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The Florida Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis have done it their way as the 2021 legislative session comes to an end today. The Republican-led governing body swung for the fences many times over the past two months and found itself circling the bases over and over and over.
During a recent Zoom call with Sarasota Democrats, Rep. Charlie Crist (D), who is mulling over a challenge to Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, spoke candidly and praised efforts by Democrats to defeat former President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Crist that because President Joe Biden won his race by so many votes, that he didn't think...
Freshman Florida Rep. Kat Cammack (R) did so, criticizing the President, saying that Biden “glazed over” the “crisis” at the border, and going after Vice President Kamala Harris (D).
Republicans in the Florida Legislature press the nuclear button on Wednesday and nuked Democrats' hopes that ballot drop boxes would continue to be used in future elections.
Because there was limited seating at President Joe Biden’s (D) State of the Union address, some Florida lawmakers were not able to attend. In turn, freshman Florida Rep. Byron Donald's (R) live-tweeted during the President’s address and criticized Biden's agenda, questioning the choices he has made in guiding the United States into the future.
All eyes were on the Joint Address to Congress President Joe Biden (D) made Wednesday night where he discussed what his administration has accomplished and the work that lies ahead. While Senator Tim Scott (R) provided the Republican response to Biden’s address, Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) issued a response, criticizing the Biden administration in much the same way that...
This week, the Anti-Defamation League announced that “U.S. antisemitic incidents remained at a historic high in 2020.”
State Senator Joe Gruters (R), who is also serving as the Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, and Florida Republicans are cheering today as the Chairman’s legislation regarding the 2nd Amendment passed the Senate this Tuesday.
Rick Scott (R) has issued a statement to the Biden administration, urging it to keep the sanctions currently in place while also asking the administration to focus on ending the Maduro regime.
Some Conservative activists appear to be turning on Gov. Ron DeSantis over his push to sign Big Tech legislation that according to them, lacks teeth to really make a difference.
With the legislative session in Tallahassee coming to a close, Conservative activists took to the streets, specifically “Trump corner” in Palm Beach County, to call out Gov. Ron DeSantis and State Rep. Blaise Ingoglia as "incompetent and "malicious," and demanded that they and other state legislators, “get off their asses and do the right thing” regarding the Big Tech bill...
With Florida’s legislative session just days away from concluding, Conservative activists Laura Loomer, Michele Malkin, Nick Fuentes, and others, will gather at famed “Trump corner” near Mar-A-Lago to rally against DeSantis' Big Tech legislation put forth by the Republican-led state legislature.
Demings continues to fire back at Republican leadership, slamming Republicans for spreading "untruths" while also praising the controversial Green New Deal that has faced opposition from both sides of the aisle.
One critic has been Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) who directed verbal jabs over Twitter, asking for Governor DeSantis to "make an earnest effort" to ensure that vaccines are accessible to minority communities.
Drawing the Congressional Lines in the Sand Well, so much for Florida getting two new congressional seats after the Census dust settled. Florida is only getting one new seat, and while that will bring tip the scales in favor of Republicans, it won’t have the impact that two congressional seats would have. Now those […]
Florida Rep. Shevrin Jones (D) shared his thoughts regarding the bill, discussing saying that it would only further “blatant voter suppression.”
It’s the final week of the 2021 legislative session in Florida and would you believe me if I told you that the week is starting off in an uneventful way?
Freshman Democratic lawmaker Kristen Arrington (D) may have violated both HIPAA policy as well as House HR rules by publicly outing her transgender House aide as transgender via Twitter.