Tag: Rick Scott
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In wake of El Sanadi suicide, Florida IG probes every Broward Health contract since 2012
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As Gov. Rick Scott and hundreds of others paid their final respects Friday to Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, Broward Health’s late president, Florida’s chief inspector general quietly opened a wide-ranging investigation into how the hospital district hands out millions of dollars in contracts. -
Florida’s coming war on collective bargaining for state employees
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
When Miami state Rep. Carlos Trujillo was interviewed on Spanish language radio station Actualidad 1020 he boldly proclaimed that Republicans will ask voters in 2018 to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees from the Florida Constitution. -
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GOP governors, including Rick Scott, take cue from Obama on how to push policy
By Rachael Baye
Center for Public Integrity
Political organizations tied to Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner are diverging from the typical so-called leadership PACs used by federal lawmakers and some governors to amass power because they are not just giving campaign contributions to like-minded legislators. Instead they are pushing the governors’ legislative agendas with public campaigns far removed from the campaign trail. -
Gov. Rick Scott won’t release 2014 tax return or info about his blind trust
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid news of Gov. Rick Scott’s investment in a company that’s seeking to build a controversial, $3-billion natural gas pipeline in north Florida, he won’t make public his 2014 federal income tax return. -
Growing chorus of Miami-Dade teachers denounce pay deal by Carvalho, union
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As Miami Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho blames Tallahassee for failing to overhaul student and teacher performance evaluations, a growing chorus of disgruntled rank-and-file teachers accuse him, the school board and the teacher’s union of breaking state law governing their employment contract. -
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Judge: Pipeline foes can’t raise Gov. Scott’s alleged conflict of interest
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Tallahassee administrative judge has ruled that environmental opponents of the proposed Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline cannot raise allegations that Gov. Rick Scott has a financial conflict of interest in the project.
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