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Lobbying a lucrative cap for a legislator's career
TALLAHASSEE – You have to forgive Florida's reform-minded lawmakers if they don't want to preclude all their current colleagues from cashing in as lobbyists. This week, the Senate amended its sweeping ethics reform bill (SB 2) to allow current...
Tags: Mike Haridopolos, Hallandale Beach, Don Gaetz, Republican Party, John Thrasher
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College-football scandals pale in comparison to FAMU band case
Running off at the typewriter …
Sadly, the FAMU band-hazing death that took place during last year's Florida Classic at the Florida Citrus Bowl is, tragically, turning into the biggest intercollegiate-sports scandal this state has ever seen. Band...Tags: Dwight Howard, Indiana Pacers, Patrick Ewing, Bowl Championship Series, Big East Conference
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Senate Democrats try and fail to ‘upgrade’ Florida’s election system
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate is poised to pass an election reform inspired by last year's criticized elections, but will likely do so without the votes of minority-party Democrats who object the fix doesn't completely solve all the problems.... -
Ethics and campaign-finance marriage gets a bit complicated
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature's much-ballyhooed marriage between campaign-finance and ethics reforms may be heading for a rocky patch. On Tuesday, the Senate moved away from the House on its campaign-finance bill (SB 1382) when the chamber's... -
Paved with new money, lawmakers warping through budget work
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – In warp-speed fashion, the Florida Senate’s budget committee unanimously passed a $74.3 billion spending plan Wednesday that gives teachers pay-raises, pumps millions of dollars into university construction, and is loaded down... -
Senate advancing loopholes for lobbyist gift-ban
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – While advancing some grandiose ethics and elections reforms this year, Florida lawmakers also want to give themselves some wiggle-room under the last major shakeup to Tallahassee’s political culture – the ban on gifts... -
Senate budget chief wants to eliminate insurance industry tax break and roll back vehicle tag fees
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelA top senator said Thursday that he will introduce legislation to eliminate a nearly 30-year-old tax break for insurance companies and use the estimated $220 million in savings to roll back the annual car registration fees paid by the state's drivers. &#... -
Democrats raised cash liberally from Allied groups
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Normally, Republicans rule the roost when it comes to collecting campaign-coin in the Capitol. But an Orlando Sentinel analysis of the campaign-finance data reveals that the Florida Democratic Party, candidates for statewide office,... -
Senate tax-incentives super-bill emerges
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – Florida lawmakers are advancing a sweeping package of reforms of state economic-incentives that would require more rapid and detailed disclosure of the tax-breaks companies have received to fill jobs and closer scrutiny of their... -
Senator pushing lobbying ban for lawmakers is a lobbyist himself
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – Fueled by cases of legislators cashing in on their public offices, Florida Senate Ethics Chairman Jack Latvala has pushed for months to expand an ethics reform bill to place tighter lobbying prohibitions on lawmakers when they leave... -
Senate advancing its own campaign-finance reform
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – A Senate panel advanced its own campaign-finance bill (SB 1382) Monday in an attempt to provide more transparency to fundraising and crack down on lawmakers' perceived abuses of political slush funds. The House and Senate are playing... -
Senate passes ethics bill 40-0
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Senate just unanimously passed major ethics reform as its first bill of the 2013 session. There was no debate, other than a closing statement by Ethics and Elections Chairman Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater. “This is solid...
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