August 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
Will Weatherford to Call Hearing on 'Stand Your Ground' law
Submitted by Anonymous on August 2, 2013 - 10:45am
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford says he'll be asking the chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee to hold a hearing to review the controversial Stand Your Ground law in the fall. Weatherford said the law's value and effectiveness should be reviewed in an op-ed piece published Friday in the Tampa Tribune.
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State Board of Education to Appoint Interim Commissioner
Submitted by Anonymous on August 2, 2013 - 10:02am
The State Board of Education will meet Friday to appoint an interim commissioner of education after Tony Bennett officially resigned from his position Thursday morning.
Bennett suggested appointing public school chancellor Pam Stewart to take his place. Stewart served as interim commissioner before Bennett took the position last year.
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Stand Your Ground Backed by Majority of Americans
August 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
Stand Your Ground Gets Support of Majority of Voters
Submitted by Kevin Derby on August 2, 2013 - 9:39am
A national poll unveiled on Friday shows a majority of American voters support Stand Your Ground laws. Quinnipiac University released a poll which shows 53 percent of voters favor Stand Your Ground laws while 40 percent oppose them.
The poll shows major divisions on race. While 57 percent of white voters favor Stand Your Ground, the same percentage of black voters oppose it. Only 37 percent of black voters support Stand Your Ground and the same percentage of white voters oppose it.
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Ron Paul Group to Hold Training Sessions in Florida
Submitted by Kevin Derby on August 2, 2013 - 9:25am
The Campaign for Liberty, which is chaired by former Congressman Ron Paul, will be holding political training sessions in Florida next month. They will be hosting an event at The Villages on Sept. 7 before heading to Jacksonville the next day.
John Tate, the president of the Campaign for Liberty, sent out an email to supporters late Thursday promising the sessions would provide proven methods for forcing change in the Legislature. He also wrote that the events would cover politics at the federal level.
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John Morgan: Medical Marijuana is about Morality, not Politics
August 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
How fractured is the GOP?
August 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
WASHINGTON -- A combination of early presidential maneuvering and internal policy debate is feeding yet another iteration of that media perennial: the great Republican crackup. This time it's tea party insurgents versus get-along establishment fogies fighting principally over two things: (a) national security and (b) Obamacare.
Florida Council of 100 Thanks Tony Bennett
Submitted by Nancy Smith on August 1, 2013 - 9:10pm
The Florida Council of 100 released the following statement Thursday evening from Chairman Marshall Criser III, regarding the resignation of Commissioner of Education Tony Bennett. Here is the statement in full:
"The Florida Council of 100 would like to offer our sincere thanks to Tony Bennett for the time he shared with us in Florida. Though far too brief, our students and our education system are better for his leadership, and we wish Tony and his family all the best in the future.
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Where's Charlie Crist?
July 31, 2013 - 6:00pm
Nan Rich showed. She may have flip-flopped on her Stand Your Ground vote in 2005, but at least we saw her there among the protesters at the Capitol, so we know she's agin' the law now. Charlie Crist, on the other hand ...
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