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• Rick Scott and Scott Randolph pen competing essays on Medicaid expansion

  Gov. Rick Scott is pushing back against critics of his choice to reject the federal Medicaid expansion, emphasizing in this opinion-editorial that it will be a costly policy move for states and the better strategy is -- you guessed it -- to create jobs so more people can afford their own insurance.

  His [...]

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• RPOF attacks "two faces" of Charlie Crist

  "Charlie Crist demonstrates he has two faces. One is the face of what he says, and the other is his record," reads a blistering Republican Party of Florida e-mail sent out Tuesday afternoon.

  The attack accuses Crist of flip-flopping on the voter purge issue. It is a response to Crist's Washington [...]

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• Florida appeals Miami federal judge ruling against law prohibiting hiring of companies tied to Cuba

  The state of Florida is appealing a Miami federal judge's decision to strike down a law prohibiting governments from hiring companies with business ties to Cuba.

  Last month, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore blocked the law from taking effect on July 1, as scheduled. Odebrecht USA, the Coral Gables-based affiliate [...]

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• Anthrax hoaxster who mailed Sens. Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson indicted by feds

  A Middle District of Florida US Attorney's press release on a person whose hate/stupidity is bipartisan:

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Kathryn Cohen Allen, 45, Jasper, Fla., was charged in an indictment unsealed today with nine counts of mailing hoax anthrax letters, announced U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida Robert E. [...]

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• Chamber backs Lisbon in his primary challenge against Rep. Gibbons

  The Florida Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Sheldon Lisbon, a Democratic candidate for state house in the new District 100 which runs from Surfside to Dania Beach. Lisbon is running against State Rep. Joe Gibbons (D-Hallandale Beach).

  Although Gibbons is running for his third term and has about double the size of Lisbon's [...]

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• State loses yet another round in private privatization saga

  Yet another legal setback for Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature in their efforts to expand privatization in state prisons.

  The First District Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed the state's appeal of a lower-court decision that struck down as unconstitutional a plan to privatize more than two dozen prisons in South [...]

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• State loses yet another round in prison privatization saga

  Yet another legal setback for Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature in their efforts to expand privatization in state prisons.

  The First District Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed the state's appeal of a lower-court decision that struck down as unconstitutional a plan to privatize more than two dozen prisons in South [...]

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• Campaign-cash catch 22: Connie Mack raises $50k, but gets rapped for missed votes

  Remember the beating Jim Davis took from Charlie Crist for missing votes in Washington in 2006? We wonder if it's only a matter of time before Democrats and/or Bill Nelson start using the same attack on U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, who has missed a slew of votes while running [...]

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• Putnam energy audit finds millions in taxpayer waste

  Florida misspent millions of federal and state dollars intended to grow the energy sector, according to an audit by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

  The audit is among the first steps by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam to bring stricter measurement and oversight to the Office of Energy, which, he [...]

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• Judge refuses to issue gag order in case against former Carroll aide

  Circuit Court Judge Frank Sheffield declined Assistant State Attorney John Hutchins' attempt to seal the file and prevent lawyers representing a former aide for the lieutenant governor from making statements to the media.

  But Sheffield did admonish attorneys on both sides of the case during a private meeting in his chambers [...]

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