Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.12.21
Good Wednesday morning.
According to a new poll, Florida voters overwhelmingly support the new Gaming Compact between the state and Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Gov.
Ron DeSantis and Seminole Tribe of Florida Chairman
Marcellus Osceola Jr. recently signed the new Gaming Compact, which would give the Tribe exclusive control of sports betting in Florida and allow pari-mutuels to offer sports betting under the tribeâs supervision.
In exchange, the state would receive a minimum of $2.5 billion in revenue in the first five years of the 30-year deal, with yearly amounts adjusted afterward.
Last Call for 5.11.21 â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics
Last Call â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics.
First Shot
Senate President
Wilton Simpson hasnât launched a campaign for Agriculture Commissioner, but if he does, he has the most coveted endorsement a Florida Republican could want.
Former President
Nikki Fried, a Democrat widely expected to run for Governor.
âWilton Simpson has done an outstanding job as President of the Florida State Senate, and I hope he runs for Florida Agriculture Commissioner in 2022 â he will have my Complete and Total Endorsement! Wilton has been a great supporter and worked hard to get many good Conservatives elected in Florida,â Trump wrote. âHe helped us grow our Republican majority in the Florida State Senate and gave us a historic win in Florida in the 2020 Presidential Election. Wilton will never let the great people of Florida down!â
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.11.21
Good Tuesday morning.
Jared Rosenstein has joined its team of government affairs consultants.
Rosenstein comes to the firm from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, where he served as legislative affairs director.
âJared fits our firm culture of hard work, a deep knowledge of issues, and attention to detail very well. He will undoubtedly provide top-notch government affairs services at the state level and before local governments in South Florida,â founding partner
Ron LaFace, Jr. added.
Before FDEM, Rosenstein served as a legislative assistant to then-Rep.
Jared Moskowitz during his time in the House. He also served as a district aide to former Rep.
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.10.21
Good Monday morning.
Cody McCloud, press secretary to Gov.
Ron DeSantis, is exiting the comms shop to become Legislative Affairs Director at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
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State Rep.
Ben Diamond is entering the race for Florida’s 13th Congressional District â a seat being vacated by incumbent
Charlie Crist, who
jumped into the 2022 gubernatorial contest Tuesday.
The St. Petersburg Democrat is set to make the announcement today at USF St. Pete, where he will be joined by several local politicos, including Pinellas County Commissioners
Pat Gerard and
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.7.21
Who's up, down, in and out â your morning tipsheet on Florida politics.
No Casinos is launching a new statewide ad campaign to warn Floridians about the new Seminole Compact, which opens sports betting that they say illegally expands gambling in violation of the Florida Constitution.
The Orlando-based anti-gambling group argues the deal between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, signed by DeSantis late last month and could be finalized during a Special Legislative Session starting May 17, lets âpoliticians and gambling lobbyists, instead of voters, authorize a massive expansion of gamblingâ in the Sunshine State.
Last Call for 5.6.21 â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics
Last Call â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics.
First Shot
Gov.
Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday at a closed-door event at the Hilton at Palm Beach International Airport.
The measure, which goes into effect immediately, mainly changes rules surrounding mail ballots. It limits when voters can slip their mail ballots into drop boxes to voting hours. It also requires election officials to guard or monitor drop boxes during the hours they are available to voters.
Additionally, the new law aims to curb so-called âballot harvestingâ by blocking anyone from dropping off ballots from more than two people who are not in their immediate family.
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.6.21
Let’s start the morning with some great news about two really good people:
Aly is a vice president of Accounts with On3PR, while
Omar is deputy chief of staff to Speaker
Chris Sprowls.
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@NickConfessore: The fact that this private corporate administrative decision is being covered as something akin to a Supreme Court ruling â rightly so, I think â is the best illustration I can imagine of the sheer power Facebook has achieved over the public square
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@BostonJoan: Imagine spending millions to offload blame only to have it returned like a bill lost in the mail, which is now overdue.
Dialectic
Brainwashing is the most conservative form of information control because it uses force to change minds. Propaganda, as we have seen in my last article, can be used by both conservatives and liberals. Both forms of entertainment are really politically apathetic, as they try to distract and provide escape from political and economic realities. Rhetoric is the essence of liberal viewpoints dating all the way back to debate among the classical Greeks. Dialectic was also used among the Greeks. It was used for conservative purposes by Plato and later by Hegel while Marx used dialectic to understand capitalism along with human history.
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