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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is scheduled to be in Jupiter on Nov. 10 to attend a fundraiser for Congressman Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, at the home of Cheney Brothers' CEO Bryon Russell. In 2008, Russell donated $500 directly to Rooneys first congressional campaign for Florida's 16th District and another $24,154 to the Florida 16 Victory Trust.

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs wants Gov. Rick Scott to adopt a new policy to prevent people with conflicts of interest serving on the board of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority. Jacobs,a Republican,wrote a three-page letter to Scott on Thursday to express her concern because in August Scott appointed engineer Scott Batterson to the board. The Orlando Sentinel reported Batterson, a site civil engineer for IBI Group Inc., works for a company that would benefit from construction of the $1.8 billion Wekiva Parkway.

Pamela Geller, a controversial anti-Islam activist, goes onstage at the Florida Tea Party Convention in Daytona Beach Saturday afternoon. Organizers said Geller is scheduled to speak at 3:15 at the Ocean Convention Center. Posting at her Atlasshrugs.com website, Geller said she also will screen the film, "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of 9/11 Attacks."

The state shouldnt have reopened the bidding process to convert 29 prison facilities from public to private hands, a circuit judge has ruled. Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford declared that the bidding process should have remained suspended, as it had been since Sept. 30 when she ruled against Floridas proposal to privatize the correctional facilities.