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• Good taxpayer deal or 'get-rich quick funding scheme' for $110k Rick Scott donor?

  @ToluseO

  TALLAHASSEE -- Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott’s reelection campaign, an upstart property insurance company is likely to reap a $52 million windfall, paid from the coffers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

  Sitting on a record cash surplus of $6.4 billion, Citizens is hoping to ink a special [...]

  From Naked Politics at May 21, 2013, 8:38pm in News, Politics

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• A Little Night Music

  For Ray.

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  From Bark Bark Woof Woof at May 21, 2013, 6:30pm in News, Politics

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• Israel, Snipes warned to keep budgets 'lean'

  The budget outlook is brighter, but it's not time for a taxpayer-funded spending spree, county commissioners told the sheriff and other top county leaders Tuesday. [...]
  From Broward Politics at May 21, 2013, 6:26pm in News, Politics

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• Dogs Rule

  Watch this whole thing, and if you don’t blub with joy at the end, you have no heart.

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  From Bark Bark Woof Woof at May 21, 2013, 5:31pm in News, Politics

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• Marco Rubio files amendment to punish IRS agents who leak taxpayer docs

  From a press release:

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today filed an amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill that would punish Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who abuse their power by violating the First Amendment rights of the American people. The amendment is based on similar legislation, [...]

  From Naked Politics at May 21, 2013, 5:29pm in News, Politics

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• Pols: Watch Neal DeJesus, Not Al Lamberti

  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  There was a lot of speculation about former Sheriff Al Lamberti when he showed up at the county commission Tuesday.

  At the commission to watch is successor Sheriff Scott Israel beg for a huge funding increase from skeptical commissioners, Lamberti’s appearance immediately triggered speculation among tongue-wagging pols.

  Was Lamberti taking the tentative [...]

  From BrowardBeat.com at May 21, 2013, 5:17pm in News, Politics

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• Bill Nelson questions "social welfare" designation of nonprofit political groups

  @MarcACaputo

  The IRS' tea party-targeting scandal got its second congressional hearing today, this time in the Senate Finance Committee, where top Democrats like Florida Sen. Bill Nelson felt as if the tax agency was letting too many political groups wrongly hide behind nonprofit status for "social welfare" groups.

  Of course, the IRS' [...]

  From Naked Politics at May 21, 2013, 5:11pm in News, Politics

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• Gov signs elections law fix, reversing GOP changes and ending early primary

  Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session.

  The measure, signed by Scott late Monday before he left for a trade mission to Chile, reverses [...]

  From Naked Politics at May 21, 2013, 5:06pm in News, Politics

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• After Dolphins lose Super Bowl bids, Weatherford defends Legislature's non-deal on stadium

  After the Miami Dolphins lost their bid to host Super Bowl 50 or 51, House Speaker Will Weatherford took to his blog to defend the Legislature's decision not to pass a bill providing up to $389 million in taxpayer support for an upgraded stadium.

  Weatherford said the Dolphins stadium [...]

  From Naked Politics at May 21, 2013, 5:01pm in News, Politics

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• Gov. Scott signs elections bill extending early voting

  TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott has signed an elections bill that attempts to reverse some of the restrictions the Republican-controlled Legislature put in place in 2011, including allowing more early-voting. [...]
  From Juice: National politics at May 21, 2013, 4:05pm in News, Politics

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