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Richard Clark: Standing Up for Taxpayers and Cleaning Up Congress

April 12, 2012 - 6:00pm

Another in a series of profiles of candidates in Florida's 6th Congressional District.

Standing up to special pleaders at City Hall is good practice for Capitol Hill, says Richard Clark, a Republican candidate in Florida's 6th Congressional District.

"I've been fighting fees and taxes the whole way," says the seven-year councilman from Jacksonville.

"A lot of people, including Republicans, wanted us to put more money in the system. You have to be really strong because they come from all sides," Clark told Sunshine State News in an interview.

UF Ag Professor Highlights Texas A&M Student's 'Agvocates' Video

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 12:51pm

University of Florida Senior Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources Jack Payne is spreading a video produced by students from Texas A&M University to emphasize the importance of agriculture.

Beginning with university students, 'Farmers Fight' encourages consumers to ask where their food comes from, and give students, faculty, public officials, and farmers and ranchers an opportunity to become 'agvocates' for the agriculture community, Payne says.

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Voter 'Suppression'? Florida Democratic Registration Says Not

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 12:42pm

Florida Democrats announced Friday that they out-registered Republicans in March.

Democrats said they registered 4,405 more voters than Republicans, beating the GOP by 8 percentage points.

The Florida Democratic Party also boasted that Hispanics registered Democrat 46 percent of the time, versus 17 percent for Republicans.

Curiously unmentioned by the FDP was any reference to its widely alleged claims of "voter suppression" by Florida's election and registration laws.

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TaxWatch Tells Rick Scott to Cut 143 'Turkeys' from Florida Budget

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 11:37am

The annual Florida TaxWatch list of budget "turkeys" seeks line-item vetoes from the governor for 143 projects, worth $150.6 million, ranging from the Brevard Community College Public Safety Institute to a land purchase next to the governors mansion and a Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami.

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Emails, Calls to Governor's Office Favor Veto of USF-Polytechnic Bill

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 10:10am

As Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, expressed confidence Thursday that his efforts to advance University of South Florida-Polytechnic in Lakeland as an independent university will be supported by Gov. Rick Scott, public sentiment has been far heavier in the opposite direction.

As of Friday morning, the governors office has received 14,021 emails regarding the bill, SB 1994, that Scott has until April 21 to sign or veto.

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Jeff Atwater: Investigators Stop Workers' Comp Shell Company

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 9:55am

The owner of a Miami construction services company has been arrested for allegedly creating more than 250 fraudulent certificates of insurance to help uninsured contractors avoid $2.1 million in workers' compensation premiums, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced Friday.

Yucet Batista, 29, was arrested as the result of a joint investigation by the Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud and the Broward sheriffs office.

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CFO Jeff Atwater Endorses Gary Aubuchon in CD 19 Race to Succeed Connie Mack

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 9:37am

State Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater on Friday endorsed Gary Aubuchon's bid for the 19th Congressional District seat being vacated by Rep. Connie Mack, R-Naples.

Gary Aubuchon will change the financial mentality in Washington, said Atwater. He is the right man to cut spending, balance the budget and hold government accountable again.

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Florida Counties Plan Lawsuit over State's Medicaid Collection Effort

Submitted by Anonymous on April 13, 2012 - 9:23am

The Florida Association of Counties is preparing to file a lawsuit in Leon County to challenge the law, HB 5301, that will require counties to pay the state $325 million in disputed Medicaid bills.

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Counties Go to Court to Fight State Medicaid Billing

Jim Saunders News Service of Florida

April 11, 2012 - 6:00pm

In what it described as an "accounting mess,'' the Florida Association of Counties said Thursday it will file a lawsuit challenging the state's decision to try to tap counties for tens of millions of dollars in disputed Medicaid money.

The decision came two weeks after Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill that calls for the state to recoup the money -- and more than a month after counties frantically tried to fend off the measure in the Legislature.

David Alan Gore Executed after 28 Years on Death Row

Submitted by Anonymous on April 12, 2012 - 6:30pm

Condemned murderer David Alan Gore, whose crimes at the northern end of the Treasure Coast nearly three decades ago were called heinous by Gov. Rick Scott, was executed Thursday night.

Gore, 58, was put to death by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Stark.

Gore spent 28 years on death row for the 1983 death of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott in Vero Beach.

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