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If you only read one thing: Slugging it out in the Senate [Tampa Bay Times Column]. Some highlights: “This is like discovering Ronald Reagan was the paterfamilias of Dennis Rodman.” “Now LeMieux may be many things …

Tampa Trib: Homestead exemption could be issue for Mack By WILLIAM MARCH | The Tampa Tribune Published: February 21, 2012 Updated: February 21, 2012 – 6:00 AM When news broke last week that Democratic Sen. Bill …

Over the weekend a chorus of newspapers from across the state condemned the GOP’s attempt to grant themselves immunity from lawsuits pertaining to their gerrymandered and unconstitutional redistricting maps. As the FDP noted last week, this …

Connie Mack had a campaign crippling weekend. On Friday, the Miami Herald reported on Mack’s Penny Plan hypocrisy: although he’s made debt reduction a centerpiece of his campaign, Mack has a history of property tax liens, …

Turns out Connie Mack’s penny-pinching debt-reduction plan is a hypocritical sham. The Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo is reporting that the beltway insider may be preaching fiscal conservatism on the campaign trail (when he gets around to …

Florida’s Republican governor and GOP-led legislature are attempting to retain a stranglehold on state government and cement their control in Tallahassee for another decade. Déjà vu 2002. Just like in 2002, the GOP is ignoring the …

Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Democratic Party today filed a brief challenging the GOP-backed state legislative maps. The party filed a lawsuit in state court last week challenging the GOP-backed congressional maps. “We firmly believe the …

Tallahassee, FL – Today, Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Scott Arceneaux issued the following statement in response to the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of a legislative immunity bill: “With the GOP redistricting legal team in the …

Tallahassee, FL – Today, Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith issued the following statement in response to the failed attempt to privatize Florida prisons: “Today, Republicans and Democrats came together to stop Governor Rick Scott and …

Tallahassee, FL — On the heels of the Florida Legislature’s passage of the GOP-backed redistricting maps concerned Florida voters, working with the Florida Democratic Party (FDP), today filed a lawsuit in Florida state court to challenge …