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- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Feb 14, 2012
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Florida Senate prison privatization bid falls short
Dockery called the privatization bill a solution in search of a problem.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 27, 2011
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Mike Bennett officially a candidate in Florida Congressional District 11 race
Bennett may pose a serious challenge to Castor, depending on how the new district is drawn.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 9, 2011
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Mike Bennett on wanting to make it harder for Floridians to vote
In recent weeks, Bennett has made no secret of his desire to run for Congress next year against Kathy Castor.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Apr 8, 2011
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The Water Cooler: Fla. U.S. Senate field additions? And, the biggest sham in America.
The Florida U.S. Senate race continues to look like another Bill Nelson victory forthcoming in November 2012. The current crop of candidates, which includes Senate President Mike Haridopolos and former State Rep. Adam Hasner remains rather unaccomplished and uninspiring.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Mar 8, 2011
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Florida Tea Party unveils its agenda and tax pledge on 1st day of Legislative session
Tea parties in general are pro-business and pro businesses that can help spur our economy," Tea Party in Action's Marianne Moran said. "But we're definitely against any special interest that would put more taxes and more regulations and burdens on regular Floridians."
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Feb 7, 2011
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Florida Legislature inexorably moves towards bill targeting illegal immigrants - even though the number of them in Florida is down
These bills are an attack to our immigrant communities who have greatly contributed to Florida’s progress," said Juan Pablo Chavez from the Florida Immigrant Coalition." It is impossible to enforce them without racially profiling any person who looks foreign, including citizens, tourists and businesspeople who visit the sunshine state.”
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Feb 6, 2011
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Amanpour soars again in providing best Sunday morning coverage of events in Egypt
The best part of This Week was Amanpour's round table from Cairo, which included the New York Times Anthony Shahid, the BBC's John Simpson, and Egyptian journalists Lamia Radi, and Nadia abou el-Magd,
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jan 13, 2011
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Kriseman files bill in Florida House that would lengthen state legislators' terms in office
. Because legislators only serve for eight years at a time, those who have ambitions of becoming say, House Speaker or Senate President begin lobbying sometimes for such positions before they're even elected into the Legislature.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jan 11, 2011
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Florida State Senator Mike Bennett on his illegal immigration bill: "I may not even vote for it myself"
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Dec 9, 2010
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Undeterred by court ruling, Bradenton state Senator Mike Bennett determined to revive controversial SB 360 law
Bennett plans to file separate proposals on affordable housing, security camera requirements and how the state determines whether a mandate is unfunded. That last issue scuttled the Legislature's most recent attempt at growth management changes.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Dec 2, 2010
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William Snyder says he wants Hispanic buy-in before he'll push his anti illegal immigration bill
A spokesman for Rick Scott says he remains extremely interested in how the legislation will play out. And why not? Scott rode the anti-illegal immigration sentiment strongly in his contest against Bill McCollum, then essentially dropped the issue entirely as he searched for Latino votes in the general.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Dec 1, 2010
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Always a moderating voice on the right regarding immigration, Jeb Bush now calls for "border security" first
But although Harry Reid and others in the Democratic Party are certainly guilty of playing cynical politics on the issue, Bush surely knows that its members of his party who have been far more divisive on the matter
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jul 15, 2010
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As special session beckons, mixed signals on whether they'll be serious discussion on renewable energy
n the days since Crist called for the session to be held to discuss putting a constitutional amendment on the November state ballot that would let citizens decide whether to ban offshore drilling in state waters, lawmakers have been discussing using the four days to discuss other pressing matters, such as changing laws to help Panhandle area citizens deleteriously affected financially by the Gulf oil spill crises, and matters that have suddenly become urgent, like dealing with undocumented immigrants.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 5, 2010
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The Water Cooler: Kottkamp; Oil; and Porn
Last week in one of my columns I referred to some of the scoundrels in the Florida G.O.P. leadership mentioning that they were “the kind of guys who make Jeff Kottkamp look honest.” Kottkamp, who is Florida’s do-nothing Lieutenant Governor best known for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses on state-owned aircraft to attend football games and concerts apparently took issue with the column.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Nov 20, 2009
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Florida DCA Secretary Pelham comes out swinging against SB 360
Supporters like Senator Bennett said it would streamline the permitting process- which even some environmentalists like Denise Layne agreed needed some tweaking - and that it would aid development and construction jobs, which the state hasn't had a lot of due to recession the past couple of years. But Layne and others said at the end was that the legislation went far awry from what was needed to address current growth management problems.
