Florida Legislature

State Senator Jay Collins (R-FL) spoke to the media at the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) “Victory Dinner," during an interview The Floridian’s Javier Manjarres, State Sen. Collins said that the Amendment 4 ballot initiative  would enshrine the right to an abortion up to viability (although critics say it would allow it up till birth) […]

HOLLYWOOD, FL—The Republican Party of Florida hosted a "Victory Dinner" fundraising gala at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino Saturday night ahead of the Nov. 5 election, where Governor Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump and long-time party loyalist Rick Scott could face increasingly difficult battles in the Sunshine State. The dinner, wrought with donors, supporters, […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Now that over a trillion dollars has been invested in renewable energy worldwide, a new survey studying solar power use found that Florida is one of the best states for encouraging residential solar power. In other words, the Sunshine State deserves its name. Conducted by ElectricityRates.com, the report aimed to find the biggest challenges […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—A measure that would force Congress to recognize Puerto Rico as a state—if that's what the islanders vote for on November 5th—is working its way through Washington, D.C. as Floridian support for the potential 51st state in America grows. This is Congress's most recent attempt at pushing through the legislation, entitled the "Puerto Rico […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—As school shootings, dead students, and murdered educators become sickeningly more commonplace, a dark new trend has emerged to protect the most vulnerable: panic buttons on teachers. Attached to staff ID badges, teachers are told to press the button three times in an everyday emergency. For a school shooting? Don't stop pushing, the Washington […]

MIAMI - The Associated Industries of Florida, or AIF, announced additional endorsements Thursday for Florida Senate and House of Representative candidates running in the 2024 General Election. “We’re proud to announce AIF’s 2024 General Election endorsements for Florida Senate and House candidates. "These endorsements build on the slate of strong candidates we have already announced […]

With the State of Florida voting on Amendment 4 – enshrining the right to have abortions in the state constitution – Floridians can look to the results of other states that have similar laws to Sunshine State’s six-week ban on the procedure. Texas has the same six-week ban that was triggered following the reversal of […]

MIAMI-DADE, FL—Democratic Sen. Shevrin Jones, the chair of the party's Miami-Dade committee, is coming under fire from within after the group posted a seemingly innocuous Instagram video of a member urging Democrats to mobilize ahead of their "Blue Gala" event. The issue? The video's speaker is Oliver Gilbert, the Democratic Chairman of the Miami-Dade County […]

ORLANDO, FL—The Department of Children and Families hosted Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis at its annual summit in Orlando to discuss the leaps and bounds the government has made toward protecting vulnerable Floridians. The part that wasn't mentioned? The potential increase in DCF failures statewide. While the Governor has allocated billions to […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—A man who regularly posted that Jews should be "exterminated" was arrested and charged with eight felonies after he threatened to travel to Brevard County to murder Florida Rep. Randy Fine and his children because they're Jewish. “As an outspoken and unafraid Jewish Republican legislator, Nazis and Muslim terrorists make dozens if not hundreds […]

The influential Americans for Prosperity Action Florida (AFP Action FL) has come out with a list of 2024 general election candidate endorsements. In what can only be described as a significant political move to influence the Republican-led state legislature, AFP continues to push the "Florida free" narrative set forward by Governor Ron DeSantis “Florida’s primary […]

DAYTONA BEACH, FL—On the heels of his communications team trashing Donald Trump-allied Lawmakers out of step with the Governor's views, Gov. Ron DeSantis has accused Vice President Kamala Harris of not caring about Gold Star families as he rushed to Trump's defense Tuesday amid the swirling Arlington National Cemetery controversy. "He was invited by the […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Top Florida Democrat Rep. Anna Eskamani wrote Monday to the Department of Environmental Protection demanding to know how a "destructive" proposal to construct pickleball courts, golf courses, and hotels in state parks came to fruition—and how involved Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration was in the foiled plot. "Florida's state parks are the envy of the […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Donald Trump has once more put himself at odds with Gov. Ron DeSantis—this time over a recreational marijuana amendment—leading the Floridian's communications team to cyber-attack a Trump-allied lawmaker. Again. "It’s a shame that someone like [Sen. Joe Gruters] would support an amendment that has virtually no checks on where and how marijuana can be […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Fred Guttenberg, the father of a 14-year-old girl murdered at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, is challenging leading Trump ally Rep. Randy Fine to a debate after the Lawmaker doubled down on his plan to let college students carry guns on campus. Guttenberg called it lunacy. "It is lunatics like [Fine] who have made […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—A nonprofit organization opposed to the death penalty is accusing the Governor of being "calculated" and "hypocritical" in the Thursday evening execution of rapist and murderer Loran Cole, citing confusion over why the Legislature would honor victims of a horror boys' school that Cole attended but still choose to execute him. Floridians for Alternatives […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—When USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was finally charged with child sexual abuse months after the FBI first learned he was molesting teenage girls, Director Christopher Wray swore they would never allow a notoriously bungled Nassar-esque situation to happen again. Spoiler: they did. "Where is the accountability? Will anyone get demoted, reprimanded, or fired? […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—It's unlikely that a Floridian would stroll by Gov. Ron DeSantis winding down in Margaritaville—kicking back in a wind-ruffled Hawaiian shirt, a Pina Colada in hand, and dark sunglasses blocking out the Key West summer sun...but hey! It's Jimmy Buffett day; anyone can live their life like a song. (That's a Buffett quote if […]