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• Gov. Rick Scott to join search party for missing University of Florida teen on Saturday morning

  Gov. Rick Scott announced late Friday he planned to join the search for missing University of Florida student Christian Aguilar. He will be in Gainesville on Saturday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. to join the search party, according to a schedule released by his office in Tallahassee.

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• Florida fires back at feds over kids in nursing homes

  The war of words between Florida health administrators and federal civil rights lawyers continued Friday as the administration of Gov. Rick Scott rebuffed the U.S. Justice Department’s offer to help remove hundreds of children from nursing homes.

  In a letter to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Florida social service chiefs [...]

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• GOP poll: embattled David Rivera 33% - Joe Garcia 43%

  Two separate polls from Republican and Democratic third-party groups have arrived at the same conclusion: Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera is losing his reelection effort.
  
  Rivera, under separate federal criminal investigations into his personal and campaign finances, trails Democratic challenger Joe Garcia by 9 percentage points in a Democratic [...]

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• RPOF chairman pushes back with attack on justices as "red-faced" and angry

  Hit with a barrage of criticism over the Republican Party of Florida siding with a right-wing conservative group in opposition to the state's three Florida Supreme Court justices, RPOF Chairman Lenny Curry roared back on Friday with an op-ed in a handful of newspapers and online sites.

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• Rubio to join Mack on Monday for events in Miami and The Villages, Nelson to barnstorm

  U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will meet up with Republican Congressman Connie Mack IV for campaign events in Miami and the Villages on Monday.

  Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has announced a "Barnstorming tour" of the state beginning Oct. 22, after the Oct. 17 debate, "covering Florida from tip to toe,'' [...]

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• GOP firm fired for flawed Palm Beach voter registrations had issues in other counties

  TALLAHASSEE —A vendor fired by the Republican Party of Florida for submitting questionable voter registrations forms in Palm Beach County is also responsible for filing flawed applications in other counties and states, election officials confirmed Friday.

  Earlier this week, Florida Republicans fired Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting after Palm Beach County flagged [...]

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• Number of counties reporting questionable GOP registrations grows

  A vendor fired by the Republican Party of Florida for submitting questionable voter registrations forms in Palm Beach County is also responsible for filing flawed applications in other counties and states, election officials confirmed Friday.

  Earlier this week, Florida Republicans fired Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting after Palm Beach County flagged about [...]

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• FDLE arrests Rep. Campbell's aide on grand theft charges

  A legislative aide to state Rep. Daphne Campbell was arrested Friday for grand theft after she allegedly charged constituents phony fees for assistance that never materialized. 

  Janice Y. Shackelford, 49, resigned her job as a secretary in Campbell’s Miami Shores office after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement started investigating complaints [...]

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• RPOF may have to return $10,000 in illegal contributions stemming from Buchanan case

  The Republican Party of Florida is looking into returning about $10,000 in contributions that were deemed illegal and were tied to guilty pleas a Tampa developer and an accountant made yesterday in federal court.

  "It is entirely appropriate to return contributions that are tainted by confirmed criminal actions of any [...]

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• Movers & Shakers: VISIT FLORIDA CEO hits the road, DMS spokesman heads to DC

  VISIT FLORIDA president hits the road

  VISIT FLORIDA president and CEO Chris Thompson is leaving his post to be president and CEO of Brand USA, a public/private partnership to increase international travel to the United States.

  The departure from the state's tourism marketing corporation prompted a mention from Gov. Rick Scott, whose [...]

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