Florida Inc. Corporate Owned And Operated

Four years ago, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment with a simple mandate: Legislators had to stop drawing absurd state congressional districts that virtually ensured the GOP would dominate in Tallahassee forever. Within weeks, GOP strategists went to work on an equally simple mission: how to get around the new law. here

GOP Voters how are you guys feeling? There is still time to order your 
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Pam Boni's Countdown Clock 23 DAYS: pambondi.info

Try Mr. Sheldon, he is one of us. He has served us well for a long time.  He has filed a lawsuit against Rick Scott's Culture Of Corruption. Has the Times endorsement and in a straw poll at USF HE WINS.

PLEASE CHECK HIM OUT HERE

VOTE 11.4.14

http://www.pambondi.info

Florida's Culture Of Corruption Spreading To Georgia

Rick Scott's For-Profit Youth Prisons

Corrupt for-profit companies have taken over Florida's criminal justice system — making millions by unjustly incarcerating Black and Brown youth in violently exploitative and inhumane conditions.

here

GOP Caught On Tape Pandering For Koch Money

Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst and Senator Mitch McConnell — both caught on tape pandering to a room full of right-wing billionaires like Charles and David Koch.

  

Ernst thanks the Koch brothers, crediting them with acting as the foundation of her 

political “trajectory.”

The day a measure passed to get big money out of politics was the “worst day” 

of his political life.

Crickets From Pam Bondi's Office

"This is what we hear when utility companies try to cut successful conservation programs and raise our rates.  Crickets from Pam Bondi's office. Pam Bondi repeatedly looks the other way when corporations and her big contributors try to rip off Floridians. If big companies want a favor from Bondi, she takes their money then cues the crickets." here

http://www.pambondi.info

Corruption In Hillsborough County

The federal government says Hillsborough County misused almost a million dollars in grants during its "Fight the Blight" campaign and it wants the money back. The inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a scathing audit of the county's use of federal Community Development Block Grant money for these blighted areas. The audit shows serious problems in the department resulted in 

developers being helped by almost 
$1 million

 instead of low-income areas. 

The audit says code enforcement cleanups like 
the "Fight the Blight" programs in 2012 and 2013 

were actually misusing the federal money in surrounding areas not qualifying as low-income neighborhoods. The county used the money on areas that were "industrial and commercial properties," 

"farm and vacant land" that were "planned for development" and 

"new construction in residential properties. 

because commissioners wanted to ensure 

developers didn't have to pay 
impact fees.

here

The Awesome Collier County Commissioners

Collier County Commissioners 
decided Tuesday, June 10th, 

to stay the course and uphold their decision to file a petition against the consent order between the 

 Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the 
Dan A. Hughes Company.

Dan A. Hughes is the applicant for exploratory drilling in Golden Gate Estates - 1,000 feet from residences and less than one mile from the
  Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge
They are also the company involved in using
illegal fracking techniques
at the Collier-Hogan well
within the
Big Cypress Swamp Watershed. here

There's only one Everglades   

Check out Florida Fracker Ray Rodrigues

America's Worst Politicians: Rick Scott

Rick Scott one of the worst politicians in America.Want a little old-school corruption? Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, who will soon be up for re-election, founded a health-care empire that was whacked with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history: $1.7 billion for stealing from the feds.here

Republican Upset He Didn't Get His Bribe

Florida GOP is winning the gerrymandering game

Republican governors like Rick Scott 

and ALEC-infested legislatures like Florida’s are ingenious at making it difficult and inconvenient to vote. 

And there are those who would make it even harder. here

Rick Scott to Attend Fundraiser at the Home of a Tax Cheat (Cancelled)

Scott has raised gobs of money to fuel his campaign—and apparently he isn't especially particular about where it comes from.On Saturday, he is scheduled to appear at a $10,000-a-person fundraiser at the Boca Raton home of James Batmasian, a powerful real estate developer and philanthropist in the state who also has done hard time for tax evasion......more

Scott cancelled the fundraiser 

Florida leads the country in for-profit incarceration

Corrupt for-profit companies have taken over Florida's criminal justice system — making millions by unjustly incarcerating Black and Brown youth in violently exploitative and inhumane conditions.

We can stop them. 

Tell the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice: stop contracting with abusive for-profit prisons. here

Florida Worst Gerrymandered State

When it comes to manipulating 
political boundaries 

to favor one party, Florida stands above all other states. 

In 2012, Republican candidates for the House of Representatives in Florida won 53% of the vote, 
but gained 63% of the seats......more>

In Rick Scott's Florida

Rick Scott was a stranger to Floridians. 

Then he spent $73 million and rode n angry voter wave to the Governor's Mansion. 

For Florida, this has been a hostile takeover by the former CEO of the nation's 
largest hospital chain. In three years 
Scott has done more harm than any modern governor, from voting rights to privacy rights, public schools to higher education, environmental protection to health care. 

One more legislative session and a $100 million re-election campaign will not undo the damage.

This is the tin man as governor, a chief executive who shows no heartfelt connection to the state, appreciation for its values 

or compassion for its residents. Scott, moved to Naples just seven years before running for governor, he treats Florida like another faceless corporate acquisition to be 
dismantled and repackaged. 

In Scott's Florida, it is harder for citizens to vote and for the jobless to collect unemployment. It is easier for renters to be evicted and for borrowers to be charged high interest rates on short-term loans. It is harder for patients to win claims against doctors who hurt them and for consumers to get fair treatment from car dealers who deceive them. It is easier for businesses to avoid paying taxes, building roads and repairing environmental damage

here

Loser of the week: Charles Van Zant

A product of Florida schools

 Van Zant now looks like a poster child 

for the need to improve 

the state's educational standards.

here

John Thrasher the winner of the week? because despite the fact that he is not qualified to serve as President of FSU, a Republican backroom deal has been made and he will be given the job and a very large tax-payer paid salary. .....Pinellas Democratic Party

Tallahassee students speak out against John Thrasher

They should have also listed FSU as loser of the week.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Group plotted takeover of Orlando expressway authority

A handful of politicians, lobbyists and government officials plotted to take over 

Orlando's Expressway Authority and use the agency's $300 million budget to their advantage. Among those allegedly involved were agency board member 

Scott Batterson, an appointee of 
Rick Scott 

and state Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad, 

also a Scott appointee.

here

Florida's Shadow' Redistricting Process

Republican Party of Florida

You the fella

Terraferma 

Hefley

 Posada 

Drop the baby into the map

League of Women Voters, are challenging the state’s congressional map and accusing legislators of violating the 2010 constitutional amendment requiring them to draw districts that do not protect incumbents or members of a party." more

Tallahassee students speak out against John Thrasher

At a meeting of the Florida State University Presidential Search Advisory Committee, 
Tallahassee Dream Defenders 
spoke out against the nomination of 
Senator John Thrasher 
as the new Florida State University (FSU) president.......more>

Thrasher is being given special treatment and students say it is because he is rich and politically powerful. They also say Thrasher is racist and anti-worker.

Rick Scott: Florida's Culture Of Corruption