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• Weatherford names Mears as chief of staff

  Incoming House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, has confirmed that Kathy Mears will be his chief of staff.
  
  The announcement confirms a May Times/Herald report that Mears, who held high-level advisory posts for Gov. Charlie Crist and Senate presidents Tom Lee and Ken Pruitt, was a top pick [...]

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• Allen West moves out of Broward

  It's official: Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West no longer lives in Broward. West is now a resident of Palm Beach Gardens. His spokeswoman wouldn't say whether West bought a home or is renting.

  "We do not discuss the personal details of his residence," Angela Melvin wrote in an email.

  We didn't find [...]

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• Attorney General Pam Bondi defends Florida’s voter purge on Fox News

  It took us a couple days to get our hands on the video, but we finally were able to track down Attorney General Pam Bondi’s interview from Tuesday with Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly. The topic was the Department of Justice’s objection to the timing of Florida’s voter [...]

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• Obama campaign ramps up South Florida Jewish outreach with Lew visit

  President Obama's chief of staff, Jack Lew, is in South Florida today to participate in the campaign’s Jewish community outreach, the campaign says: "Lew, an observant Jew who is actively involved in his own community, will speak to participants about how to turn out Jewish voters in their respective neighborhoods [...]

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• Efficiency task force recycles ideas, offers new promise to save billions

  If Florida government truly were efficient, universities would offer a full complement of classes all summer. Judges would be given more flexibility when sentencing offenders. Inmates would get vocational training and literacy skills in prison. And legislators would not pass laws that tie the hands of state officials when negotiating [...]

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• Connie Mack: I don't need to debate Republicans in Senate primary. It's over

  Basking in high poll numbers and the major endorsement of Gov. Jeb Bush, Connie Mack has declined an invitation to participate in a statewide prime-time televised debate, effectively declaring the GOP U.S. Senate primary over.

  "It’s clear the race for the U.S. Senate in Florida is now between Connie Mack, the Republican, and Bill Nelson, [...]

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• Rep. Rooney to DOJ: Why are you allowing potential voter fraud?

  A letter from Rep. Tom Rooney to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder over his agency's decision to fight Florida's noncitizen voter purge:

  Florida has uncovered a widespread problem of illegal and erroneous voter registration, exposing as many as 182,000 registered voters as non-U.S. citizens. The Department of Justice has an [...]
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• Rep. Bilirakis to DHS: Why won't you help FL with noncitizen voter hunt?

  Like Congressman Jeff Miller last month, fellow Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis is putting pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to explain why it has refused Florida access to a citizenship database to help the state spot noncitizen voters on the rolls. The letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Citizenship and [...]

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• Liberals start bashing Rick Scott's response to DOJ's voter-purge demand

  Rick Scott's refusal to end a noncitizen voter purge drew a few liberal rebukes.

  Progress Florida: ST. PETERSBURG – Progress Florida executive director Mark Ferrulo made the following statement in response to Gov. Rick Scott Administration’s letter that he will continue purging registered voters from Florida’s rolls despite the Department [...]

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• Rick Scott fights DOJ, says it's protecting illegal voters more than legal ones, undermines Constitution

  Gov. Rick Scott’s administration defiantly refused a federal demand to stop purging non-citizens from Florida’s voter rolls, intensifying an election-year confrontation with President Barack Obama’s administration as each side accuses the other of breaking federal law.
  
  In a sharply worded letter, Scott’s top elections official claimed the Department of [...]

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