Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been indicted on public corruption charges and is expected to arraigned in federal court in Jacksonville on Friday, two U.S. law enforcement officials said Thursday. The charges are related to the Jacksonville Democratic lawmaker’s involvement with an unregistered charity in Virginia. The officials, citing grand jury…
By JIM TURNER NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE — The 2016 Florida Legislature appears to have been the richest in recent history. And a couple of incoming freshmen, recently elected without opposition, could help make the 2017 class even wealthier. The makeup of the 160 members of the 2016 Legislature, considered a “part-time” lawmaking body…
News Service of Florida – Jim Turner Floridians won’t get to cast a ballot for more than one-fourth of the people in charge of making laws and piecing together the state budget over the next two years. Of the 160 offices that make up the Florida House and Senate, 42 drew only a single candidate…
LobbyTools More than one-third of the House races were affected by the qualifying period which ended June 24. House District 4 — Christopher Eugene Schwantz joined the race as a write-in, closing the crowded Republican primary to GOP voters. House District 8 — NPA Richard Burns did not qualify for House District 8. Frantz Millien…
LOBBYTOOLS Several state Senate races saw shake-ups in the final moments of the qualifying period which ended June 24. Senate District 1 — Two write-in candidates, Aaron Matthew Erskine and Miriam Woods, have joined the Senate District 1 race. That closes the Republican primary between Reps. Mike Hill and Doug Broxson to GOP voters. Senate…
Sunshine State News With his friend and ally Marco Rubio running for a second term in the Senate, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera bowed out of the Senate race on Wednesday morning. Lopez-Cantera met with Rubio last week after the jihadist terrorist attack in Orlando and urged his friend to run for a second term. On…
Sunshine Sate News – Allison Nielsen Florida’s Senate races reeled in the dough for the month of May, and politicos statewide were getting busy raising big money for their campaigns. With only five months left until the November general election, candidates are gearing up to a big summer of fundraising, and the numbers are just…
Sunshine State News It seems strange, and a little vexing, to hear so few Democrats lamenting the impending loss of so many spectacular women in their caucus — some of the Florida Legislature’s most significant figures. I wonder if they really understand how much their landscape will change after November, that in the blink of an…
CBS News Miami TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Dozens of candidates formally stepped into races for state offices across Florida on Monday, but the most closely watched possible campaigner remained silent about his plans. The first day of qualifying ended without any definitive word from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio about whether he would seek re-election. Rubio, who…
Sunshine State News U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., will forego his Senate bid to replace Marco Rubio and instead will run for re-election in CD 13, Jolly announced Friday. “I have unfinished business,” Jolly told reporters in St. Petersburg. “I believe the opportunity to serve Pinellas County is just as right [as Senate bid]” said…