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• MIAMI | MAYORAL RACE

  Early fundraising edge by Suarez in Miami mayoral battle forces Regalado to attack

  Five months before the vote, Commissioner Francis Suarez’s $1 million bankroll has forced Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado into attack mode.
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  Elections

  Rep. Joe Garcia’s disgraced chief of staff has longstanding ties to the Miami congressman

  Jeffrey Garcia made his name as a hard-nosed political operative in South Florida congressional races.

• Politics

  Marc Caputo: Gov. Rick Scott hopes pen is mightier than past

  Dear [First Name],

• Tallahassee

  PolitiFact Florida: Has Gov. Rick Scott cut taxes 24 times?

  ‘We cut taxes 24 times,’ Gov. Rick Scott said. PolitiFact Florida rates the claim ‘Half True.’
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  Tallahassee

  Other states resent Scott’s job poaching

  Gov. Rick Scott is writing to corporate execs in California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Connecticut — which have Democratic governors — hoping to attract the companies to Florida, while tearing down the economies in those states.

• Miami Beach

  Miami Beach mayor to run for City Commission

  Term limits prevent Matti Herrera Bower for running for mayor again, but she can run for another City Commission seat.
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  Immigration

  Rubio balancing act leads some to doubt commitment to bill

  The Florida senator, a leader of the effort to reform U.S. immigration laws, says adjustments must be made to ensure that the measure passes.

• TALLAHASSEE

  Gov. Scott to decide on signing, vetoing bills affecting consumers

  The bills deal with evictions, foreclosures, loan rates, protections for car buyers and requiring paid sick leave.

• TROPICAL STORM

  Florida officials use onset of storm season to blast Washington

  Florida Republicans warned that federal budget cuts could harm the state’s ability to prepare for storm damage this hurricane season.

• Tallahassee

  Gov. Scott trades up on new plane

  Gov. Rick Scott, who pays for his own plane, is upgrading to a 12-passenger twin-engine jet.

• Elections

  Lawyer of convicted Garcia rival wants FBI investigation of mystery 2010 candidate

  Amid the elections scandal plaguing U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia’s campaign, a lawyer for a now-convicted rival wants the FBI to investigate another mystery candidate with suspect finances.

• Tallahassee

  Gov. Scott signs mortgage-relief law

  The law aims to protect homeowners from foreclosure abuses.

• Florida Government

  Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants’ kids vetoed by Gov. Rick Scott

  Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a measure Tuesday that would have allowed undocumented migrants’ children to get temporary driver’s licenses.

• In My Opinion

  Fred Grimm: Surprise! Both parties cheated in Joe Garcia’s district

  We’re calling the game off down in District 26. Suspending the democratic process. Citizens of District 26 will have to get by without a voice in the U.S. House of Representatives until they can come up with congressional candidates not inclined to subvert elections.
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  Elections

  Rep. Joe Garcia stands by staffer implicated in Miami-Dade absentee-ballot investigation

  The congressman said he takes his communications director at his word that he wasn’t involved in an attempt to manipulate last year’s primary election.
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  LOBBYING

  Florida lawmakers-turned-lobbyists fuel revolving door of politics

  A steady number of former Florida lawmakers are finding jobs in the lucrative influence business, adding to nearly 340 members of Congress who have breezed through the revolving door in the past 15 years.

• Political scene

  North Miami mayor delivers unfiltered farewell speech

  At his last meeting in office, North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre gave an unfiltered speech to an audience of dozens at City Hall.

• Politics

  Marc Caputo: Signs of a secrecy-obsessed, unaccountable government

  Four black youths sat in the middle of the street as police swarmed around them.
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  Elections

  Congressman Joe Garcia: ‘Flawed’ absentee-voting system, ‘reckless abandon’ in politics contributed to ballot scandal

  A day after his chief of staff was implicated in a scheme to manipulate last year’s primary elections, U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia maintained that he was unaware of the failed plan.
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  POLITICS | ANALYSIS

  In possible 2014 primary, Nan Rich says she’s ‘true Democrat’ against Charlie Crist

  A long-shot for Florida governor, former state Sen. Nan Rich is the inverse of former Gov. Charlie Crist. She’s a longtime Democrat — but a virtual unknown.

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