Rubin Turnbull & Associates lands lobbying deal with Qatar
Bill Rubin and Heather Turnbull.
The Qatari government has hired lobbying firm
Rubin Turnbull & Associates, according to documents filed with the U.S. Justice Department last week.
According to the disclosure, the firm “has been engaged to provide advice and assistance to (Qatar) in government relations, public affairs, and communications in Florida to promote commercial, philanthropic, academic, cultural and other exchanges to advance the mutual interests of Florida and the State of Qatar.”
The paperwork was filed on April 1 and covers named partners
Bill Rubin and
Jacqueline Carmona,
The documents also list
After sugar’s $11 million investment, a bipartisan push to protect industry By Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
Published: April 4, 2021, 6:02am
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2 Photos A Rosenwald Elementary School teacher took this undated photo of a sugar cane field burn on a school day just outside the fence surrounding the school grounds in South Bay. (Courtesy to the Miami Herald/TNS) Photo Gallery
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – If the aroma of organic fertilizer repeatedly wafts into your yard from a nearby working farm and you try to sue to stop it, it’s likely to be considered a nuisance lawsuit and you’ll be barred by law under Florida’s “Right to Farm Act.”
Do Florida lawmakers want to make it harder to sue sugar farmers?
A state senator says environmentalists are misreading his bill. They say heâs responding to a recent lawsuit.
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When sugar farmers burn the cane fields near her house, Debra Jones knows what to expect.
âYouâve got to sweep when itâs going, and it just bothers me breathing-wise,â she said, describing soot falling on cars and sidewalks in Pahokee. âIt comes down like black rain.â
Debra Jones, 65, of Pahokee. [ Photo courtesy The Berman Law Group ]
Jones, 65, is one of several residents suing sugar companies, arguing that the burning hurts their health and their properties. Her lawyers say Jonesâ family uses nebulizers to make breathing easier during the burning season.
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Florida lawmakers are trying to make it harder to sue farmers. They say it s to prevent conflicts between existing farms and city dwellers who moved in next door. But environmentalists fear it s actually to protect the practice of sugarcane burning in South Florida, which has resulted in a federal lawsuit.
Lawmakers put Florida s Right to Farm Act into statute decades ago to protect farmers from conflicts created by new neighbors. Whether that conflict result from the smell of cow manure or the clucking of chickens, neighbors can t say the farm is a nuisance if it s been operating for a year or more and wasn t considered a nuisance when it started. There are exceptions, but those are limited.