Showing posts with label jose oliva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jose oliva. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2019

Florida GOP Consolidation of Power

Miami state Rep. Jose Oliva is a hardcore ideologue who believes in Koch-Brothers-style, pro-business, libertarian-esque Republicanism. 

He supports the state's right to "preempt" towns from making their own laws as a way to stop local governments from, in his mind, improperly interfering with business, the economy, or people's lives.

Under his leadership, the Florida GOP in 2019 made good: It pitched a slew of preemption laws to hamper local towns' rights to regulate everything from plastic straws all the way to job responsibilities, work hours, and employee benefits. HERE

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Jose Oliva

On Aug. 18 he received a $100,000 check from U.S. Sugar.
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What does U.S. Sugar expect in return for this investment? He is expected to be the next speaker if the GOP retains the majority in the Florida House.
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.Sugar has aggressively fought the push to force agricultural interests to relinquish some of their land to build a water-storage reservoir in the Everglades Agricultural Area. It relied on the House and the governor to weaken the proposal last session, and succeeded.
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The mega-check was not all that unusual.
 $100,000 check to Rick Scott
 $285,000 check to Adam Putnam. here