As he readies for events in Miami on Friday night and Jacksonville on Saturday, businessman Donald Trump named two leading Republicans as the chairs of his Florida presidential team: Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) Vice Chairman Joe Gruters and veteran GOP operative Susie Wiles.
Gov. Rick Scott showcased Florida’s economic growth on Friday, noting that the Sunshine State was outpacing other large states on job creation.
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Former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Lincoln Chafee, D-R.I., announced on Friday he was ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Lincoln Chafee, D-RI, announced on Friday he was ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday and members of the Florida delegation, like most members of Congress, divided on party lines over her testimony.
With 2016 around the corner, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) will be hosting the Sunshine Summit in Orlando from Nov. 12-14 and the stakes will be high. The presidential hopefuls will take most of the spotlight but there’s another important race already taking shape as Rubio has said he will not run for a second Senate term. Florida Republicans Ron DeSantis, David Jolly, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Todd Wilcox are already off and running and they will be at the Sunshine Summit trying to win support for their Senate bids.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., is backing U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., to replace outgoing U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, as speaker of the House.
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The 2016 regular session may be a few months away, but a bill hoping to allow gun owners to openly carry their firearms in Florida has already begun to cause a commotion across the Sunshine State.
Doesn't anyone else think it's time the public found out who funded the coalition of groups suing the Legislature over its redistricting maps? Who paid plaintiff attorney David King?God knows, it wasn't the League of Women Voters of Florida. The Capitol Press Corps had more money in its scholarship fund during 2012 and than the League had. Check out the LWV's tax returns in the attachment below.
Need a little proof that lobbying will be heavy during the 2016 session about whether grocery shoppers should be able to load their baskets with vodka and gin while picking up some eggs and cereal?
Publix, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits and the Florida Independent Spirits Association this week joined forces to keep walls --- the actual solid masonry kind --- between grocery aisles and rows of liquor.
