The scene outside Gov. Rick Scott's office Tuesday may have been even more acrimonious than the alimony bill awaiting his action.

Men, women and a handful of children crammed into a waiting room, some bearing posters and balloons, attempting to bully each other into changing their positions on one of the legislative session's most controversial measures, a proposal that would overhaul the state's alimony laws and change the way judges decide child time-sharing arrangements.

But after a two-hour standoff, the attempts at conversion were futile.

Florida orange industry got some good news as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) revised its forecast on Tuesday . 

The chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., brought out a bill this week helping veterans who lose their abilities to have children due to wounds. 

Miller, who is retiring from Congress, unveiled the bill on Monday. The proposal would help “veterans who have suffered a traumatic injury to their reproductive organs and who, as a result, cannot have children” with as much as $20,000 “which could be used at the veteran’s discretion, including for adoption fees or other personal expenses.”

On Tuesday, businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox, now running for the Republican nomination in Florida’s  U.S. Senate race, replied to Nick Tomboulides from US Term Limits who took aim at him in an email on Monday for refusing to sign his group’s term limits pledge. Wilcox’s response is included below followed by Toumboulides’ message:

I couldn't agree more with the principle on which US Term Limits was founded: citizen legislators, not career politicians.