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• Florida TaxWatch bags 107 budget 'turkeys' worth $107 million

  Florida TaxWatch finds 107 line-item projects in the new state budget totaling $107 million that it says Gov. Rick Scott should veto because they bypassed the Legislature's own standards for transparency and competitiveness.

  They run the gamut of state spending, from improvements at colleges to programs for the disabled to renovations [...]

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• After Scott priority fails to get 80 votes, legislative staff flip-flop on supermajority clause

  After Gov. Rick Scott’s highly prioritized manufacturing tax cut passed the Florida Legislature without receiving a two-thirds vote majority, legislative staff analysts have had a change of heart and now believe such a supermajority was not necessary. 

  Last month, staff analysts in the Florida Senate said emphatically that a two-thirds vote was required, because the proposed [...]

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• Safety net hospitals scrambling to prevent $65 million Sott veto

  Gov. Rick Scott may veto $65 million in hospital Medicaid funding, although safety net hospitals are mustering all their resources in order to change his mind.

  The money is related to the state's transition to a new formula for paying hospitals for Medicaid, one that depends on services provided to patients [...]

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• Gov. Rick Scott to keynote Broward GOP dinner May 20

  Gov. Rick Scott will give the keynote address at the Broward Republican Executive Committee's annual Lincoln Day dinner May 20 -- and then he flys to Chile later that night.

  The gathering is the big event of the year for Broward Republicans to raise money and get pumped about helping their [...]

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• The Miami Dolphins had "no realistic path to victory" at ballot box

  @MarcACaputo

  The only poll that matters is on Election Day.

  It’s a common cliché espoused by campaigns when surveys aren’t going their way.

  But what happens when Election Day only has partial results and you lost big? Downplay the results.

  “We would have won,” said Eric Jotkoff, spokesman for the Miami Dolphins star-crossed campaign [...]

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• Report: Florida has one the nation’s highest business tax burdens

  Florida, long-touted as a business friendly state with no income tax, has one of the nation’s highest business tax burdens, according to a new report from a boutique economic consulting firm. 

  The report says Florida has the nation’s 6th highest business tax burden, citing high costs for property taxes, sales taxes, public utilities and other [...]

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• Cuban-American lawyer group: Grassley amendment bad for Cuban refugees

  One of the least-talked about but most-significant aspects of the nation's immigration debate is the outsized influence of Cuban-Americans. Sen. Marco Rubio is helping push the immigration bill with Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Ted Cruz is essentially fighting them. In the House, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is one of the [...]

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• Defeated Miami-Dade judge candidate says he never hired Hialeah boletera

  via @msanchezMIA and @kikeflor

  After having learned that his name appears next to the amount of $1,500 in a notebook kept by an alleged Hialeah ballot broker, lawyer Ricardo Corona said Tuesday that he never hired anyone to collect absentee ballots on his behalf during his unsuccessful campaign for a Miami-Dade [...]

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• FAU President Saunders resigns amid controversies

  After a series of very public controversies, Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane Saunders resigned Tuesday, the school announced today.

  Saunders faced a series of controversies in the past year, including defending a professor who asked students to stomp on a paper after writing the name "Jesus" and a [...]

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• Will Weatherford on failed Dolphins stadium vote: Told ya so

  @MarcACaputo

  Last night's crushing defeat of the Miami Dolphins stadium effort was a matter of some vindication for House Speaker Will Weatherford, who has taken a measure of heat from the club and a few fans for refusing to resurrect a bill that would have fully authorized a referendum.

  As a result, [...]

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