John Morgan does not appear to have learned his lesson from Amendment 2.
Morgan was back in the news last week as he wrote a check for $150,000 to get another medical marijuana amendment on the ballot in 2016. Amendment 2 lost by a narrow margin, just failing to get 60 percent in a year when conservatives came out in droves to vote. Medical marijuana supporters hope they’ll have a better shot come 2016.
Former Jacksonville City Council President Matt Carlucci is staying on the Florida Commission on Ethics.
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Daniel Diaz Leyva came up short against Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, D-Miami, in the 2014 elections but the Republican attorney landed on the Miami Dade College District Board of Trustees.
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Another election, another surprise. Actually, two elections, in two countries last weekend, with surprisingly pleasant surprises. And in two very large countries: Turkey (population 82 million) and Mexico (119 million), both very important to the United States.
Like the flora speckling the Capitol grounds, tensions between GOP House and Senate leaders appear to be wilting as lawmakers prepare to finalize a budget before the special session ends next week.
Appropriations subcommittee chairs congratulated one another on jobs well done before passing unresolved "bump issues" to the budget chiefs, who cordially took up the mantle midweek with no apparent memory of who would be left without a dance partner.
Some environmental groups have more money than they do brains. Meet the Everglades Trust.
They don't learn.
First, as the legislative session began in March, this "501(c)(4) corporation of non-elected board appointees" -- "committed to keeping Florida's water flowing clean and safe" -- launched a fact-twisted, six-figure TV, radio and online campaign to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. land.
It did nothing for them but make new enemies.
The Florida Legislature is moving full-speed ahead to complete the state budget by the end of next week, and it looks as if Floridians can expect a wave of tax cuts for the next two years.
The already crowded field running to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in Congress could soon grow even larger as Belinda Keiser, the vice chancellor for Keiser University, Everglades University and other proprietary institutions, is weighing entering the race.
With the Castro regime threatening to charge democracy activist Gustavo Pérez Silverio as a terrorist, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republican voices on foreign affairs, took to the House floor on Thursday.
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