When Florida Democratic leaders meet next weekend to pick a new party chair, a dozen counties will not participate in the vote.
The counties, which are small, rural communities, each lack a formal party organization, known as a local Democratic Executive Committee, disqualifying them from the vote.
This column is a vehicle for a number of items in a bits-and-pieces, strictly opinion, sometimes irreverent format. Look for "Just Sayin'" to run once a week in this spot.
Barack Obama's Anti-Israel Legacy
Many of my colleagues tell me their biggest beef with the Obama administration is the doomed Affordable Care Act.
It's not mine.
For me, the most egregious failure of this administration has been President Obama's determination at every turn to pull the rug out from under the state of Israel.
UPDATED: In a 5:15 p.m. press conference at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, Gov. Rick Scott called the deadly mass shooting at the airport earlier in the day an "evil act," that Florida will not tolerate. "My heart goes out to every family impacted," he said. "We won't rest until we make sure we've done everything in our power to make sure this never again happens here."
On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., brought back his proposal to help get Puerto Rico’s economy back in the right direction.
Yo ho, yo ho, it's a pirate's life for college football fans, who will head to Tampa Bay this weekend for the College Football Playoff National Championship.
With the new 115th Congress commencing this week, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., focused on veterans issues.
Our elected officials at the state and local level drop everything in the hours, days and weeks following the horror of a terrorist attack to show up. They set up makeshift offices to make themselves available to the community, they light candles at prayer services and meet with the grieving families. I am sure they do these things because they care and because their presence somehow reassures people that someone is in charge and taking care of things.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, took to the House floor to speak in support of a non-binding resolution opposing a UN Security Resolution calling Israeli settlement in disputed territory “illegal.”
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., took to the House floor on Thursday to propose a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution on campaign finance reform.
A Florida congressman launched a bill this week to pull the plug on congressional pensions.
