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Charlie Crist says Republicans turned Florida into ‘late-night TV joke’
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who served as a Republican, blasted the GOP on Wednesday over the state’s new voting laws. “Florida, which four years earlier was a model for efficiency, became once again a late-night TV joke,” Christ said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “Voters who wanted to…
More about carrying concealed weapons at the Republican National Convention
Tampa Community Radio WMNF 88.5 had me on this morning to talk about my reported piece on the ease with which one could bring a gun to the Republican National Convention because of Governor Rick Scott’s (R-FL) refusal to provide the city a waiver to a state law limiting municipal…
Florida suspends Gov. Scott’s voter purge efforts
Florida’s election supervisors announced their decision Friday evening to stop the controversial effort of Governor Rick Scott’s (R) administration removing names off the state’s voter rolls, according to The Palm Beach Post. Spurred by the Department of Justice delivered a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner that the…
‘Daily Show’ asks Gov. Rick Scott to take drug test
On Thursday night’s The Daily Show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi traveled to Orlando, Florida to meet Louis Lebron, a Navy veteran on public assistance who refuses to submit to a state-ordered drug test. Florida’s state legislature, led by Governor Rick Scott, mandated that all recipients of welfare should be tested for…
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