FL: School board candidate labels common core objectors “conspiracy theorists”
Ken Marsh, Democrat candidate for Sarasota County School Board – District 1, has spent 30 years working as a government employee in Manatee and Sarasota Counties. According to Marsh’s biography for the...
View ArticleFL: Gerrymandering threatens congressional districts
TERRY LEWIS Leon County Circuit Judge, Terry Lewis, ruled in July that the state Legislature illegally drew Florida’s congressional districts in 2010. Instead of performing the 10-year redistricting...
View ArticleConsultant receiving money in middle of controversy
Two committees linked to incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, have paid nearly $150,000 during the past month to a Gainesville political-consulting firm embroiled in a legal fight about...
View ArticleWill judge in Florida gerrymandered district case be satisfied?
Historic City News has been following the Corrine Brown “longest-running example of Florida congressional district gerrymandering” case since news broke that Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis...
View ArticleFlorida Chamber offers tacit approval of immigration amnesty
An email to supporters from the Julio Gonzalez campaign states, “Richard DeNapoli, candidate for District 74 State Representative, has been formally asked by the Florida Chamber Political Institute to...
View ArticlePlaintiffs not satisfied with legislature’s congressional district maps
A group of voters and voting-rights organizations said in a filing today that Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis should draw a new congressional map instead of using one the Legislature crafted in a...
View ArticleJournalists can lose access to Florida’s candidates
Should candidates be able to hand-pick who reports on campaign events? Frank Denton of Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union is being deemed “acceptable” by the Charlie Crist campaign, who is picking and...
View ArticleCritical Analysis of the Sarasota 2050 Comprehensive Plan
If you Google the words “comprehensive plan Florida” you will get 11.6 million hits. Florida cities and counties by law have produced comprehensive plans. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity...
View ArticleFlorida Medical Marijuana Advocate is Rich, Powerful, and Influential
Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan is spearheading a move to pass a constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in the state, putting millions of dollars of his own money and his...
View ArticleMedia coverage of campaign event limited by candidate
As editor of Watchdog Wire – Florida, I was alerted yesterday that conservative Shark Tank blogger, Javier Manjarres, had been kicked out of a Bill Clinton rally where the former president was in Miami...
View ArticleFlorida could have as many as 1,789 pot shops
Pot shop. The Florida Department of Health has estimated that Florida will have 1,789 pot shops if Amendment 2 passes. The five counties with the largest estimated number of pot shops are: Miami-Dade...
View ArticleCrist donors conflict with candidate’s platform as a women’s advocate
According to the Charlie Crist for Florida website, the candidate for Florida governor supports “equal pay for equal work,” and is a proud supporter of the “Violence Against Women Act.” However,...
View ArticleEvidence suggests Charlie Crist sold judicial appointments
Nicole Sanders, a thirty-three-year-old law student at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, reports to Historic City News in St Augustine that she has uncovered evidence that suggests that...
View Article‘Fangate’ scandal strikes Crist-Scott debate
Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s efforts to turn Crist’s devotion to a portable fan into a debate-night advantage disrupted the start of their second televised encounter Wednesday night. And the...
View ArticleOpinion: Wyllie running to make a point, not to win in Florida
Adrian Wyllie, the third-party candidate for Governor of Florida who was not allowed to speak in Tuesday night’s televised gubernatorial debate from Jacksonville, aspires to be the Ross Perot upset;...
View ArticleSouls to the Polls: An exercise of political influence
A group of Florida clergy is urging African-American and Latino voters to educate themselves on issues and candidates for political office; and then, to vote early by participating in statewide “Souls...
View ArticleFL: Can a citizen journalist make a difference?
Watchdog Wire’s state editor in Florida, Michael Gold, is no different in many ways than most other citizen journalists—not part of mainstream, corporate media, quick to do his own fact-checking, and...
View ArticleReporting election fraud? There’s an app for that.
True The Vote has launched a new voter integrity tool called “VoteStand”. Reports of election fraud and irregularities blanket news coverage while Americans head to the polls and anticipate final...
View ArticleFlorida Watchdog aids victim of ‘telephone voting’ scam
Florida Watchdog Wire editor Michael Gold learned of one resident on Blanco Street in Lincolnville, FL who was awakened to a telephone call at 3:30 a.m. on Election Day notifying her that the caller...
View ArticleGame of chance settles Florida council election
A count, a recount, military overseas ballots counted, and the decision to break an apparently unbreakable tie for the Neptune Beach City Council finally ended this morning — with the draw of numbered...
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