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• Tied to Rubio and Obama, consultant who lost job amid Miami ballot-fraud case is consummate insider

  Fired from one campaign and chastised by another, veteran Miami political consultant Al Lorenzo finds himself in a position where no political operative wants to be: in the news.

  Lorenzo, 60, lost his lucrative post in Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s reelection campaign Monday for failing to disclose that one of his [...]

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• Rep. Ana Rivas Logan says rival campaign worker is defaming her by telling voters she's 'bad mother'

  A lawyer for state Rep. Ana Rivas Logan has sent a letter to her Aug. 14 Republican primary opponent, Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, asking him to stop someone allegedly working for Diaz's campaign from "making malicious and false defamatory statements" about Logan.

  The two incumbent Miami Republicans are vying for the [...]

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• CNN: Obama Super PAC ad slamming Romney is "heart-wrenching... But it's not accurate."

  The Priorities USA Super PAC ad that implicates Republican candidate Mitt Romney's business background in the death of a woman who lost her health insurance isn't accurate, according to CNN.

  "It's a heart-wrenching story, but it's not accurate," said CNN White House correspondent Brianna Keilar.

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• Environmental groups launch amendment drive to create enviro protection fund

  A coalition of the state's top environmental organizations on Tuesday launched a petition drive to put an amendment on the November 2014 ballot that would guarantee a stable source of money for environmental protection.

  The effort, organized by a group calling itself the Florida Water and Land Legacy Campaign, aims to end [...]

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• ALF panel hammers out small changes

  After legislators and special interests shut down sweeping proposals to protect the elderly and disabled in assisted living facilities, a 15-member panel stepped forward with the hope of implementing small changes.

  And, although the committee's bureaucrats, resident advocates and ALF administrators have a history of strife and vastly different interests, [...]

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• Saunders v. Bullard matchup: a contest between legacies

  The race for the Democratic nominee for Senate District 39 has come down to a contest between legacies.

  Dwight Bullard, a member of the House of Representatives and son of the current state senator in the post, hopes to continue carrying the family mantle while Ron Saunders, currently the House Democratic [...]

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• Bondi and Legislature both claim authority over $300 million in foreclosure money

  Florida attorney general Pam Bondi clarified Tuesday that she was not feuding with the Legislature over how to spend $300 million in cash earmarked for Florida as part of a $25 billion national foreclosure settlement.

  But it’s abundantly clear that Bondi’s office and the Legislature have two very different views on [...]

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• Rick Scott on FPL rate hike: not my issue

  Gov. Rick Scott appeared last weekend at the RedState 2012 gathering in Jacksonville and proclaimed to the conservative crowd there that "anything that comes out of your pocket I want to reduce. I want to reduce every fee and tax I can."

  Does that include utility bills? The state's largest electric company, [...]

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• Gov. Scott on embattled Lt. Gov. Carroll: 'She's done a great job'

  It has been a rough few weeks for Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. But Gov. Rick Scott said today that she handled those recently controversies appropriately and is focused on the right things. The governor also indicated that he still plans to keep Carroll as his running mate when he campaigns [...]

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• Mitt Romney campaign tries to make President Obama into the welfare president

  Above is a TV ad that's part of Republican Mitt Romney's heightened effort to transform President Obama into what Republican Newt Gingrich called "the welfare president." Bottom line: the Romney campaign says Obama rolled back welfare reforms that essentially gives people a check even if they're not looking for work. [...]

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