Bondi slams SBA chief for $10K public records bill
Attorney General Pam Bondi took State Board of Administration executive director Ash Williams to task after Williams gave a state senator a bill for more than $10,000 for a public records request....
View ArticleHaridopolos agrees to CFO Atwater’s request for public meeting on SBA investment
Senate President Mike Haridopolos has agreed to call in State Board of Administration executive director Ash Williams to answer questions about a $125 million investment after Chief Financial Officer...
View ArticleLong-awaited prescription drug database up and running
After nearly a decade, Florida doctors can now check out their patients’ prescription drug history in an online database aimed at curbing “doctor-shopping” and other illicit pain pill abuses. The...
View ArticleUPDATE: Senate prez Haridopolos gives prison privatization bill another...
UPDATE: Senate President Mike Haridopolos’ spokeswoman Lyndsey Cruley issued a correction to the privatization bill committee stops. Haridopolos is giving the bill (SB 2038) reviving last year’s...
View ArticleSenate president Haridopolos strips anti-privatization Fasano of committee...
In a rare use of political muscle, Senate President Mike Haridopolos has stripped Sen. Mike Fasano – a fierce opponent of prison privatization – of his post as chairman of the Criminal and Civil...
View ArticlePartisan scuffle over privatization and tax breaks yields hot air and jerked...
Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich got the last word in a partisan flame war with Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner over firing prison workers vs. closing a corporate tax loophole. Rich launched the...
View ArticlePrison privatization going down on Tuesday?
Sen. Mike Fasano insists he and opponents of a sweeping prison privatization measure slated for a Senate vote on Tuesday still have enough votes to kill the bill. Senate President Mike Haridopolos...
View ArticlePrison privatization study dies on close vote
With a 21-19 vote, a sharply divided Senate rejected an amendment that would have done away with a sweeping prison privatization effort, but doubts remain over whether GOP leaders =have the support to...
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Fasano says Scott ad accusing Crist of swindle “as low as you can get”
Republican Mike Fasano A prominent Republican and a Panhandle police chief who is a Democrat railed Thursday against Gov. Rick Scott for a television ad in which an investor says he was “swindled” by...
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The first what if’s emerging if state shutdown comes in July
Pasco Tax Collector Mike Fasano raises some what if’s with state shutdown. Pasco County Tax Collector Mike Fasano is a former longtime state House member and senator. And he’s also an advocate for...
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