National small-government advocacy organization Americans For Prosperity is promoting nine “Tax Day” rallies in Florida including one in downtown Orlando next Sunday. The Orlando rally, at 2 p.m. in Lake Eola Park Amphitheater, is being sponsored by th... »
TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Mike Haridopolos and his successor Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said they are open to looking at town halls or potential hearings on the Trayvon Martin case after the November elections when lawmakers will begin committee... »
UPDATES w/ Florida Democratic Party response By Aaron Deslatte, Tallahassee Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate voted 31-6 Thursday to pass its response to a high-court rebuke of its once-a-decade chore of redistricting, despite objections th... »
TALLAHASSEE — The debate over re-drawing the Florida Senate’s political lines has come down to numbers, but not just racial breakdowns or election returns. The Senate Reapportionment Committee began its second day of debate Wednesday where it left off ... »
TALLAHASSEE — An attempt to adopt newly fashioned Senate district lines in response to a court order bogged down Tuesday as lawmakers clamored for political information on how the new lines would look and whether they provided enough protection for min... »
TALLAHASSEE — Interest groups anxious to make decisions about where to play in legislative elections have been expecting multiple head-to-head match-ups when the Senate unveiled new districts Saturday. They’re bound to be disappointed. The first Senate... »
TALLAHASSEE — Three of the groups that backed the Fair Districts reforms and are challenging congressional redistricting plans in court now want the Senate’s point-man to re-think his crash-course for re-drawing Senate districts. Lawmakers are facing a... »
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate has set a noon Saturday deadline for filing a proposed re-drawing of the districts invalidated by the Florida Supreme Court last week. Noon Saturday happens to be smack in the middle of St. Patrick’s Day, with a parade ... »
The Florida Senate convened at 1:01 p.m. today to open a special session on redistricting — and promptly adjourned at 1:13, after observing procedural niceties and listening to Senate Reapportionment Chairman Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, tell them that his ... »
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate voted 38-1 Thursday to pass a claims bill paying former Brevard resident William Dillon $1.35 million for the 27 years he was wrongly imprisoned for murder, ending his three-year struggle to get compensation. Senate Pre... »
TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Designate Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, who led the Senate’s redistricting process said Monday that a House proposal to shield legislators and their staffs from ever being required to testify or produce public records when laws... »
TALLAHASSEE – Complaining about the media and ban on gifts from lobbyists, a Senate panel shot down a bill that would have prohibited future lawmakers from also holding jobs or contracts with state colleges and universities. The legislation, SB 1560, m... »
TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Designate Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said “no offense was meant” in his remarks last night that several Democratic lawmakers have said were racially insensitive. “None of the three legislators had called me or spoken to me i... »
TALLAHASSEE — State Rep. Mia Jones, D-Jacksonville, just sent out a statement chastising Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, for remarks he made following the redistricting vote Thursday as “highly charged and disturbing.” Gaetz, Thursday evening, was asked f... »
TALLAHASSEE — Lawmakers return to a full slate of committee hearings and floor action today on environmental bills, health-care and higher education budget proposals, and abortion bills. But the House (11 a.m.) and the Senate (9 a.m.) go into session b... »
