Veteran Republican strategist Mark McKinnon peered into a crystal ball and sees former Gov. Jeb Bush on the horizon for the GOP in 2016 in a piece on The Daily Beast.
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Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is seriously considering running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, focused on a new policy from the U.S. Postal Service in an e-mail sent out to supporters on Wednesday.
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Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney appeared on Neil Cavutos show on Fox Business on Tuesday night to talk about federal fiscal issues. Rooney called for increasing the debt ceiling but also demanded spending cuts.
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Florida TaxWatch and the Reason Foundation teamed up to create a study on how government and businesses can work together to reform the corrections system. The study, entitled Corrections 2.0: A Proposal to Create a Continuum of Care in Corrections through Public-Private Partnerships, can be found here. The study estimate that Florida can save between $71.2 million and $101.7 million through reforms resulting from public-private partnerships (PPPs).
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Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, offered a video update to his constituents on Tuesday, keeping them current about committee work in Tallahassee. Gaetz focused on a key piece of his legislation for his Panhandle district -- the Oil Spill Recovery Act. In the update, Gaetz cheered the passage of his bill through committee.
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Automakers would be granted more protection from lawsuit losses in crash cases under a measure that got its first committee hearing Tuesday in a battle pitting business groups and the Republican-led Legislature against trial attorneys.
In a meeting with the Senate Republican Caucus Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott said he anticipates an announcement in the coming weeks of a corporate relocation to Florida.
Neither Scott nor his spokesperson, Brian Burgess, had further details, but the news certainly can't hurt Scott's goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years.
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WASHINGTON -- The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the "climate of hate" created by Sarah Palin, the tea party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare opponents and sundry other liberal betes noires.
A controversial bill that would place a constitutional amendment on the ballot -- allowing the state to opt out of the individual mandate portion of the federal health-care law passed last year -- cleared another hurdle in the Senate Tuesday.
With Florida placing fifth in Education Weeks Quality Counts survey of the states, the Foundation for Floridas Future (FFF), founded by former Gov. Jeb Bush, cheered the news -- and called for new Gov. Rick Scott to keep pushing by embracing "bold reforms."
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