To hear some folks in Riviera Beach tell it, redistricting is already a joke.
To hear some folks in Riviera Beach tell it, redistricting is already a joke.
On Sunday, as he continues his bid for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., named Brad Harold his campaign manager.
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Aside from chatter about the partisan skew of a Senate redistricting plan selected Wednesday by Leon County Circuit Judge George Reynolds, the biggest question about the new lines is how they might alter the future of incumbent senators who hope to run again in 2016.
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
In true 2015 style, social media dominated the news scene in Florida and national politics. Websites like Twitter, Facebook, and apps like Periscope vastly altered the way politicos received news in 2015.
Shortly after the 2016 legislative session goes through its opening rituals, the House and Senate will take up a statewide water-policy proposal more than two years in the making.
The proposal (SB 552 and HB 7005), which sped through legislative committees, has attracted some last-minute opposition from environmental groups that contend it wouldn't go far enough to ensure clean waterways.
But the package, a priority of Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, is expected to quickly win approval from the House and Senate.
The new year promises to be a busy one in Florida politics even as the presidential race dominates the headlines.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., is going to bat for a congressman in South Florida and Democrats are looking to make an issue of it.