Disney Donates Big To Florida GOP

The Walt Disney Co. is betting big on Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. Since 2015, Disney has given $400,648 to Florida Grown, a committee supporting Putnam, but has also donated $70,000 to a committee run by state Sen. Jack Latvala and $35,000 to a new committee set up by House Speaker Richard Corcoran. U.S. Sugar Corp. and Duke Energy have given to Putnam, Corcoran and Latvala’s committees, 
as well. 

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Disney’s donation to Corcoran could be considered surprising since the speaker led a blistering battle against the state paying their advertising bill. 

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Disney and other companies haven’t given anything to the three major Democratic candidates already in the race. 

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Adam Putnam Welcomes Trump's Decision To Roll Back The Clean Water Rule

“The federal government overstepped its authority under the Obama Administration with its overreaching and nonsensical WOTUS rule. I applaud EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s move to undo these overly burdensome regulations that cost American workers precious dollars to meet unnecessary and unscientific standards.” Adam Putnam

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This man wants to be our next governor. 

Adam Putnam's Sugar Daddies

With Big Sugar’s backing, Putnam not so sweet on clean-water solution. here

Florida INC. Investors Pile Up

Florida GOP Adam Putnam from Polk County, raised more than $200,000 in June.  That helped Putnam surpass $5 million raised. Putnam is widely considered a top challenger for the Florida INC. CEO post when Rick Scott’s term ends in 2018.

 Here are the top 10  Investors

$400,000 - The Voice of Florida Business

$325,000 - AIF PAC

$325,000 - Florida Jobs PAC

$256,275 - Florida Power & Light

$150,746 - Florida Phosphate 

$125,000 - Disney Worldwide Services Inc

$125,000 - FCCI Services Inc

$110,000 - Publix

$110,000 - US Sugar Corporation

$110,000 - Duke Energy

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Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Big Sugar and Corporate Welfare

For decades, the sugar subsidy has been lambasted as the worst form of corporate welfare. Big Sugar's perks amount to legalized corruption of the campaign finance system. In Florida, Big Sugar money influence is so great that the industry acts in the state capitol 

as a shadow government. 

What Big Sugar wants, it gets. 

These days, a solid GOP majority in the state legislature, 

Gov. Rick Scott, and Adam Putnam 

-- the agriculture secretary aiming to replace Marco Rubio in the US Senate -- are so deep in Big Sugar's pocket, you can't even see them. Not that Floridians are looking. here

Florida Agriculture Secretary Adam Putnam

 is aiming to wrest control of Florida water quality from the (absurdly, horribly) weak Florida Department of Environmental Protection, in which case taxpayers will never, ever have a "fair and balanced" accounting of the costs of pollution and why, exactly, the polluters aren't being held accountable to clean up their pollution. This development is unfolding right now in Tallahassee. It is being portrayed as a conflict between the ambitious Putnam and Gov. Rick Scott. In reality, these two are working 
hand-in-glove. here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Steve Southerland

This is how we git r done in Rick Scott's Florida

Standing alongside 

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, 

touted his proposed "Regulatory Overreach Protection Act, federal legislation to block federal oversight of waterways and wetlands in favor of state and local government agencies.  Although he describes its support as bipartisan, all but five of its 120 co-sponsors are Republicans,

  including U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores 

No Florida Democrat is a sponsor. The bill would let the states decide which wetlands deserve protection, potentially saving farmers and developers time and money dealing with the federal government. here

Southerland's bill enjoys wide support from the Florida sugar industry which has faced increasing regulation over agricultural pollution, especially in the Everglades .

Did you know Southerland and Putnam recently hung out at King Ranch in Texas,
 Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture

Putnam, Southerland and representatives from business groups made some misleading assertions about the federal oversight of wetlands.
Putnam and Southerland each said bureaucrats "a thousand miles away" call the shots on wetlands. Actually, decisions about Florida wetlands permits are made in the Corps of Engineers' offices in Jacksonville, Tampa and other locations around the state. 

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Florida Call For An Investigation Into The King Ranch Scandal

Gov. Scott and his legislative allies have allowed sugar industry polluters to foul the Everglades and stick taxpayers with the tab to clean up their mess.
 Is it a mere coincidence they've done this while accepting expensive hunting trips to the exclusive King Ranch in Texas on Big Sugar’s dime? It’s time for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to quit her partisan antics and get to the bottom of the King Ranch political scandal that has engulfed Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Party. here

http://www.pambondi.info/

Florida Republican's Sugar Daddy

 On a Friday in February 2013, Gov. Rick Scott stepped aboard a Texas-bound plane to take part in a secret ritual for Florida’s GOP. Scott was departing for historic King Ranch, one of North America’s premier hunting grounds. The trips, records indicate, were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida’s sugar industry, right down to the hunting licenses. here

Scott won’t answer questions about his trip. After weeks of requests from the Times/Herald. The urge to keep details about the trips confidential is so strong among Florida’s elected officials that Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s press secretary shut a door in the face of a reporter asking about King Ranch. “You’ll have to talk to the Republican Party of Florida, since it was their fundraiser,” Putnam said as the door closed.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/25/4255420/why-wont-florida-gop-leaders-talk.html#storylink=cpy

Florida's Right Wing Infestation

Stogie's Pest Control 

GOVERNOR

Nan Rich

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 William Rankin

 STATE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER

Thad Hamilton

ATTORNEY GENERAL

 George Sheldon

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The Citrus Taliban Gather In Tallahassee

A group of the state’s most influential political leaders will gather in Tallahassee tomorrow for the annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast of the 

Florida Faith & Freedom Coalition.

 Speakers on the agenda include

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam

House Speaker Will Weatherford

State Sen. Anitere Flores

Rep. Dennis Baxley

Florida Right to Life President Carrie Eisnaugle;

and Florida Faith & Freedom Coalition Chair Jim Kallinger......more>

What A Nice Time To Be A Liberal

Florida Republicans 

Rick Scott,  Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder, Pam Bondi, Jeff Atwater,  Adam Putnam,  

Steve Southerland, Ander Crenshaw, Ron DeSantis,  John Mica, Bill Posey,

Jorge Bonilla, Daniel Webster, Rich Nugent, Gus Bilirakis, Dennis Ross, Vern Buchanan, 

Tom Rooney, Mario Diaz-Balart,  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

               Remember these folks in 2014.                     

The Citrus Taliban: Christian Coalition 2.0

Plan to Register Evangelical Christian And faithful Catholic Voters
Yesterday morning, Historic City News was notified that the Florida Faith and Freedom Coalition hosted a Legislative Prayer Breakfast in Tallahassee; Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam, and Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed were in attendance.
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Let The Carnage Begin

Scott Asks EPA To Delay Florida Water Pollution Rules
Governor-elect Rick Scott, Agriculture Commissioner-elect Adam Putnam, Attorney General-elect Pam Bondi and five incoming congressmen sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her to postpone action.
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If this is an issue that concerns you, send an email to Lisa Jackson:
'jackson.lisap@epa.gov'
Thanks...SOG