Florida Legislature

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 […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL— On general Election Day   Puerto Rico will hold its seventh plebiscite in which they ask for statehood, as the majority has decided in the last two votes -- 2017 and 2020. The vote is important because it will continue creating pressure on Congress to act and treat Puerto Ricans as equals. The seventh […]

Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) announced that the University of South Florida (USF) will receive nearly $14 million in a federal grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to support Affordable Care Act (ACA) “health navigators.” These navigators attempt to advise and assist families find the right healthcare plan for them. According to […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL— Rep. Carolina Amesty was indicted on four felony charges and booked into the Orange County Jail after a grand jury decided she had forged a signature on a document she notarized for a school run by her father. Investigated and first broken by the Orlando Sentinel, Amesty claimed in September 2021 that veteran […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Gov. Ron DeSantis fretted Thursday that if Kamala Harris becomes President, her administration would "wield the administrative state" against Florida and other governments that have banned transgender surgeries and hormones for minors. "Depending on how the outcome of the election goes, I could absolutely see a Harris administration try to wield the administrative state […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Prompted by social media posts poking fun at his Harvard University degree, Trump ally Rep. Randy Fine is calling on the Senate President and Speaker of the House to investigate Gov. Ron DeSantis' communications team. This is only the latest chapter in the ever-lengthening Fine v. DeSantis saga, which was sparked after DeSantis flew […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Despite Gov. Ron DeSantis' recent efforts to beef up Florida's healthcare and transportation systems, a new report analyzing public safety and infrastructure has ranked the Sunshine State in the abysmally low 44th position. In other words, Florida's in the bottom ten. "Florida's low emergency health care ranking and lengthy commutes outweigh its decent bridge […]