Fired one up at the Martin Medical Center Delivery Unit in Stuart after his girlfriend was admitted. The nurses caught a whiff of spliff being smoked and called the cops.....more>>>
The state of Florida has joined a lawsuit aimed at blocking a massive cleanup plan for Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay. And, no, you can’t make this stuff up.
Last week, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a brief — paid for with your taxes — attacking the legality of the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint.
Why would the state of Florida try to obstruct the cleanup of public waters hundreds of miles away from our own?
Because Bondi and Gov. Rick Scott are complete tools.
They aren’t suing on behalf of the citizens of Florida; they’re suing on behalf of big agricultural and development interests that don’t want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcing clean-water laws anywhere......more
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Americans for Prosperity is intensifying the pressure on congressional Democrats by launching yet another round of TV commercials in Florida expanding its anti-Obamacare campaign into a new House district. The conservative advocacy group plans to announce that it will spend nearly $400,000 running ads hitting Reps. Alan Grayson and Joe Garcia for backing President Obama’s health-care law......more>
"The embargo has done nothing in more than 50 years to change the regime in Cuba. If we want to bring democracy to Cuba, we need to encourage American values and investment there, not block ourselves out and cede influence to China......more>
Requested permission from the state to use the University of Florida’s student union as an early voting location for upcoming municipal elections, Scott’s handpicked
Secretary of State Ken Detzner said "no."
Gov. Rick Scott has been doing everything in his power to make it harder for Floridians to vote ever since he got into office.
His latest effort to undermine our fundamental right to vote? here More at Pushing Rope
Sen. Nan Rich brought her dark-horse campaign for governor to the University of Tampa on Tuesday, trumpeting the endorsement of former lieutenant governor and congressman Buddy MacKay, a Democratic elder statesman.....more> Mr. MacKay, now retired in Marion County, was a state legislator, U.S. House member, lieutenant governor under the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, and briefly governor after Chiles’ 1998 death. He lost the 1998 governor’s race to Jeb Bush. He’s one of the last remaining members of the group of progressive Democrats, including Chiles, Reubin Askew and Bob Graham, who dominated Florida politics during the 1970s and 1980s.
Medical marijuana will be on the ballot in November, which is bad news for Gov. Rick Scott and other Republican leaders who oppose any relaxation of the state’s backward cannabis laws. public surveys continue to show landslide support for medical marijuana, and a majority favoring the decriminalization of small amounts for personal use. This is a thorny problem for conservative Republicans like Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who are up for re-election. They now have to sally forth and crusade against a popular cause, trying to stir fear and doubts among a constituency