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TweetLet me disclose first that I was Chairman of the Florida ChamberFoundation when the concept of a public-private partnership called Enterprise Florida (“EF”) first surfaced.  I also was the Executive VicePresident of the Florida Chamber, after serving on the senior executive staff of former Governor Lawton Chiles, when Chiles proposed creating EF.  My reaction to Governor Scott’s proposal to [...]

TweetMIAMI (AP) — Freshman U.S. Rep. David Rivera, who is facing a state criminal investigation of his finances, paid himself more than $60,000 in unexplained campaign reimbursements over the eight years he served in the state legislature, an Associated Press examination of his records shows. Serving as his own campaign treasurer, the Miami Republican didn’t report [...]

TweetScribbles in my notebook after watching Gov. Rick Scott’s interview on FOX News today. 1.) In former Gov. Charlie Crist’s first office, he took aim at his predecessor’s record for budget vetoes. Gov. Rick Scott has set his sights on the entire country. In a FOX News interview today, Scott claimed he would have “the most fiscally [...]

Tweet Mark Fiore/ 01/28/2011 Florida Latin Connection/ Arnoldo Varona, Editor * ObamaCare……. Uhhhhh…!!!

TweetWASHINGTON — Florida Senator Marco Rubio named a veteran conservative Washington hand, Cesar Conda, on Friday to be his chief of staff. Conda was former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief domestic policy advisor and helped devise the massive tax cuts that were enacted during George W. Bush’s presidency. The controversial tax cuts, including breaks for the rich, were [...]

TweetFreshman lawmaker James Grant, a 20-something Republican from Tampa, has filed his first two bills. The topics? Guns and sex. One bill would create a two-day sales tax holiday in October for gun purchases. “That one’s kind of up in the air,” Grant said. “There are some that think if that one passes that would create a registry [...]

TweetGov. Rick Scott Thursday sent a hand-delivered letter to Enterprise Florida president John A. Adams Jr. telling him  he is “determined to move in a different direction” and didn’t need Adams’s help to do so. On Friday, the Orlando-based public-private partnership  — formed in the 1990s to help recruit businesses to come to Florida — said it will [...]

TweetIT MAKES MORE SENSE TO BUY A HOME IN MIAMI RATHER THAN TO RENT, ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT FROM TRULIA, WHICH RANKS MIAMI AS THE NATION’S TOP BUYER’S MARKET. Is there any upside to having a sky-high foreclosure rate, double-digit unemployment and a tight credit market? According to a respected real estate firm, these [...]

TweetDEERFIELD BEACH — About 400 people turned out for new U.S. Rep. Allen West’s first town hall meeting Thursday night and gave the Republican lawmaker a standing ovation. West presented an array of graphics illustrating the nation’s fiscal problems and said “We cannot continue to let big three entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicare and [...]