On top of selecting a new president, voting on a new U.S. Senator and choosing Florida lawmakers, Floridians will vote on five constitutional amendments later this year. Getting a constitutional amendment to pass isn’t a walk in the park. Each amendment needs 60 percent of the vote in order to pass, and groups in favor of and against each amendment typically tend to spend millions of dollars in campaigns to push their message.
On top of selecting a new president, voting on a new U.S. Senator and choosing Florida lawmakers, Floridians will vote on five constitutional amendments later this year.
The race to make it to the Florida Capitol is heating up, and politicians are stockpiling loads of cash to help them secure a win in November to send them to Tallahassee next year.
Unlike the top war chests in the race for Florida House seats, the top Senate war chests are a mixed bag, with a slightly higher number of Democrats snagging a spot in the top 10. Republicans have six out of the top 10 seats, with four Democrats rounding out the group.
Newly redrawn district lines have created the perfect storm for competitive and expensive campaigns in 2016.
The race to make it to the Florida Capitol is heating up, and politicians are stockpiling loads of cash to help them secure a win in November to send them to Tallahassee next year.
Todd Wilcox hasn’t been around Florida politics for very long -- and he’s okay with that.
The group opposed to legalizing medical marijuana in Florida is back for round two to oppose a constitutional amendment legalizing the drug for medical purposes in 2016.
The Republican Party of Florida has rounded out its final list of delegates it will send to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention in July.
Over 600 people applied to be at-large delegates for the party. On Saturday, RPOF Chair Blaise Ingoglia recommended 15 candidates to be the party’s at large delegates at the party’s spring quarterly meeting in Tampa.
The delegate list includes:
Florida Senate hopefuls were busy raising big bucks for their campaigns during the month of April. Sunshine State News took a look at what the candidates in some of the state’s most hotly-contested Senate seats raised last month.
The Republican Party of Florida says it has a lot of work to do if it wants to get voters out to the polls this November.
At the party’s spring quarterly meeting in Tampa Friday, the minority engagement committee centered in about the GOP’s presumptive nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and how the party will try to reach out to its constituents in light of inflammatory comments Trump has made on the campaign trail.
Florida is at the center of a massive food stamp fraud bust with 22 people charged from allegedly collecting over $13 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by fraudulently trading food stamps for cash.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer, joined by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, among others, announced the charges Wednesday.
