Category Florida Legislature
Are Florida’s Business Groups Becoming More Pragmatic?
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Florida’s two leading business groups endorsement of Rick Scott’s Medicaid expansion (which ran into trouble in the Senate this week) signaled to many a pragmatic shift by Associated Industries (AIF) and The Florida Chamber. While on the surface it appears the organizations are growing more practical and realistic in approaching the need […]
Zest of the Day: Adam Smith on Medicaid
Adam Smith the political editor of the TB Times ponders whether Speaker Will Weatherford’s snub of Medicaid expansion may actually benefit Governor Scott.
Zest of the Day: Zero Job Growth In Florida Among Small Firms
Despite the continued talk of a recovery in Florida and the claims by the GOP Legislative leadership that they are creating small business jobs, growth numbers remain stagnant in Florida according to the Sun Sentinel. This is coupled with the continued failure of Republican legislators to attract large companies that stimulate economic growth to the […]
Dozens Converge on Downtown Tampa to Resist Voter Suppression
By Ryan Ray As our Capitol slowly devolves into an open-air slaughterhouse for good ideas and majoritarian rule, lousy with graft and openly hostile to the public trust like no time since the regime of the Pork Choppers, a loose-knit group of lefties the state over is standing athwart Florida history yelling “Enough already!” In […]
Session 2013: How The House Democrats Will Be Different This Session
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Term limits and redistricting have created a never ending flow of new legislators and new opportunities for the Democrats in Florida. Yet more often than not the party has failed to take advantage of these opportunities. Despite the pickup of five seats this cycle, House Democrats missed countless opportunities to actually change […]
Session 2013: Will The Center Hold in the Florida Senate?
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Term limits have had a devastating consequence. The Florida Legislature has gotten worse and worse as we have gotten deeper into the term limits era. Last year five moderate GOP Senators were term limited and despite three huge Democratic primary victories for liberals (electing Geraldine Thompson, Jeff Clemens and Dwight Bullard over […]
The Laughable and Hypocritical Florida “Civility” Project
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Last week, RPOF Chairman Lenny Curry made a call for civility last week citing the actions of progressive activists to “eviscerate the leadership and weaken their ability to govern.” The RPOF Chairman is a complete hypocrite who has sought to change the narrative away from his party which has behaved as if […]
Will Republicans Show More Humility During the 2013 Session?
Last year, when the incoming Speaker Will Weatherford named ethically challenged Lake Mary Republican Chris Dorworth as his prospective Majority Leader, it sent a strong signal that the GOP continued to be unfazed by publicly embarrassing and unethical behavior. After all when you have had an uncontested majority for so long you tend to forget […]
How Will Rick Scott’s Lurch To The Middle Impact the GOP Sense of Entitlement & Unity?
This week one by one the other members of the Florida Cabinet voiced displeasure with Rick Scott’s decision regarding Medicaid expansion. While Scott clearly can read public opinion polls and seems to have taken some steps to reinvent himself following a poor elections cycle for core Republican issues (best evidenced by the failure of ideologically […]
Zest of the Day: Lucy Morgan’s Advice to Speaker Weatherford
The great Lucy Morgan has some great advice for Speaker Will Weatherford.
The Florida Squeeze 