Scott today sent letters to the boards of trustees of Florida’s 12 universities urging them to forgo any tuition increase this year.

  Scott already has vetoed a 3 percent tuition increase included in the state budget, but some people believe universities have the power to increase tuition 1.7 percent [...]

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• Fasano questions 'suspicious timing' of $52 million Heritage deal

  Rep. Mike Fasano is the latest official to raise questions about a $52 million take-out deal between an upstart St. Petersburg insurance company and Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

  Fasano, R-New Port Richey, penned a letter to the state’s Insurance Commissioner on Friday questioning whether Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance has already violated a May [...]

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• Heritage deal draws political fire for gov: Gelber says 'the whole thing smells'

  A fast-paced deal to give a startup insurance company with ties to former CFO Tom Gallagher a $52 million take-out deal has drawn some political heat, as expected, for Gov. Rick Scott.

  Former state Sen. Dan Gelber, a Miami Beach Democrat, sent a letter to the governor -- and copied [...]

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• The story of the man who links the Boston Marathon bombing to Florida

  As most everything of major national significance, the Boston Marathon bombing eventually had a link to Florida. Here's our tale:

  Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in his modest gated community in Kissimmee.

  They [...]

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• Despite hundreds of insurance violations, president of upstart company could get $52 million deal from Citizens

  Before launching an upstart insurance firm and donating $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign, the president of Heritage Property and Casualty Corp. repeatedly ran into trouble with Florida’s insurance regulators at previous companies he led. 

  Now, one of those insurance regulators is Heritage’s chief lobbyist, and the St. Petersburg company might receive up to $52 million in [...]

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