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The latest news about politics in Florida…

Laura Rawlins-Blum is running for Adam Hasner’s seat

Kendrick Meek backs the use of reconciliation to pass health care

Christopher Mitchell withdrew from the HD47 Race

Karen Thurman filed an elections complaint against the RPOF

Michael Froomkin is recovering from emergency open-heart surgery

Florida is a Race to the Top finalist

The Republican watering-down of the class size amendment heads to the senate floor

Charlie Crist’s corporate income tax cut clears its first committee

The senate passed a public service ethics bill

Bill Heller has a challenger HD52

Progress Florida submitted over a 1000 petitions in favor of Pinellas recycling

A look at Dave Murzin’s bills

A look at Clay Ford’s bills

A look at greg Evers’s bills

Senate Republicans vote to protect the gun trust fund

The Florida Commission on Ethics found probable cause that former Charlie Crist employee Brice Harris broke ethics rules

PolitiFact fact-checks Crist’s state of the state speech

Alex Sink is pushing to connect veterans with benefits

The legislature sends Crist the bill to delay a business tax hike

George LeMieux “sympathizes” with Jim Bunning’s partisan holds in the U.S. Senate

Larry Cretul wants to streamline government and eliminate duplication and waste

Eleanor Sobel and Scott Randolph want the legislature to condemn policies that promote violence against the LGBT community

One third of House members have no challengers for 2010

Several ethics complaints have been filed against Ron Saunders

Mark Foley has opened a consignment shop selling items from his former home in DC

John Thrasher wants to gut teacher tenure protections

Joseph Abruzzo wants online poker legalized

Crist signed the unemployment compensation extension

Crist says he won’t run as an independent

Michele Bachmann is coming to stump for Gus Bilirakis

Mel Martinez joined the board of Progress Energy

Florida is getting shortchanged on CDC funds

Jeff Kottkamp opposes the stimulus

Jeb Bush endorsed Matt Gaetz for HD4

Rick’s Blog is 5 years old

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