Very different ratings from what we have at TFS for obvious reasons in this year’s Florida Chamber Report Card.

We have been delayed in developing and issuing our Florida Senate Scorecard for 2013 but we plan on issuing the scorecard on Thursday May 23. We apologize for the delay.

The MoveOn petition to the State House regarding the failure of Speaker Weatherford’s body to address Medicaid expansion has close to 3,000 signatures of Floridians. As we move beyond legislative session, it seems this issue simply will not go away for the House and the continued grassroots push to have this matter addressed in a […]

Excellent column from the always on point Doug Lyons in the Sun Sentinel. Florida’s Health Care crisis continues to worsen while the legislature literally fiddles while Rome burns. It is a familiar story in this era of an out of touch and entitled leadership of the state.

The following votes were used to determine the ratings for our House scorecard. We are developing a graphically enhanced publication that will show each legislator and each of the votes cast, but for now we are printing the votes we used to determine the scores. The scores for each House member can be found here. […]

Vote descriptions found here. —– The ideological splits in the House have been evident since the original post redistricting session of 2001 when termed long-term moderate Democrats and Republicans were replaced by more ideological members many of whom never had or would face competitive general elections. But what has happened in the era of Republican […]