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• RPOF uses voter purge as pro-Scott message

  With a heady surge of voter approval over his handling of the voter purge, and a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to give the state access to its immigration list, the Republican Party of Florida sees a message moment.

  They want Floridians to spread the word [...]

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• Prisons will move forward with health outsourcing

  The Florida Department of Corrections said Tuesday it will move ahead with plans to privatize all health care for the nation's third-largest prison system, even after a stalemate in court and the expiration of legislative budget language that authorized the sweeping change.
  
  Corrections Secretary Ken Tucker issued a late-afternoon [...]

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• Rubio: Treat people who've been trafficked as victims and not perpetrators

  WASHINGTON -- More than a century after abolition, slavery is still a problem in the United States, actress Jada Pinkett Smith told a Senate committee that is deciding whether to renew a law designed to combat human trafficking.

  In a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pinkett Smith and [...]

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• Gov. Scott to Congress: Find out how much Libor scandal has cost Floridians

  Gov. Rick Scott has fired off a letter to Florida’s representatives in Congress, asking them to turn up the heat on an investigation into an international banking scandal he says has impacted Floridians.

  Last month, Barclays Capital was fined more than $450 million over allegations that it fraudulently manipulated the [...]

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• Elton John complained to Gov. Scott about funding cuts, was told to do a concert

  Gov. Rick Scott has made his way into the pages of a new memoir by singer-songwriter Elton John.

  A year ago, Sir Elton, as he is formally called, penned a letter to Florida's governor complaining about the administration's plans to change the eligibility requirements of Florida's Aids Drug Assistance Program, suggesting it would [...]

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• Gambling lobbyist Dunbar praises Tom Lee, who fires back

  Tallahassee gambling lobbyist Marc Dunbar wrote a fund-raising letter to his clients on the letterhead of his law firm (Pennington Moore Wilkinson Bell & Dunbar), urging them to support former Sen. Tom Lee in his Republican Senate primary against Rep. Rachel Burgin in East Hillsborough's District 24.

  Calling the race "a clear choice between a pro-gambling moderate [...]

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• Report: Florida's economy, unemployment face uphill battle

  Florida's economy continues to face a number of challenges as it tries to rebound from the Great Recession, according to a report out today from the The Florida Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research.

  The report found that while Florida's unemployment rate has dropped from 9.9 percent in December to 8.6 percent [...]

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• Mitt Romney acting scared regarding Gary Johnson

  You probably don’t give a great deal of thought to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate. Maybe you should. Mitt Romney certainly is.

  Romney’s political cronies in Michigan have gotten Johnson kicked off the November ballot there because he was three minutes late in filing some paperwork. With polls indicating [...]

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• South Florida lawmakers slam Citizens board for trying to push up insurance rates

  The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. received a tongue-lashing from lawmakers and homeowners during a Monday workshop in Miami after unveiling a plan to raise rates by an average of 7.5 percent next year.

  The proposed statewide rate increase — which is higher in places like South Florida — translates [...]

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• Bye-bye, Marco Rubio from Romney veepstakes?

  Sean Hannity sounds beside himself. Reuters seems pretty sure. Same with NBC Nightly News.

  All appear to believe that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio isn't at the top of the shortlist to be Mitt Romney's vice presidential. That is, Rubio isn't on the shorter list.

  "Why do I keep hearing they're not [...]

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