Add another prominent Republican voice calling for Jim Greer to step down as Republican party chairman: Ken Plante, the lobbyist and former Senate minority leader:
"There's a group of us that are working to see what can be done ... I think what he really needs to do is go [...]
Republican Senate leader Alex Diaz de la Portilla filed for divorce Dec. 10 with a pretty boilerplate separation filing from lobbyist Claudia Diaz de la Portilla. She followed up Dec. 11 with a counter petition that whacked him right between the eyes by claiming the Miami Senator is "unwilling and" [...]
Picking up a line of attack begun months ago by the Florida Republican Party, gubernatorial hopeful Bill McCollum is accusing his Democratic rival, Alex Sink, of using ``deceptive loan practices'' while she was a top banker.
It's a risky political strategy, considering McCollum's history with the mortgage industry. As a member [...]
Senate Republican leader Alex Diaz de la Portilla wants a divorce, and he says the assets accumulated during his six-year marriage to a Tallahassee lobbyist should be equally distributed. But Claudia Diaz de la Portilla, in her own court filing, depicts the South Florida lawmaker as a husband who spends her money and [...]
WASHINGTON — If the debate over NASA’s future was a mob war, then U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby took the fight to the mattresses on Monday when the Alabama Republican called for an investigation into how federal lobbyists influenced a presidential space panel.
In a letter dated Monday, Shelby contends that federal [...]
Florida International University leaders were eager for one of their hometown legislators to become speaker of the House, and Marco Rubio delivered. "We had a great year," FIU's lobbyist said of millions in new funding in 2007, crediting Rubio and the Miami-Dade delegation.
The following year, as term limits forced Rubio [...]
The political transformation of George LeMieux takes another turn today as lobbyists and corporate interests line up to fill his newly created political action committee with donations.
The interim U.S. Senator will attend a fundraiser at Charlie Palmer Steak house in Washington, where guests will [...]
A Republican lobbyist trying to shape the healthcare legislation in Congress to benefit his drug and hospital industry clients is raising money for Sen. George LeMieux's new political action committee, according to Roll Call. LeMieux has been hammering proposed reforms.
Roll Call reports: In an e-mail sent to K Street [...]
Reading the latest media accounts of lobbyist excesses, it motivated me to list some of the outstanding lobbyists identified in my book, The Golden Years...The Florida Legislature, '70s and '80s. On my blog, www.goldenyearspoliticalcollection.com, I have a Quorum Call listing the prominent legislators, lobbyists and press included in the book, and have [...]
Former Tallahassee city commissioner Allan Katz, a lawyer and lobbyist who helped run President Barack Obama's Florida campaign, just got nominated by Obama to be ambassador to the Portuguese Republic.
Katz, an Akerman Senterfitt attorney, meets regularly with CFO Alex Sink,and was appointed by her to serve on the Citizens Insurance board. He has [...]
The Florida Public Service Commission picked former state senator and Tallahassee lobbyist Curt Kiser to serve as the agency's general counsel Monday, vowing to make a "clean break'' and bring a fresh start to the embattled agency.
Kiser, who served in the legislature from 1972 to 1994 and most recently represented [...]
The Florida Public Service Commission picked former state senator and Tallahassee lobbyist Curt Kiser to serve as the agency's general counsel Monday, vowing to make a "clean break'' and bring a fresh start to the embattled agency.
Kiser, who served in the legislature from 1972 to 1994 and most recently represented'" [...]
Lobbyists in Tallahassee still don't appear to be all that affected by the Great Recession.
The latest batch of lobbying compensation reports due last weekend show that the amount of money paid to lobby the Florida Legislature is actually on pace to beat the 2008 totals.
The aggregated income total for 2008 - [...]
Pinellas County Commissioners' decision to stick a moratorium on new digital signs -- the latest front in long-running billboard battles -- "surprised" Clear Channel, said lobbyist Todd Pressman on Wednesday.
Without putting the issue on the published agenda, the board voted 5-2 for the moratorium Tuesday. Pressman learned of the [...]
Before he became House Speaker in 2006, Marco Rubio had a nice "A" rating from the NRA. But when he faces Gov. Charlie Crist in the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate primary, his rating will drop when they post grades/ratings after the spring legislative session of 2010, said NRA lobbyist Marion [...]
Before he became House Speaker in 2006, Marco Rubio had a nice "A" rating from the NRA. But when he faces Gov. Charlie Crist in the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate primary, his rating will drop when they post grades/ratings after the spring legislative session of 2010, said NRA lobbyist Marion [...]
