Category: Issues
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Supreme Court won’t let abortion-proposal sponsor challenge GOP’s ‘dirty trick’; Justice Labarga cries foul
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Sponsors of an abortion-expanding proposal for Florida’s Nov. 5 ballot can’t challenge what they call a “dirty trick” to convince voters it’s too expensive because the sponsors played a supporting role, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. -
Abortion amendment sponsor wants Florida Supremes to thwart GOP leaders’ ‘dirty trick.’ Good luck with that
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Amendment 4’s sponsor claims Republican legislators went too far in a scheme to sabotage the measure to limit government interference with abortion that voters will see on the Nov. 5 ballot. -
Project 2025, DeSantis and a retired Florida Supreme Court justice’s thoughts on Nazi Germany
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Much of Project 2025, the sweeping MAGA program that’s set to roll out nationally next year if Donald Trump assumes the presidency again, should be familiar to Floridians living under the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
DeSantis ends 50 years of ethics oversight by hobbling state and local investigators
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The late Gov. Reubin Askew, who helped fashion the Sunshine Law and ethics rules for state government, recalled in an oral history that when Florida politicians saw this major reform brewing in the mid-1960s, “it just scared them to death.” Now their successors have little to fear. -
Waste Management scholarships gifted to Cooper City commissioner’s twins may violate ethics laws
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
On Jan. 29, Cooper City Commissioner Lisa Mallozzi certified that she had completed four hours of annual required ethics training. She did the same for 2022 and 2023. Unfortunately, there was no requirement that she remember what she was taught. -
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The long hidden Florida connection to Ireland’s enduring peace
By Abdon Pallasch
FloridaBulldog.org
Just months after it started 26 years ago, Northern Ireland’s peace process could have collapsed after an IRA splinter group killed 31 people with a car bomb in the small town of Omagh. But that group largely dissolved after American trucker-turned spy Dave Rupert helped convict its leader.
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