For 27 years now, Florida TaxWatch has been announcing its annual Turkey List. As a lobbyist who has specialized in putting “Member Projects,” as we like to call them, into the state budget, this is a time-honored process.
In 1992, I was the executive director of the Florida Democratic Party. I managed political operations for the Democrats in one of the largest swing states in our nation.
President Ronald Reagan said it best: “It’s not that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that what they know is wrong.” And boy, have they got it wrong over this "voter purge" issue.
The first meeting of Gov. Rick Scott’s Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection took place on Tuesday in Tallahassee to get organized for a series of public hearings around the state in their own version of a listening tour.