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• Obama to make major immigration announcement in Las Vegas next week

  Huffington Post:

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama announced after a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Friday that he will lay out some of his plans for immigration reform on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

  Members of the caucus who were present at the meeting said Obama assured them that he shares [...]

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• Fraud claims, voter suppression, Sandusky and a 'Bitches' sign. Yup, FL Dem chair race finishing mean

  by @MarcACaputo

  The Florida Democratic Party picks its new chair tomorrow in Lake Mary -- and perhaps not a day too soon.

  The race between Allison Tant and Alan Clendenin has become quite a nasty affair. Some of Clendenin's supporters say some of Tant's have engaged in fraud and shouldn't be [...]

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• Sen. Bob Menendez: You think that's funny, Sen. Flake?

  Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said U.S. college revelers/spring breakers in Cuba would foster change in the communist country. But Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey didn’t find the comment very funny or amusing. 

  Read Miami Herald story here.

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• Rick Scott expecting another grandchild this year

  Gov. Rick Scott and wife Ann are expecting grandchild No. 2 sometime this summer.

  It will be the second child born to Scott's oldest daughter, Allison Scott Guimard, 30, who lives in Naples with husband Pierre and 1-year-old son Auguste, born in November 2011.

  Ann Scott casually passed on the news at a Thursday dinner at the Governor's Mansion to 48 guests, [...]

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• Satanists* for Rick Scott hold Old Capitol rally

  A group of self-proclaimed "Satanists" has praised Gov. Rick Scott for signing a bill into law that lets school boards permit student-initiated prayer and other "inspirational messages." 

  The devil, though, was in the details at a rally Friday in front of Florida's Old Capitol. 

  A high priest wearing goat horns and four [...]

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• PolitiFact Florida: Fact-checking Don Gaetz, Rick Scott and 'Pink Slip Rick' on early voting

  The Truth-O-Meter went to work this week examining claims about Florida's early voting program.

  Senate President Don Gaetz recently said the 2011 elections law, which cut early voting days from 14 to eight, would have been worse without him fighting to add more hours.

  "I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early [...]

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• Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz considering bid for governor.

  Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz looks ready to run for governor and has spent the past three weeks lining up support from strategists, financiers and elected officials.

  Diaz, who hasn't taken calls from The Miami Herald for three weeks about his plans, finally returned a text message on Friday and [...]

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• Was Florida right to delay implementing the Affordable Care Act?

  It’s not just deciding whether to expand Medicaid and create a state-based exchange. Florida legislators have numerous policy and regulatory decisions ahead of them related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. And time is ticking.

  For example, there are conflicts between state insurance laws and the federal law established by [...]

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• Allen West launches foundation

  Former U.S. Rep. Allen West has launched a nonprofit Allen West Foundation. His spokesperson released no details about the Boca Raton-foundation. West,  who lost in November to Democrat Patrick Murphy, transferred $250,000 in unspent money from his campaign to the foundation. He also transferred the same amount to American Legacy [...]
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• White House waiting on Rubio for immigration bill (but hasn't issued its own)

  From yesterday's White House press briefing:

  Q  On immigration, has the President given any more thought on moving forward on immigration -- whether you can do it in one full package, whether he’ll end up breaking it up into separate pieces?  And has he reached out at all to Marco Rubio [...]

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