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Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) is calling out his opponent, former Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL), for allegedly violating Sunshine State election laws as it appears she filmed herself inside a polling location. This is against Florida Statute 102.031(5) which states: “No photography is permitted in the polling room or early voting area, except an elector may […]
US Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting he accept the Seminole tribe’s disaster declaration request for damages caused by Hurricane Milton. According to the letter, Hurricane Milton impacted all Seminole Tribal lands in the state, with the most severe damage caused to the Tampa, […]
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has announced the Residential Emergency Asset Accumulation Deferred Taxation Yield (READY) Account Act, a bill designed to “create a tax-free savings vehicle for home mitigation and disaster response costs.” This allows citizens to create a tax-free account (similar to a Health Savings Account [HSA]) for 12 different mitigation measures used by […]
Florida Republicans on Sunday night blasted a comedian's "classless" Puerto Rico joke as "racist", prompted by his comments at former President Donald Trump's rally at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The conservative backlash is directed at comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—who's branded himself as a comedian who will "never apologize" for a joke—for telling the 20,000 Trump rally […]
Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio (R-FL), James Lankford (R-OK), and other upper chamber Republicans sent a scathing letter to Secretary Xavier Becerra of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In their correspondence, they accused HHS of compelling the speech of its employees regarding pronouns, limiting religious freedoms, and endangering women. In the […]
Former President Donald Trump hosted a historic, jam-packed campaign rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden (MSG). President Trump’s rally featured speeches by close political supporters and celebrities like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and several others. Sunday night’s rally was a defiant show of force by the Trump […]
After Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis rounded out five campaign events this week opposing a new measure legalizing weed, one of the Governor's top staffers has taken to social media to create and laud a list of who is voting "no" on the controversial, Trump-endorsed measure. While the Governor has eviscerated […]
Last WSJ Poll Before Elections Predicts Trump Victory A breaking Wall Street Journal (WSJ) poll predicts former President Donald Trump will return to the White House come November. The poll, conducted 12 days before election day, found President...READ MORE Casey DeSantis: This is a must watch! @GovRonDeSantis lays out the case why Amendment 3 is […]
Miami-Dade County, which has traditionally been a blue county, has now shifted red.
As most of the state gears up for the newly opened early voting, Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his fifth campaign event in one week against Florida's controversial ballot initiatives, slamming the proposed amendment to legalize marijuana as a "monstrosity" and "trainwreck" that will not pass. He spoke at a roundtable event with Surgeon General […]
A breaking Wall Street Journal (WSJ) poll predicts former President Donald Trump will return to the White House come November. The poll, conducted 12 days before election day, found President Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris 45 to 47%. The WSJ poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters across the nation and revealed voters prioritized issues such […]
Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R) joined the Miami City Commission in unveiling a $3.5 million investment in new affordable housing for senior citizens.
Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis warned against passing a proposed amendment legalizing marijuana because it will lead to weed black markets and a worsened fentanyl crisis, she worried. At her third campaign stop against the measure this week, called Amendment 3, DeSantis used many of the same points her husband, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, used […]
US Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jim Risch (R-ID) are accusing President Joe Biden of ignoring the law by failing to impose sanctions on illicit purchasers of Iranian oil. The Senators allege that President Biden has not imposed new sanctions despite being required to do so by the Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act. The […]
Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have joined 25 other upper chamber legislators in bringing forward the Stand With Israel Act, a bill that would cut U.S. funding to United Nations (UN) agencies that “expel, downgrade, suspend, or otherwise restrict the participation of the State of Israel.” Legislators alongside Sens. Scott and Rubio […]
Florida Marijuana Amendment Won't Punish a Weed Truck Running Over a Child, DeSantis Says Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday claimed that if a new marijuana amendment passes in November, the measure would legally protect a weed-carrying truck heading to a dispensary if it runs over a child...READ MORE Debbie Mucarsel-Powell: "Rick Scott voted to overturn […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday claimed that if a new marijuana amendment passes in November, the measure would legally protect a weed-carrying truck heading to a dispensary if it runs over a child. He blasted the initiative, called Amendment 3, at a Cape Coral press conference as a monopolized "weed cartel" that would allow the […]
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) recently joined Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) in promoting the Saving Privacy Act, a bill that aims to “end government abuse of Americans’ financial information.” The senators claim the federal government unreasonably collects too much of its citizen’s data without proper cause. For instance, the legislation would strengthen the protections of the […]
