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At a recent visit to a dam surrounding Lake Okeechobee, Senator Rick Scott touted the Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act’s $1 billion in funding allocated for Everglades restoration, claiming that he and Marco Rubio secured one of the largest single investments on record for the Everglades. There’s just one problem: both Rubio and Scott voted against the

An excerpt from Florida Playbook by Gary Fineout, Feb 3, 2022. It’s become a cliché, but former House Speaker John Thrasher summed it succinctly when Republicans first took control of the Florida Legislature: It’s all about the base. Addendum — Let’s add another cliché into the mix as well: Elections have consequences. Context — The GOP has

After spending the past week attacking efforts to protect voting rights and restore the bipartisan Voting Rights Act while voting to make it more difficult for Floridians to cast their ballots, Marco Rubio is getting slammed for opposing voting rights legislation. As the Palm Beach Post editorial board wrote recently, Rubio’s vote “insulted the memory of the

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor and Columnist, Jan 23, 2022. “What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for.” When President Biden posed that question at his news conference last Wednesday, he no doubt meant it rhetorically. But there is, in fact, an answer. Today’s Republicans are for whatever

Marco Rubio has made his position on protecting and expanding the right to vote in America clear: he thinks it’s ridiculous. In recent interviews and statements, Rubio has criticized efforts to protect voting rights, attacked measures that would make it easier to vote, and lied about efforts in states – including in Florida – to erect barriers

From failing to show up for his job to voting against legislation to speed up COVID vaccinations and grow the economy, Marco Rubio spent the year being too cowardly to step up and do what’s right for Florida. Newspapers across the state took notice, excoriating Rubio for his spinelessness and self-serving attempts to score political

As Congress makes progress on popular legislation to invest in programs that will lower costs for working families across Florida, Marco Rubio has made one thing clear: he will do whatever he can to stop it. Rubio has once put his own partisan political agenda ahead of the needs of Floridians, and is openly opposing proposals to lower

By Zac Anderson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Dec 3, 2021. Notorious Trump lawyer Sidney Powell meets with Sen. Joe Gruters. The Sarasota region’s connections to those fighting the 2020 election results keep growing, the latest example being a visit from former President Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. Sarasota state Sen. Joe Gruters met with Powell and former

Following the reports of Senator Rick Scott celebrating inflation as a “gold mine” for Republicans’ efforts to regain power in Washington, Florida Democratic Party Chairman Manny Diaz released the following statement: “Instead of voting to invest millions of dollars in Florida’s crumbling infrastructure and combating inflation, Senator Rick Scott is rooting against the economic recovery and continues

Last week, Marco Rubio voted to support Senator Rand Paul’s radical Five Penny Plan, which would gut our federal budget, mandating “enormous cuts to practically every aspect of federal operations,” and putting defense, education, FEMA, and Medicare in jeopardy. “Instead of voting for a budget plan that will lower health care costs and ensure no

FL state senator Joe Gruters further demonstrated his leadership incompetence by speaking at an Anti-Vaxxers meeting yesterday.