And it is costing the party their logic, reason and good business sense.
When you turn down health care for millions of citizens, billions of dollars and job creation out of spite, you are not representing the best interests of your constituents.
In Florida,the healthcare company Columbia/HCA, was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud while Rick Scott, prior to being governor, was CEO. Now Scott doesn't want to let Florida's citizens receive the benefits from the Medicaid expansion. Florida will lose $5 billion.
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
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
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.
Central Florida
ranks as the most dangerous metropolitan region for walkers over the ten year
period of 2003 – 2012 with the state of Florida taking first place in the
nation.
on Friday, flagging $120 million in spending the group says was included by lawmakers without the proper public vetting, including large projects in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Miami-Dade and Pasco Hillsborough County had 12 projects flagged.
Is City Council candidate Jackie Toledo
using a campaign photo that
superimposes her own image on Mayor Bob Buckhorn's
official city portrait?
It looks that way, say five photography experts who examined both photos. Mayor Bob is not happy. Toledo's photo could mislead voters into thinking she has an endorsement he hasn't given. "I knew I would be a lame duck someday, but I didn't think people would be Photoshopping me out of my own picture," he said.here Are the pics of her with Iorio and Montelione also fake?