The Florida Education Association, the state teachers union, complains the Florida House "is holding the final public hearing" of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break ... "when they hope (teachers) are not watching or listening."
Wah, wah, wah.
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Congress is out for one more week on its spring recess, and presumably the members of Congress are enjoying some quality family and constituent time. During a recent press event, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, R-FL vowed to sponsor and support legislation to repeal the federal health-care law and replace it with anti-health-care fraud legislation.
Efforts in DC and Florida to Repeal /replace and educate re: Health Care reform
Gubernatorial candidate Paula Dockery is trying to convince people she's a true conservative despite the fact (or perhaps because of the fact) that she's been siding with more liberal viewpoints and organizations.
For example, Friday afternoon Paula Dockery released an op-ed saying why she's siding with the state's largest teachers union and voted against a bill that would determine a teacher's salary based on performance.
She calls SB 6 an unaffordable "power grab" that will "destroy jobs" and eliminate individual responsibility.
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Florida House members will get their chance next week to debate at length a controversial education reform measure that would link teacher pay raises to student performance on standardized tests.
And public school teachers will be packing the room in protest of the legislation.
File this one under Things You Didn't Expect: St. Petersburg Times bigwig Paul Tash is a registered Republican.
On top of that, the Times CEO now sits on the 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee, which is designed to lure the 2012 Republican National Convention to the Bay Area.
Take a moment to recover from your shock.
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Gov. Charlie Crist's call to forward the investigation of former state Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer to the U.S. Attorney's Office is being hailed by some as an appropriate step. Others say it's pure political theatrics.
What did Gov. Charlie Crist know about Jim Greers alleged shenanigans and when did he know it?
And shouldnt the media be looking just as deeply into the fundraising and expenditure records of the Florida Democratic Party?
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"Diplomacy has failed," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told AIPAC, "Iran is on the verge of becoming nuclear and we cannot afford that."
"We have to contemplate the final option," said Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., "the use of force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon."
War is a "terrible thing," said Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., but "sometimes it is better to go to war than to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time."
