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• Anatomy of absentee-ballot fraud, the Hialeah edition

  The latest investigation of potential absentee ballot fraud in Miami-Dade County was triggered by a private investigator who went to police with his suspicions that a woman active in Hialeah politics was illegally collecting absentee ballots from voters.

  Miami private investigator Joe Carrillo said he first went to Miami-Dade public corruption [...]

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• LG Carroll apologizes for 'wrong and inexcusable' anti-gay comments

   After an online petition drive garnered hundreds of signatures seeking her apology, Lieutenant Gov. Jennifer Carroll on Thursday apologized to the head of an advocacy group saying that her anti-gay comment two weeks ago was "wrong and inexcusable."

  Equality Florida, a civil rights group that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Floridians, launched the online petition [...]

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• Florida pharmacists accuse state of shutting them out of Medicaid

  The Florida Pharmacy Association announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in Leon County's Circuit Court in an attempt to nullify state procedures they say is beginning to leave Florida pharmacists out of the business of fullfilling prescriptions for Medicaid patients.

  The state's Agency for Health Care Administration has [...]

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• Sen. candidate Aaron Bean: I didn't vote for illegal immigrant-tuition bill. But he did.

  With the entire state Capitol Republican power structure behind Aaron Bean for Senate, perhaps someone could brief him on his votes from his time in the Florida House.

  Or perhaps someone could make him read the PolitiJax blog that, two days ago, reported on his May 2, 2005 vote [...]

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• Secret recording emerges of Jim Greer by Delmar Johnson in RPOF lawsuit

  Delmar Johnson, former executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, brought Easter presents for the children when he arrived at former party chairman Jim Greer’s house in Ovieda on the night of March 29, 2010.

  Greer’s children were happy to see “Uncle Gar Gar,” godfather to Aiden, Greer’s [...]

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• Secret recording details conversation between RPOF's Jim Greer and Delmar Johnson

  Delmar Johnson, former executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, brought Easter presents for the children when he arrived at former party chairman Jim Greer’s house in Oviedo on the night of March 29, 2010.

  Greer’s children were happy to see “Uncle Gar Gar,” godfather to Aiden, Greer’s toddler son.

  Together [...]

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• Bill Nelson's tax vote could help the budget... of Connie Mack's campaign

  Sen. Bill Nelson’s decision to cast a deciding vote for raising taxes on the wealthy won’t do much to fix the budget deficit, but it could help the campaign coffers of his Republican rival.

  Less than a day after the 51-48 Senate vote, Republican Rep. Connie Mack’s campaign sent out a [...]

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• Sen. Nan Rich seeks to block inmate health care outsourcing

  Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich, D-Weston, has lodged a formal objection to the Legislature giving final approval to budget transfers that would allow the prison system to privatize health care for 100,000 inmates. Rich wrote a letter to Sen. JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, who chairs the 14-member Legislative Budget Commission. The prison system has asked the LBC [...]

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• Romney campaign's "You Didn't Build That" web ad assault features FL biz owners

  Mitt Romney's presidential campaign obviously thinks it has a winner when it comes to the "You Didn't Build That" controversy involving President Obama's comments regarding small businesses, two of which from Florida are featured in the following web ad:

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• Report claims Florida lawmakers do bidding of corporate-funded ALEC

  Some of the most controversial bills introduced recently in the Florida Legislature were thought up by out-of-state corporate interests with financial motives, according to a report released Thursday by a two national watchdog groups and Progress Florida. The report says the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a shadowy [...]

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