Tuesday's governor's election will determine Florida's economic vitality for the next four years. The stakes are so high. Voters must examine the candidates and compare their records when they served in the executive office of governor.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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When I fretted to my friend and colleague Jay Nordlinger that Republicans may learn the wrong lessons from success in 2014, he noted sagely that he prefers to wait until the results are in before drawing any lessons. While that ought to have stayed my hand, I think some contours are discernible, and so I plunge in!
WASHINGTON -- Is this election really about nothing? Democrats might like to think so, but it's not.
First, like all U.S. elections, it's about the economy. The effect of the weakest recovery in two generations is reflected in President Obama's 13-point underwater ratings for his handling of the economy.
WASHINGTON -- To paraphrase Roger Miller -- and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia -- America swings like a pendulum do.
If projections, human nature and historical bent prevail next Tuesday, we may see a bit of topsy-turvy up on the benighted Hill. Anything still can happen, but it seemsas though Republicans may command both the House and Senate beginning next year.
Liberals have this terrible and annoying habit of congratulating themselves for their intellectual heft merely because they hold liberal views. Once this arrogant notion reigns, it's tough for liberals to acknowledge when one of their own says something so remarkably untrue and stupid that it makes you wonder just how ignorant is the liberal really.
The problems that will affect Floridas citizens and small businesses have taken a back seat to mudslinging in the gubernatorial race, and important issues, such as greenhouse gas emission regulations, are falling through the cracks.
On Oct. 27, 1964, 50 years ago Monday, a movie actor and television host delivered a 30-minute speech on primetime national television in support of the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater.There were no visual diversions, and the production values by today's standards were primitive. Few if any viewers realized it, but they were watching a future president of the United States.
There's unrest in the left-wing world of South Florida. Some are so dissatisfied that they want to break away and form their own state.
John Morgan is the ubiquitous trial attorney who has his name plastered on everything from buses to billboards all around the state.
WASHINGTON -- The early morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens' homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof vests and lugging battering rams, pounding on doors and issuing threats.
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By Kevin Derby
Veteran and attorney Paul Renner, engaged in a competitive Republican primary against banker Jay Fant to replace Rep. Dan Davis, R-Jacksonville, in the Florida House, released his first television commercial on Tuesday. The ad stresses Renners conservative credentials.
Ill cut taxes, fight Obamacare and let families choose the best education for their kids, Renner says in the ad.
By Kevin Derby
Leslie Dougher, the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), came out swinging at former Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday over his role in selling a Miami home. Despite spending most of his political life in the GOP, Crist is the favorite for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in November.
By Kevin Derby
After a ruling last week which found the congressional seats currently held by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., violated the Fair District amendments passed in 2010, the leaders of the Florida Legislature said they will redraw those two districts but will not touch the other 25. They also asked the judge if this impacted the 2014 elections which are already under way.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, unveiled a bill on Monday allowing the VA secretary to recoup bonuses handed out to VA employees, including managers at VA hospitals. In recent weeks, the VA has been under fire due to altered waiting lists at medical centers across the nation.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, took to the House floor on Monday night to shepherd $341 million in cuts to the IRS included in the Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill. The House is expected to vote on the proposal later this week.
Crenshaw pointed to recent problems with the IRS as he looks to gut it.
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A group of five state attorneys criticized former Gov. Charlie Crist over comments he made last week saying Florida's 10-20-Life laws needed to be reviewed.
Crist said the state should review its Stand Your Ground law as well as the 10-20-Life law during theFlorida Press Association and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors' convention in Coral Gables.
"I'm always open-minded to looking at those kinds of things," Crist said. "When you're faced with new facts, I think you ought to listen."
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., continued to call on the Obama administration on Monday to cut off funding to the Palestinian government as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East.
By Kevin Derby
Former Gov. Charlie Crist has been bending over backward as he tries to woo over his new party and now he is taking a page from two of the leading Democrats of the first half of the 20th century -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt and longtime Gov. Al Smith, D-N.Y., who was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928. Despite spending most of his political life as a Republican, Crist is the favorite for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in November.
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Rick Scott's campaign announced the "Veterans for Scott" coalition in Largo on Monday. The coalition is comprised of nearly 60 veterans and veteran activists from across the state andwill be led by Retired Air Force Brigadier General Chip Diehl and Retired Army Lt. Colonel Chris Hart.
Scott himself was a member of the U.S. Navy, serving as a radar man. He used benefits from the GI Bill to attend college.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Monday that Advanced IT Concepts Inc. (AITC) is expanding its headquarters in Seminole County leading to 50 new jobs in the Winter Springs facility over the next five years.
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