Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 4.19.21
In every Session, there are clear winners and losers, while others prove more elusive to pin down.
Once again, Florida Politics is assembling an (arguably) comprehensive look at who walked away from Sine Die 2021 victorious, who tanked, and who landed somewhere in between.
Of course, there is the one bill lawmakers must pass: Floridaâs upcoming state budget.
Crafted in the ever-present shadow of COVID-19, a budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 came with a new wrinkle â the stateâs slice of a massive federal relief pie. Who does it help, or maybe hurt?
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 3.8.21
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What they’re reading on the Plaza level: As Florida’s Governor continues to defend himself against various slays related to his COVID-19 response and, now, vaccine rollout,
Ron DeSantis‘ role in the virus has been vindicating. The state’s numbers are lower than places with Democratic Governors, like New York and California, but its economy, saved from extended lockdowns, is thriving. No doubt Team DeSantis is already prepping news conference quips to tout their success.
Ron DeSantis gets vindicated. Image via AP.
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Two reasons Republicans outperformed polls: We know the 2020 election was so last year, but the Monday morning quarterbacking persists, nonetheless. FiveThirtyEight ponders two theories on why polls underestimated GOP success: former President
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The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 5,610 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 1,878,533; active hospitalizations went up by 23 (nearly 0.46 percent), to 4,198; deaths of Florida residents rose by 148 (nearly 0.5 percent), to 30,213; 2,748,495 Floridians have at least one dose of the vaccine.
Voting by mail in Florida ainât broke, so why are politicians planning to break it? | Letters
Hereâs what readers are saying in Thursdayâs letters to the editor.
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A poll worker verifies a Vote-by-Mail ballot as a voter uses the official ballot drop box setup at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center polling station on October 19, 2020 in Miami, Florida. [ JOE RAEDLE | Getty Images North America ]
Published Feb. 18
It ainât broke, so letâs break it
After a string of successful presidential elections, Florida is no longer the laughingstock of Americaâs voting systems, a status earned in 2000. Republican legislators apparently want to fix that by making it more difficult to vote â namely, by forcing voters to re-apply every calendar year for mail-in ballots, assuring that fewer voters will vote and throwing yet another roadblock and cumbersome procedure in the way of elections supervisorsâ work. All this is happening even though