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Looking Back on the Two Cuban-American Also-Rans

May 16, 2016 - 7:00am

John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state (sorry, Hillary Clinton fans), thought that Cuba would inevitably become part of the United States. It hasn't, at least not yet, but two Cuban-Americans were serious presidential contenders this year.

Dwight Bullard Has to Go, Isn't Money-Connected Enough for FDP

May 16, 2016 - 6:00am
Dwight Bullard and Ana Rivas Logan

The Florida Democratic Party, for all its disdain for rich Republicans and the privileged "1 percent," is doing its best to find and run for office the wealthiest, best connected silver-spoon candidates -- even if they have to step over longtime party loyalists to do it.

Voters Still Have Plenty of Choices Without Open Primaries

May 16, 2016 - 6:00am

Most Florida voters have some vitally important choices to make in this year’s primary election in late August. Republicans and Democrats have some key choices to make, but some want to expand the voter pool.

RPOF At-Large Delegate List Includes Lobbyists, Politicians and Friends of Trump

May 14, 2016 - 2:30pm
Joe Negron, George LeMieux and Richard Corcoran

The Republican Party of Florida has rounded out its final list of delegates it will send to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention in July.

Over 600 people applied to be at-large delegates for the party. On Saturday, RPOF Chair Blaise Ingoglia recommended 15 candidates to be the party’s at large delegates at the party’s spring quarterly meeting in Tampa.

The delegate list includes:

Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP?

May 14, 2016 - 7:00am

"No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today."

You're Fired!

Florida Senate Contenders Raise Big Bucks in April

May 13, 2016 - 10:15pm
Dana Young, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla and Anitere Flores

Florida Senate hopefuls were busy raising big bucks for their campaigns during the month of April. Sunshine State News took a look at what the candidates in some of the state’s most hotly-contested Senate seats raised last month.

Weekly Roundup: Waiting to Inhale

May 13, 2016 - 9:30pm

With all due respect to Kermit the Frog, it's getting easier to be green in Florida.

With more than 3,000 people descending on Central Florida for the nation's premiere cannabis business trade show this week, and a new poll again showing that voters seem poised to approve wide-ranging medical marijuana, it looks increasingly like the state might be going to pot.

Help for the St. Lucie Estuary (No Thanks to Your Federal Government)

May 14, 2016 - 6:00am
Nonworking Ten Mile Creek in 2010

When the federal government hands you a lemon, it's like doing business with a shady used car dealer. Tough luck, buster.

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