From the Sunshine State News
Earlier today Florida Watch Action, Progress Florida and America Votes named 18 members of the Legislature as “Florida’s Middle Class Champions. ” Continuing the trend we saw with The Florida Squeeze scorecard, far more progressives were found this session in the Florida House than in the Florida Senate. The excellent work of these organizations should […]
Local sources in Broward County connected to multiple House members have indicated to TFS that several House Democrats have lost confidence in Minority Leader Perry Thurston. The concerns expressed by the House members include the failure to recruit candidates in several marginal House seats that have now been deemed as top priorities by the incoming […]
The worldwide press particularly the Guardian has been focused on the NSA scandal and even here in the US it is hard to turn on the TV and not find some sort of discussion of the issue on news programs. The reporting to break the news was almost entirely done by liberals and liberal publications […]
Excellent read from George Bennett in the Palm Beach Post.
From the influential BizPac Review comes some bad news for Palm Beach Republicans.
Editors Note: Heard it Through The Groves is a section of the Florida Squeeze strictly for rumors and gossip. We typically require two sources to verify information before we publish it but these are NOT news stories and simply rumors. We urge our readers to treat these rumors with a pinch of skepticism as we […]
In 1994, Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles won reelection by just over 70,000 votes statewide. Last year, President Obama carried Florida in his reelection by almost the same exact raw vote margin. However, the consistencies between the vote numbers stop there. Chiles won by combining the traditional Democratic counties of Leon, Alachua and Volusia, with close […]
Let’s take a moment away from politics for a minute but not completely because this piece will be praising the Broward County Commission and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors bureau. Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL) has become a major international hub in a relatively short period of time and today locally based no-frills, […]
This week Attorney General Pam Bondi furthered her right-wing credentials by becoming one of the few Attorney’s General in either political party who failed to back comprehensive immigration reform. Bondi has previously supported Arizona’s hardline and controversial racial profiling enabling immigration law. The Attorney General is continuing a long standing pattern of partisan and ideological […]
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