Showing posts with label Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture. Show all posts

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Richard Corcoran Florida's Biggest Loser

He had to pay fellow blogger (And what ever else it is he does) Peter Schorsch $20,000 
to name him biggest winner. 

"When allocations come down, it has to be recognized - again - the masterful play by @RichardCorcoran," Peter Schorsch, gushed on Twitter  the same day Corcoran made the payment.
After the session finally ended, Schorsch crowned Corcoran the biggest winner: 
"He’s the master of the House. No, make that the Capitol....Light up another Montecristo: This ride is just gettin’ started."
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Mr. Corcoran do the right thing and we will call
 you a winner for free.

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Carlos G. Muniz

As a top aide to Florida's attorney general Pam Bondi, Carlos G. Muniz helped defend the office's decision to sit out legal action against Trump University. Now Trump is naming him to be the top lawyer in the U.S. Education Department. here

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Florida Lobbyists Want A Seat At The Table

David Mica, the chairman of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists, sent a letter Monday to House Speaker Designate Richard Corcoran asking weigh in on the House rules before they are released. here

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Only $25,000 Buys Pam Bondi

While it hasn’t been proved that Mr. Trump or Ms. Bondi violated bribery law, there’s little doubt that they abused the public trust in 2013, when Ms. Bondi received a $25,000 campaign contribution from Mr. Trump four days after her office announced that Florida was “reviewing the allegations” in a lawsuit filed in New York against his Trump University. here

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Pat Kemp's Poll Was Correct

Before the election a poll showing Pat Kemp winning by a sizable margin mysteriously disappeared from a local website. 
The poll was right on!
 Did this happened for the 
benefit of another candidate? 
The story and reason given for the  disappearance here

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: $31,213,000 For The Last Quarter Of 2015

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture 
Companies seeking to influence the Florida Legislature paid a median of $31,213,000 for the last quarter of 2015, according to data released
by the state.here

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Tallahassee Open For Business

As Florida legislators begin their annual session in an election year, at least 
$28.5 million 
has been funneled into legislative political committees in the last six months, fueling progress on priority legislation for many industries, and blocking other ideas from advancing, according to a 
Herald/Times analysis. here 

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture

Three days after Gov. Rick Scott signed a new gambling agreement earlier this month, Scott’s Let’s Get To Work political committee reported receiving a $20,000 check from Resorts World Miami,  a company that is a division of a Malaysian casino conglomerate that could benefit from the deal. here 

Friday, October 30, 2015

Pam Bondi: Most Corrupt Florida Attorney General Ever!

Here we go again, 
Attorney General Pam Bondi said her continuing challenges to federal environmental regulations are not political and instead are aimed at protecting Floridians. So she is  joining 23 other states in challenging an Obama administration rule on power plant emissions designed to address climate change. Remember last year she challenged a Chesapeake Bay water cleanup plan that most of the states around the bay had agreed to but industry and agriculture groups opposed. She also is challenging federal wetlands rules that agricultural groups and stormwater utilities are opposing. here
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"The role of the Florida attorney general is to protect the citizens of Florida by going to court and providing legal services to government agencies. Instead Bondi is acting as the government arm of polluting industries that want to degrade the Florida environment at the expense of ordinary citizens." David Guest of the Earthjustice law firm office in Tallahassee.
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Click here to see what real Corruption looks like!

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture: Carlos Curbelo

is among about two dozen GOP congressional representatives who have promised to supply detailed information about their "legislative agenda" and "political justifications" to national Republican donors in exchange for financial support. here

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Florida INC. Booming In Tallahassee

The Southern Strategy Group continues to post gaudy lobbying figures in Tallahassee: The firm collected an estimated $3.1 million in consulting fees last quarter, SSG took in some $2.3 million from 241 legislative lobbying clients and reported $800,000 in fees from 242 executive branch contracts. here

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

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 
free tube of lube. 
We know you guys like to take it deep. Just tell us where to send it.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Pam Bondi Convalescence Home In Tampa

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Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida, after taking a free ride on a chartered jet last year to a resort island far from her home state, made an unusual offer to one of the corporate lawyers from Washington who helped foot the bill: an invitation to stay at her Tampa home while recuperating from surgery.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Unethical Pam Bondi should be investigated, not relected

"It troubles me to say this, but quite frankly she’s the most unethical Attorney General in my lifetime," George Sheldon declared, reading from prepared notes in a third-floor office inside the Hillsborough County Teachers Association building in West Tampa. here


Endorsed by the Tampa Tribune

Monday, September 22, 2014

The Florida 2 State Solution

One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S. 

Bring on the 51st state or the country 

 of South Florida.

We draw a line across, just below Ocala. (Sorry Gainesville). They get, Off-Shore Drilling, Stinky Paper Mills and Tallahassee. We get the Everglades, The Keys, Ybor City, South Beach and Disney World.

The Stogie: 2073

See what it might look like 60 years from now.    

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Big Utilities Call The Shots In Rick Scott's Florida

In the first quarter of 2001, 
Florida ranked No. 4 
among the states for its use of renewables, including solar power, to generate electricity. 
By the first quarter of 2014, 
the state had plummeted to No. 16 
in its use of renewables.
 How did this happen? The most obvious reason is that big power companies here don't want messy renewables messing up their monopoly gigs. Florida's Public Service Commission, which is supposed to oversee electric utilities in the state, is perceived — on a good day — as incompetent and a puppet of big power companies and state legislators that control PSC nominations and enjoy utility largesse. Robert Trigaux 

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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. 
SteveSoutherland.info

Saturday, August 2, 2014

How We Git-R-Done In Rick Scott's Florida

 A month after Gov. Rick Scott took a secret hunting trip to the King Ranch in Texas last year, he faced a big decision. A seat had come open on the board that oversees Florida's efforts on the multibillion-dollar project to repair damage to the Everglades caused by agriculture. To fill that position, Scott picked a corporate executive named 
Mitchel A. "Mitch" Hutchcraft.
 Hutchcraft's major qualification for a seat on the board of South Florida Water Management District: He is the vice president in charge of the King Ranch's Florida agricultural acreage. here
This is how things work in Rick Scott's Florida
You pay, you play! On 11.4.14 do your thing, VOTE.