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  • Video: Rick Scott's stimulus flip flop

    Gov. Rick Scott is against Obama's stimulus program. But he allowed $370m of the federal money to stay in the state budget. And he doesn't really explain why.

    ' [...]
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  • Florida is the 'Southern sanctuary state' for illegal immigration, says Palm Beach GOP chairman

    Palm Beach County Republican Chairman Sid Dinerstein gives the GOP majority in the Legislature an A+ for session, but says more could have been done. From his June newsletter:

    (W)hen you’re sitting with a Tea Party Governor, an all Republican cabinet, two thirds majorities in both houses (Lizbeth put us over the [...]

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  • Rick Scott bashes Obama's stimulus -- but allows c. $370m to stay in state budget

    Gov. Rick Scott campaigned against President Obama’s “failed stimulus” program – yet the freshman politician kept almost $370 million of the federal cash in the Florida budget he signed last week.

    Scott’s decision to keep the stimulus money stands out in a year when the governor touted record budget vetoes of [...]

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  • Video of Democrats getting booted from Gov. Rick Scott's budget event

    Couple interesting things to watch for in this video:

    The sheriff's deputy explains at the start that you can have signs at the event, but the signs have to be in "support." The deputy says he's there on official duty and just doing what he's told, but never says who his [...]

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  • Feds clear Fair Districts changes

    The U.S. Department of Justice sent word today that it saw no problems with the so-called Fair Districts constitutional amendments, which reduce lawmakers' power to draw voting districts.

    The ruling doesn't stop a lawsuit aimed at blocking the state from implementing the voter-approved amendment. But it does cut the legs out [...]

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  • Scott keeps his promise on state pensions, PolitiFact Florida finds

    Rick Scott didn't get all of the pension reforms he wanted for state employees during the 2011 legislative session.

    But he got a lot.

    For the first time in decades, state employees will be required to redirect part of their salaries to pay for part of their retirement benefits. Beginning July 1, [...]

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  • Scott signs bill forcing drug tests on welfare recipients

    Floridians will have to submit urine, blood or hair samples for drug testing before receiving cash benefits from the state, under a bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into law today.

    "The goal of this is to make sure we don't waste taxpayers' money," Scott said. "And hopefully more people will focus on not [...]

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  • Governor Scott Changes Position on Education Funding

    Governor Rick Scott last week cut $615-million in state spending. In a reversal of his previous position, the governor is now encouraging the Legislature to put some of that money back into education. Scott signed the state budget in a Central Florida retirement community under the banner "Less Government Waste, More [...]

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  • Cop shootout, race issues & garbage sully Miami Beach Memorial Day

    For years, Miami Beach residents have not-so-silently resented the Memorial Day crowds that crowd the city and it's tough not to notice that many of the visitors are African-American -- or "urban," hence the politically correct nickname "Urban Weekend."

    But the racial scab has been ripped off amid the garbage-lined streets [...]

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  • Mystery robocall about Hialeah prompts backlash

    Days before last week’s Miami-Dade mayoral election, some county voters answered the phone and heard a woman’s recorded voice sneering about the county’s most Cuban enclave: Hialeah.

    Five times she said it. Hialeah.

    To outsiders, it was meant to set off not-in-my-backyard alarm bells. To proud Hialeahns, it felt like a slap in [...]

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