x

x

FLORIDA POLITICS
Since 2002, daily Florida political news and commentary

 

UPDATE: Every morning we review and individually digest Florida political news articles, editorials and punditry. Our sister site, FLA Politics was selected by Campaigns & Elections as one of only ten state blogs in the nation
"every political insider should be reading right now."

E-Mail Florida Politics

This is our Main Page
Our Sister Site
On FaceBook
Follow us on Twitter
Our Google+ Page
Contact [E-Mail Florida Politics]
Site Feed
...and other resources

 

Welcome To Florida Politics

Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

For each story, column, article or editorial we deem significant, we post at least the headline and link to the piece; the linked headline always appears in quotes. We quote the headline for two reasons: first, to allow researchers looking for the cited piece to find it (if the link has expired) by searching for the original title/headline via a commercial research service. Second, quotation of the original headline permits readers to appreciate the spin from the original piece, as opposed to our spin.

Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

Older posts [back to 2002]

Previous Articles by Derek Newton: Ten Things Fox on Line 1 Stem Cells are Intelligent Design Katrina Spin No Can't Win Perhaps the Most Important Race Senate Outlook The Nelson Thing Deep, Dark Secret Smart Boy Bringing Guns to a Knife Fight Playing to our Strength  

The Blog for Monday, October 07, 2013

Scott's mea culpa on the voter purge

    Rick Scott attempts to preempt what is sure to be a significant issue in his re-election effort. The Miami Herald reports that "In a rare display of contrition coming to a Florida city near you, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is acknowledging what civil rights groups and local elections officials had already been saying: Last year’s attempted purge of noncitizens from voter rolls was fundamentally flawed."
    "'I accept responsibility for the effort,” Scott’s secretary of state, Ken Detzner, told the Herald/Times. “It could have been better. It should have been better.'"
    Detzner, who serves as Scott’s top elections official, is repeating the mea culpa during a five-day road tour that concludes this week in Orlando, Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale. The apology is part of a sales pitch to the public and supervisors of elections that a second attempt to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, “Project Integrity”, will be better.
    "Gov. Rick Scott delivers mea culpa on voter purge". See also "" and "".


    Derby thinks . . .

    Kevin Derby thinks "2016 Hopefuls Should Keep Kansas-Nebraska Act in Mind as Shutdown Continues".


    The Usual "Blasting", "Bashing and Blaming"

    "With little more than a year left before Gov. Rick Scott faces voters to ask for re-election, Republicans say they're confident he can win what polls show to be an uphill battle -- as long as he gets his message out." "GOP Looks to Get Out Rick Scott's Message".

    Oh yeah, here's the FlaGOP usual nuanced "message": "Fla. Republicans blast Democrats, ex-Gov. Crist" and, for good measure, "Gov. Scott’s mantra: bash and blame Obama".


    Obamacare computer glitches a political gaffe

    Marc Caputo: "Obamacare has a new antagonist: The Obamacare sign-up website." "Obamacare computer glitches resemble political gaffe".


    "Remember the state shutdown?"

    Bill Cotterell: "The federal government shutdown evokes memories of a bitter bit of budget brinksmanship in Florida’s Capitol."

    State employees did themselves proud in the summer of 1992, when state government shut down and nobody noticed. In a way, the state slept through it, except for Gov. Lawton Chiles and legislative leaders, who worked through June 30 and into the first hours of the new fiscal year, when the state’s checkbook legally went “Poof” like Cinderella’s pumpkin coach.
    "Remember the state shutdown? Well, maybe not".


    "Racial violence in Florida"

    "Racial violence in Florida".


    Still waitin'

    Nancy Smith: "Coy Koontz Jr. and his wife Linda, retired now and living quietly in the North Carolina mountains, are still not finished with perhaps the most monumental property-rights case ever filed in Florida -- even though they won in the U.S. Supreme Court." "Heroes of Private-Property Rights Still Mopping Up in Landmark Florida Case".


    Number 10 on the lobbyists list

    "With a heavy presence in both Tallahassee and South Florida, and a newly opened office in Tampa, Floridian Partners LLC ranks No. 10 on Sunshine State News’ top lobbyists list in the Sunshine State." "Floridian Partners Helping Turn Legislative Wheels in Tallahassee".


9:29 AM

<< Home