Category Rick Scott
Heard it Through the Groves: LG Candidates
Editors Note: Heard it Through The Groves is a section of the Florida Squeeze strictly for rumors and gossip. We require two sources to verify information before we publish it but these are NOT news stories but simply rumors. We urge our readers to treat rumors with a pinch of skepticism as we do. Jennifer […]
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.
Rick Scott Pleased About Boeing Move: Now He Needs to Repeat the Feat
By Kartik Krishnaiyer Governor Rick Scott is crowing about the move of Boeing’s move of its training facilities from Seattle to Miami. Scott said: “Boeing’s announcement that they are investing more of their business in Florida is great news for Florida families. Over the last two years, we have cut taxes and regulations to support […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do Governor Scott & the Legislature Have a Plan To Keep Office Depot HQ?
With Boca Raton based Office Depot announcing last week they would merge with Office Max which is based in Illinois. Office Depot is the 8th largest company based in the state of Florida and has received millions of dollars in tax “incentives” from the state and just over a million dollars from financially struggling Palm […]
AIF Legislative Priorities Largely Dangerous But Contain Some Nice Surprises
Through the years Associated Industries of Florida has become an extreme organization, more or less advocating unfettered free enterprise in the state and tort reform as the solution for just about every situation that may involve a degree of liability. While AIF has the usual list of dangerous tax breaks in this year’s agenda (which […]
Editorial: Rick Scott Played The Tea Party Like A Fiddle
Political outsiders and those involved in reform movements almost universally become disillusioned and disappointed with those whom they helped get elected. Thus the Tea Party’s denunciation of Rick Scott’s recent move towards the conservative positions formerly held by Florida Republicans (as contrasted with the hard right reactionary positions of the 2008-2012 time period) is not […]
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