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• Xavier Suarez wins Miami-Dade commission race

  He had to wait two extra days, but former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez was declared the winner of a Miami-Dade County Commission race Thursday, after an appeals court ruled in dramatic fashion that the suppressed results from Tuesday’s election should be made public.

  Suarez defeated Julio Robaina, a former state lawmaker [...]

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• Debbie Wasserman Schultz and foreign cars

  The Hill says the new chair of the national Democratic party -- who ripped Republicans today for not backing President Barack Obama's auto bailout and suggested they'd have Americans "driving foreign cars" -- apparently drives a foreign car herself.

   "If it were up to the candidates for president on the [...]

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• Tim Pawlenty's Florida team and its Jeb Bush ties

  GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty -- who made Florida one of his first stops on his kickoff campaign -- has announced a Florida campaign team -- with a number of Friends of Jeb Bush.

  Phil Handy will serve as Pawlenty''s Florida state chairman, as well as a national finance co-chair. Handy was Bush's [...]

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• Wasserman Schultz and West mind meld? Not so much

  The Broward Democrat -- who this morning said she backed President Obama's Afghanistan policy and that her constituents are "willing to give his plan an opportunity to work" -- voted this afternoon along with other top House Democrats to send Obama a strong message: speed up U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.

  Though the [...]

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• Scott appoints former PSC director Mary Bane as energy advisor

  

  Gov. Rick Scott, who proclaimed during his campaign for governor that he didn't believe in the science of global warming and urged the state to open its coastal waters to oil drilling, has used his veto message to announce a new-found [...]

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• Governor Wields Veto Pen Before Signing Budget

  
  
  Gov. Rick Scott signed Florida's $69-billion budget Thursday, using his line item veto power to chop more than half of a billion dollars in spending. Many of the cuts were for higher education construction projects, and health and human service programs. WLRN-Miami Herald News Reporter Gina Jordan [...]

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• Scott's vetoes also aim at five conforming bills

  In addition to the record dollar amount of line item vetoes today, Gov. Rick Scott also vetoed five budget-related bills. They include:

  SB 2118 -- Which would have raised court costs and fees for defendants found guilty or who plead guilty to pay for FDLE costs of a statewide crime lab [...]

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• Cannon takes umbrage with Scott's "new found emphasis" on K-12 education | More reactions from lawmakers

  House Speaker Dean Cannon just issued this critical statement about Gov. Rick Scott's budget vetoes and comments on restoring education funding:

  “The people of Florida sent us to Tallahassee to make hard choices during difficult times. We produced a responsible state budget that prioritizes the critical needs of our state, [...]

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• Rick Scott vetoes record $615m from budget

  At a campaign-style event, Gov. Rick Scott made himself Florida’s new veto king Thursday when he axed $615 million from the state budget before signing it.

  The biggest target of the veto pen: A $305 million reduction for land buys. But the money might not be real because the state would only [...]

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• $615 million veto list here (transportation trust fund raid stays)

  Here's the veto list from Rick Scott

  Download 05.26.2011-Veto-List

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