The Washington Post is reporting that longtime First Coast political operative Susan Wiles, best known for her work with Jeb Bush and more recently with Rick Scotts campaign last year, has joined up with a potential Republican presidential candidate -- Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah who is now serving as ambassador to China. Wiles joins an impressive team which includes a number of former staffers to John McCain.
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One of the chief items on Gov. Rick Scotts economic agenda is the elimination of the corporate income tax -- and it looks like he will be getting help from a key committee in the Florida House.
Millions of Americans -- in fact, hundreds of millions throughout the world -- remember where they were and what they were doing 25 years ago Friday.
Rep. Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach, and Sen. Thad Altman, R-Viera, have reached out across the aisle to work together to craft a bill to extend benefits in Florida for recent veterans.
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Newly inaugurated Republican Sen. Marco Rubio announced his committee assignments in Washington Thursday, setting the stage for the issues he will focus on in his first years on the national stage.
Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Posey weighed in on Thursday after the U.S. House, now under Republican control, voted on Wednesday to end public funding of presidential campaigns and party conventions.
The president said he was willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without, said Posey, referring to the State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Newly inaugurated Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio announced his committee assignments on Thursday. Rubio, the former House speaker who is now considered one of the rising stars of the Republican Party and already the subject of buzz on the presidential ticket come 2012, will serve on these committees:Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Intelligence; Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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During a three-hour meeting Thursday morning with Enterprise Florida, Gov. Rick Scott said he will bring the public-private partnership and two other state agencies into a newly created department of commerce -- and house the department right next door to his office where he can give it the attention it deserves.
The House State Affairs Committee met on Thursday morning as they started examining one of the pressing issues that will dominate the 2011 session -- public employees pension plans. The committee, which is chaired by Rep. Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, gathered information on Thursday for the session which opens in March.
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Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, released a video update on committee work on Thursday. Gardiner touched base on issues ranging from education to the economic damage from the oil spill in the Gulf to the State of the Union.
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