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WSJ Columnist to Rubio: Get It All Out in the Open Now

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 4:32pm

Paul A. Gigot, the Wall Street Journal's shrewd observer of American politics, gives Marco Rubio's team high marks for its handling of the recent revelation that Rubio was a baptized member of the Mormon church when he was a young boy, when he joined with his mother and other family members while living in Las Vegas.

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Obama Health-Care Hikes Hit Military, Spare Unions; Vets Vow to Fight

Kenric Ward

February 27, 2012 - 6:00pm

Florida congressmen and veterans' groups on Tuesday blasted an Obama administration plan to double or triple Tricare medical premiums for active-duty and retired military personnel.

The sharply higher prices reportedly are designed to push service members and veterans out of the military's Tricare program and into Obamacare's insurance exchanges. The administration believes the move will cut Tricare costs by $1.8 billion in fiscal 2013 and $12.9 billion by 2017.

House and Senate to Begin Budget Conference Tonight

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 2:52pm

The final stumbling block impeding budget conference sessions from moving forward between the House and Senate has been cleared, House Speaker Dean Cannon said Tuesday afternoon.

Hopefully, well begin sometime this evening, Cannon said of the talks to reconcile the approximately $70 billion budgets from each chamber.

A news release a short time later set the first conference meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Judge Jackie Fulford, of Retirement System Case, Sidelined by Injuries

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 2:37pm

Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford, at the center of the dispute between state employees and the Legislature over employee contributions to the Florida retirement system, will be out until next week because of injuries she suffered in a biking accident, her office said Tuesday.

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Rick Santorum Holds Solid Lead Over Mitt Romney in Ohio Poll

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 28, 2012 - 2:35pm

With Arizona and Michigan holding their Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday, the race for the GOP nomination moves on to Washington state, which holds its caucus on March 3, and 11 states that hold caucuses and primaries on March 6 -- including delegate-rich Ohio.

With 66 delegates at stake, the Buckeye State, which holds a primary, ranks second behind Georgia as the biggest prize up for grabs on March 6.

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Marco Rubio: Still Not a Target of The Left?

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 2:17pm

Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubios team sent out an e-blast claiming: "Everyone from President Obama's press secretary, to Senator Harry Reid, to Obama's liberal campaign machines funded with millions of special-interest dollars [has] put Marco at the top of their enemies list.

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Liberals Opposing an Idea on Principle? Is This a Joke?

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 12:55pm

The Tallahassee Democrat today is running a column from Los Angeles Times writer Doyle McManus about the allegedly pernicious effect of too much money -- that's how libs refer to that thing the rest of us call "free speech" -- in American politics.

It contains this unintentional, I'm sure, howler of a line.

"Wealthy Americans are popping up all over to fund the new super-PACs, including liberals who might have been expected to oppose the idea on principle."

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Rick Scott Signs Death Warrant for David Alan Gore

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 12:45pm

Gov. Rick Scott has signed the warrant for David Alan Gore to be put to death for the 1983 rape and murder of a teenage girl on the Treasure Coast.

Gores execution is scheduled for April 12 at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison.

The death-row warrant is the fourth for Scott.

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Stalled Budget Talks May Extend Session into 'Tallahassee Spring'

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 11:40am

The Senate is looking to extend the regular session to complete the $70 billion budget if the House proposed cuts to higher education are approved.

With budget talks stalled between the House and Senate, senators told President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, on Tuesday that they continue to support him if the Legislature should return after the session ends March 9.

What is more important is we do it right, said Sen. Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando,

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Miami's Marlins Stadium Parking Tax Cut Strikes Out in House

Submitted by Anonymous on February 28, 2012 - 11:18am

The House, with members noting a staff analysis that called the deal potentially unconstitutional, rejected an amendment that would have provided a tax cut for the Miami Marlins' 5,700-space stadium parking garage complex.

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