As expected, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will get his way during next week's special session to address the congressional redistricting process.
Just as national Conservative and Christian organizations support SB 1796, the Alimony Reform bill that will be landing on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk for signing, Progressive groups are expressing their opposition to the measure.Â
The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Florida dropped to $4.06 on Tuesday, as motorists get some relief from lower crude-oil prices, according to the AAA auto club.
Florida Rep. Channels his inner Miami Vice Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D) has been called many things, and now Floridians can say that the gay progressive activist could have a future on Broadway. Little Carlitos, who dressed up as a shorter Hispanic version of Detective Sonny Crocket from the 1980s television series “Miami Vice,” […]
TALLAHASSEE — An appeals court has rejected arguments that bars should receive money from the state and Orange County because they were forced to shut down or significantly scale back early in the COVID-19 pandemic. A panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal on Friday upheld an Orange County circuit judge’s dismissal of a […]
Burning it all Down Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat, is leaving Congress, but not before she burns it all down. The “moderate” congresswoman from the Orlando area continues to dress down Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives and Progressives for putting forth an unpopular legislative agenda that has all but compromised the […]
Fort Lauderdale – Florida State Rep. Chip LaMarca (R) appears set for another showdown against Linda Thompson Gonzalez (D) in defense of his District 93 state legislative seat. At a recent Broward county workshop breakfast where Rep. LaMarca gave a legislative update alongside Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book and State Sen. Shevrin Jones, The Floridian […]
After dressing down her Democratic Party for abandoning “moderate” lawmakers like herself, subsequently pushing her out of office, Rep. Stephanie Murphy recently appears on Showtime’s “The Circus” to opine on the state of the House of Representatives, while accusing House Republicans of “dismantling Democracy” and House Progressives of trying to “dismantle Capitalism.”
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 […]
