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  • Alex Diaz de la Portilla gets $125K from controversial donor

    State House hopeful Alex Diaz de la Portilla has no qualms about accepting $125,000 from a controversial donor.

    The considerable contribution to Diaz de la Portilla's political committee, Citizens for Accountable Government, came from Miami Beach physician Allan Jacob.

    Donations from Jacob have drawn scrutiny before.

    Two years ago, Jacob [...]

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  • Fort Lauderdale judge rules state can continue to purge noncitizen voters from rolls

    A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale ruled Thursday that Florida’s purge of potential noncitizens on the voter rolls can go on.

    U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch said federal law does not prohibit the state from removing voters who were never lawfully eligible to register in the first place. Florida has [...]

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  • FDLE launches criminal probe of suspicious inmate death

    The Florida Department of Corrections is ordering leadership changes at one of its biggest prisons and has ordered a criminal investigation following the suspicious and still-unexplained death of an inmate last month at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford.

    The prison system also said "there may be more investigations opened," suggesting there may be one or more additional [...]

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  • Hasner says he raised $475,000

    Congressional candidate Adam Hasner (R-Boca Raton) said he raised about $475,000 between July 26 and Sept. 30. That fundraising total is based on his press release -- not the actual Federal Election Commission report.

    When we get a figure from his opponent, Lois Frankel (D-West Palm Beach), we will provide an [...]

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  • Hasner says he raised $475,000

    Congressional candidate Adam Hasner (R-Boca Raton) said he raised about $475,000 between July 26 and Sept. 30. That fundraising total is based on his press release -- not the actual Federal Election Commission report.

    When we get a figure from his opponent, Lois Frankel (D-West Palm Beach), we will provide an [...]

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  • Citizens' controversial $350M loan program picks up endorsements

    Two state lawmakers and three insurance industry representatives voiced their support Thursday for Citizens Property Insurance’s controversial plan to loan out $350 million to the private sector.

    The group—which included Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, Rep. Bryan Nelson, R-Apopka, and former House speaker Tom Feeney—said Citizens should act “with all due haste” to approve the [...]

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  • FL Hispanic poll: Obama 61-Romney 31. About half know an illegal immigrant

    Hispanic voters in Florida heavily favor President Obama, strongly back his immigration positions and are highly enthusiastic about voting, according to a new poll.

    Also, about half of all the voters know someone who is illegally in the country, according to the survey of 400 registered Florida Hispanics conducted for America’s [...]

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  • Under fire: Florida Supreme Court hears line-up of controversy today

    Under fire from the right for its previous decisions involving the Republican-led state Legislature, the Florida Supreme Court today hears oral arguments today on cases relating to the death penalty, energy costs and university tuition issues that, depending on the ruling, will disappoint someone.

    Three of the seven justices have been targeted by [...]

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  • President Obama lacked zing in debate without zest

    The presidential debate hyped as an exercise in meticulously planned zingers had little zing.

    And President Obama was doubly zinger-less Wednesday night in Denver.

    He was flat. He meandered more than Republican Mitt Romney.

    Obama used lots of numbers. But it sounded like a calculus lesson at times. It wasn’t the 2+2=4 [...]

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