Trailing badly in the polls behind Republican candidate Marco Rubio and newly independent Gov. Charlie Crist, Congressman Kendrick Meek spoke to the AFL-CIO convention in Jacksonville on Saturday morning, desperately seeking their endorsement.
The NAACP and the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to have Amendment 7, a legislatively-drafted redistricting proposal, tossed from the November ballot, saying it is dishonest.
We feel that this is a trick amendment and a blatant effort to fool the voters, said League of Women Voters President Deirdre Macnab. Other plaintiffs include former Comptroller Bob Milligan and former environmental official Nathaniel Reed, both Republicans.
A century-old provision of the Florida Constitution may soon be dusted-off for the first time before the state Supreme Court, with the fate of millions of dollars in state funding to religious organizations hanging in the balance.
The states First District Court of Appeal is asking justices to decide whether Florida has violated its constitutional ban on state money going to any church, sect, or religious denomination, or in aid of any sectarian institution.
Florida's tourism industry has yet to receive the $25 million in emergency cash it needs to immediately advertise that Floridas beaches are open and unsullied by oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, and there is still no word of when or how the industry will receive the money promised by BP earlier this week.
Florida is poised to extend the life of a program that exempts nearly 171,200 residents from the Medicaid program in favor of giving them greater choice in selecting health care providers,and the Agency for Health Care Administration spent Friday afternoon reviewing the program and seeking input for the program. .
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The anticipation building Friday at the Florida AFL-CIO's meeting in Jacksonville was as thick as confetti on election night, as high-profile political candidates with high hopes began passionately courting labor leaders during the union's 2010 endorsement convention.
The U.S. Senate spent a precious five weeks of floor time debating the financial reform bill and passed the bill Thursday night by a vote of 59 to 39 before leaving for the week.
Gov. Charlie Crist just finished a speech to the AFL-CIO and the crowd adored him. Unlike Congressman Kendrick Meek, the leading Democrat in the race for the U.S. Senate, who recieved tepid applause when he was mentioned by Sen. Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville, Crist got enthusiastic backing from the rank and file. When Crist left, the meeting came to a screeching halt since a large number of the attendees, especially members of teacher unions thankful for his veto of SB 6, crowded around the governor.
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Today's reported drop in Florida's unemployment rate from 12.3 percent to 12 percent is better news than a seemingly minor drop of 0.3 percent might indicate. Nearly 16,000 more people found work than lost work in the month of April. That's the first time that's happened since February of 2006.
And for anyone who's keeping track, it's the first time since Gov. Charlie Crist took office in 2007 that the numbers didn't get worse.
Unfortunately, according to an AP report, brightening hopes may be tinged with a brown oil sheen come next month.
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