Gov. Rick Scott urged Floridians to be careful and stay ready after getting an update regarding Tropical Storm Erika at the Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center on Friday.
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Gov. Rick Scott named Tom Delacenserie as the interim secretary of the Florida Lottery to replace Cynthia O’Connell. Earlier this week, Politico Florida ran a story focusing on O’Connell racking up almost $30,000 in travel expenses and being excessively absent.
Florida Democrats U.S. Reps. Alan Grayson and Patrick Murphy turned up the heat on each other this week as they run in the primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016.
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Politicians switching parties to run for office in Florida is nothing new -- generally, they survive the backlash -- and a Jacksonville Republican is the latest political hopeful counting on that survival. The success stories include former Gov. Bob Martinez, who was elected mayor of Tampa as a Democrat before heading to Tallahassee in 1986 as a Republican. Jim Smith was a Democrat when he was elected attorney general, but after losing the 1986 Democratic primary, he joined the GOP and served as secretary of state. Florida State Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady served in the Florida House as a Democrat before winning a U.S. House seat in 1992 as a Republican.
Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio was not the only Republican to urge President Barack Obama to get tougher with China on Friday. From his perch on the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., sent a letter to Obama on China on Friday. The letter is included below:
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Running to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Senate in 2016, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., showcased his conservative credentials on Friday.
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The Democratic primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Senate heated up this week with the two leading candidates exchanging fire.
With Tropical Storm Erika expected to hit the Sunshine State early next week, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of the emergency on Friday morning covering all of Florida.
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U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture, Energy and Trade Subcommittee under the Small Business Committee’s umbrella, ripped into the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision focused on small businesses and contractors and employees.
At Thursday’s Florida Taxpayer Summit in Orlando, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., won a Republican presidential straw poll.
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