Taking a page out of President Donald Trump and Sen. Rick Scott's political payday playbook, Combat Veteran and congressional candidates Cory Mills has just come out and said that he will donate his entire congressional salary (if he wins) to charity and will not invest, or allow his family or staff to invest in the stock market while he is in...
Family First Senate Alimony Bill 1796 is garnering unprecedented support from Conservative and Christian-based organizations across the country.
Even as the congressional district lines across the state have yet to be finalized as a result of the dragged-out redistricting process, Republicans vying to replace retiring Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D) in Florida’s 7th District continue to campaign in the district that may drastically change in the coming weeks. Two of the candidates considered frontrunners in that contentious primary race—Rep....
Freshman Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) was unable to attend her town hall meeting on Friday after contracting COVID-19. A congressional staffer told The Floridian that Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick was slated to address a small group of mostly small business owners at her Tamarac regional office, but had to cancel her appearance after testing positive for the […]
Several of the most pragmatic Democratic lawmakers—Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, Sens. Jason Pizzo and Shevrin Jones—have come to side with Gov. DeSantis on key legislative issues, including school testing, funding for Visit Florida, and the overall state budget.
Jared Perdue, who has led the Department of Transportation’s District Five in Central Florida, was named Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve as state transportation secretary. Perdue has been with the state agency for about 18 years and replaces former Secretary Kevin Thibault, who stepped down from the $200,000-a-year position to become chief executive […]
DeSantis Will get his way JUICE—The “special session” to address the congressional redistricting maps is a little over a week away and it appears that Gov. Ron DeSantis will get his way. Depending on which legislator you speak to—Republican or Democrat—the consensus is that the Republican-led state legislature will concede to DeSantis and redraw […]
Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fuming mad over a recent comment that Republican senator Josh Hawley made in regard to Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
Fort Lauderdale—The Broward Workshop held a “Board of Directors” meeting on Wednesday and invited State Senators Shevrin Jones (D) and Lauren Book (D), and State Rep. Chip LaMarca (R) to give the group a summary of the newly-concluded 2022 Florida legislative session.
Businesswoman and educator Carolina Amesty has announced that she has raised $250,000 for her campaign for House District 45 campaign, with $200,000 of that total coming in the form of a personal loan. Amesty, who recently received the endorsement of Conservative State Rep. Joe Harding has been able to collect $50,000 in just under 4 […]
JUICE—Florida Politics' Juicy Read — 4.6.2022 —Gov DeSantis Crushing Fried, Democrats in Fundraising
You know the story about David versus Goliath, right? This year in Florida politics, Gov. Ron DeSantis is Goliath and the Florida Democratic Party is David, but it looks like Goliath is going to get the best of little Davy. Gov. Ron DeSantis has hauled in $5 million for his reelection bid just last […]
Former Marco Rubio staffer and state senate candidate Alina Garcia will not be running in State Senate District 38, and will be filing paperwork to run in House District 115, the seat Rep. Vance Alupis, Jr. (R) is vacating. Garcia’s decision to run for Rep. Alupis’s seat is sound, this considering that the seat leans […]
Floridian’s Support Parental Rights in Education Another independent poll is showing what many Democrats refuse to accept—Floridians support the Parental Rights in Education law. “By the largest margin, 87% of Floridians somewhat or strongly agreed that parents have a right to see what curriculum is used in their children's classrooms. An additional 87.4% agreed that […]
While world leaders fear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could be just the beginning of a broader military incursion into Eastern Europe, President Vladimir Putin’s next big hostile move could be against the U.S. through Latin America, with his heavy and growing military footprint inside Socialist Venezuela. Russian threat to the Western Hemisphere has been […]
A new image has emerged on Twitter of the new Florida Capitol sign appearing to be vandalized over the recently signed "Parental Rights in Education" law. LGBTQ activists have already filed lawsuits to counter the law Gov. Ron DeSantis signed, and Progressive lawmakers like Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D) are at the tip of the […]
Family First DeSantis Gov. Ron DeSantis is a big family man and his recent support and signing into law of the “Parental Rights in Education” is just one piece of his bigger “Family First” agenda for Florida. Now Gov. DeSantis could bolster his “Family First” bona fides with another stroke of his pen by […]
While the Florida First agenda that Gov. Ron DeSantis has put forth since taking office has catapulted the state’s profile across the nation, the Family First initiative, which includes his Parental Rights in Education law, he has also championed has set Florida apart from the other states. Like many other dads, including myself, Gov. DeSantis, […]
Republicans across the country are praising Rep. Thomas Massie’s ‘Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act (H.R.6590)’ after the bill’s filing in early February 2022. Among the measure's co-sponsors are Florida Reps. Matt Gaetz, Bill Posey, and Daniel Webster. The bill ends the federal government’s practice of double-taxing Social Security benefits. But as more and more Republican […]
