Sorry about the delay in posting today. In any event, please check out "Headed for deficit - Florida's leaders squander money on debt". This Daytona Beach News Journal editorial describes the GOP borrow and spend scam, leaving the debt burden for future generations. And our "Jeb!" is doing it with a vengance.
Hmmm - "The state's rebate case against Progress Energy raises disturbing questions about the regulatory process. The central question - why Florida's Public Service Commission backed off requiring the company to make a large refund to its customers - is now secondary to the larger concern over contacts between regulators and company representatives. Florida's attorney general needs to examine - before the rate case is resolved - whether those contacts were proper and whether regulators conducted public business appropriately." See "The shrinking refund".
Hipocrite "Jeb!" Signs Law Prohibiting Local Control Of Minimum Wages - "Gov. Jeb Bush signed a bill Wednesday that prevents local governments from making local businesses pay minimum wages higher than those set by the federal government" See "Gov. Bush signs blocking minimum-wage hikes by communities". Wonder what happened to the GOP pablum about local control?
Arrogance Squared - "The sugar industry launched a legal attack Wednesday against U.S. District Senior Judge William Hoeveler, an outspoken critic of Florida's controversial overhaul of pollution laws protecting the Everglades. In separate but similar motions filed in federal court in Miami and Atlanta, the state's biggest sugar companies asked that Hoeveler be removed from a landmark case that he has overseen for more than a decade -- the original lawsuit that forced the state's environmental regulators to stop allowing farm and urban runoff to taint the River of Grass. The motions contend the judge overstepped appropriate judicial oversight to play politics, issuing rulings in April and May critical of efforts by sugar industry lobbyists and the Florida Legislature to revise the 1994 Florida Forever Act and suggesting Gov. Jeb Bush had been misled about the bill. Bush later signed the bill into law." See "Big Sugar: Oust judge in Glades cleanup". And Howard Goodman's thoughts on the matter.
Byrd Lectures About, Get This, "Smart Budget Practices - "'We have taken the idea of 'living within our means' to heart,' Byrd said. 'Our smart budget practices, combined with doing more with less, have kept the House under budget.' He said the figures showed that House members "have been good stewards of the taxpayers' dollars.'"See "House to return unspent budget funds". Shhhh about "House Byrd "spending nearly $8,000 a month of taxpayer money for daily briefings of newspaper and television stories about Florida politics." See "House Speaker signs pricey contract for media services".