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Nan Rich

Memo To Senator Nan Rich: Put On Your Big Girl Panties

May 19, 2013

by Lone Shark State Senator Nan Rich is supposedly ‘encouraging’ Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford to “man up” and “do the right thing”– abandon his support of the Florida Health Choices Plus program and support her preferred alternative–the federal expansion of the Medicaid program in the state of Florida. As many of our readers are … Read more

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Infants Born Alive Legislation Clears Senate Committee

April 9, 2013

BY: JAVIER MANJARRES The Infants Born Alive Act (SB 1636) mandates that “an infant who is born alive during or immediately after an attempted abortion the same rights as infants born naturally,” and it has just cleared the Florida Senate’s Health Policy Committee unanimously. Gov. Rick Scott released the following statement regarding the Infants Born Alive … Read more

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FAA Sequester Cuts Hit North Perry, Spare Opa-Locka Control Towers

March 22, 2013

by Lone Shark The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally announced that it will begin a four-week phased closure of 149 control towers beginning April 7th. The FAA had initially announced that it would be cutting 189 federal control towers earlier this month. Among the forty other towers that have been spared is the Opa Locka … Read more

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Rep.Tom Price Breaks Down Prospects for Budget Agreement

March 13, 2013

by JAVIER MANJARES Congressman Tom Price is the vice-chair of the congressional Budget Committee, and he’s earned his reputation on Capitol Hill as a committed fiscal and deficit hawk.  Price is also rumored to be a possible candidate to replace retiring U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss from Georgia. We sat down with Price on Tuesday and … Read more

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Wasserman Schultz- GOP “Rooting” for Bad Economy

March 11, 2013

by LONE SHARK There she goes again. It must be nice to live in a world where you can make the most inane statements that bear no relation to reality whatsoever and never be held to account- particularly when you happen to simultaneously represent the 23rd congressional district in Florida as well as the Democratic … Read more

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Adam Putnam Breaks with Governor Scott on Medicaid Expansion

February 22, 2013

by Lone Shark Does the following statement made by sitting Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam portend to a primary challenge of sitting Republican Governor Rick Scott?  Check out what Putnam posted on his Facebook wall yesterday and discuss among yourselves-

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Bibi and Marco Raise Their….Water Bottles?

February 20, 2013

By Lone Shark Looks like our good Senator Marco Rubio is getting every last drop of  publicity out of “Watergate” as he “toasted” Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem. Two “career ending” water stunts in less than two weeks…can Rubio ever recover? Related: Rubio’s Comedic Response to SOTU Response Rubio’s H2O Could Have … Read more

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Today’s Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column

February 19, 2013

by Lone Shark Is it worse that the mainstream media’s relationship with the Obama Administration is incestuous (former chief strategist David Axelrod has now been hired as a political analyst at NBC) or that of a battered wife (case in point- the White House Press Corps complaining about “access” to the President on the golf … Read more

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It’s a Miracle- Marco Rubio Water Bottle Giveaway Night

February 18, 2013

You could say that Senator Marco Rubio has been walking on water of late, and now the Fort Myers Miracle are doing their part to immortalize Rubio’s refreshing delivery of his response to the president’s State of the Union address.