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05/05/2019

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07/14/2017

The return of the NFL is nearly upon us. Can I get an amen? Dallas Cowboys rookies are scheduled to report in five days. With the Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals set to kick off the 2017 season with the Hall of Fame Game on Aug...

01/25/2016

Thank you to everyone that attended NSF's Open House in October! It was a wonderful turn out. Familiar faces and brand new ones were able to share in the Anniversary of being in our new building! We thought we should share some photos of the evening. Thank you again!

11/05/2014

State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, D-Miami, was able to hold off a strong and well-financed GOP challenge from Coral Gables attorney Daniel Diaz Leyva for House District 112. In one of the year's 10 most hotly contested House races, Rodriguez received nearly 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Diaz Leyva, according to totals posted late Tuesday by the Miami-Dade County Election Office.

The race for the heavily Hispanic swing district, which includes Key Biscayne and parts of Miami and Coral Gables, was also one of the year's most expensive House contests. Diaz Leyva spent most of the $431,257 he raised, while getting an additional $55,323 in in-kind support, mostly from the Republican Party of Florida.

The decision places the new House membership at an 81-38 split in favor of the GOP, with one Jacksonville seat to be decided in a special election in early 2015.

11/05/2014

Gov. Rick Scott narrowly won re-election Tuesday in one of the nastiest and most expensive governor's races in Florida history, completing a political resurrection that many observers thought almost impossible a year and a half ago.

With all the state's precincts reporting, Scott claimed 48.2 percent of the vote, to just shy of 47 percent for former Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican turned Democrat. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie claimed almost 3.8 percent of the vote, far below what many polls had shown before the election. Scott beat Crist by fewer than 76,000 votes out of more than 5.9 million cast.

"We have made great strides in the last four years, but we cannot rest on our laurels," Scott told cheering supporters at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs. "Now is the time to charge boldly ahead."

The race was yet another example of Scott confounding political observers who expected him to lose a race. In 2010, then-Attorney General Bill McCollum was favored to beat Scott in the Republican primary election, and then-Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink appeared at one point to be ahead in the general election. Instead, both lost.

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11/05/2014

Both incumbents --- one Democrat and one Republican --- lost their seats Tuesday in Florida's two most hotly-contested congressional races.

One-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia lost to Republican challenger Carlos Curbelo 51.56 percent to 48.44 percent in the 26th Congressional District, which includes parts of Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

And Democratic challenger Gwen Graham --- daughter of former governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham --- ousted two-term incumbent Steve Southerland, a Panama City Republican who was elected in the tea-party wave of 2010. Graham garnered just over 50 percent of the vote to 49.4 percent for Southerland, making her the first woman to represent Northwest Florida's 2nd Congressional District.

11/05/2014

.Little more than three months ago, Floridians appeared poised to overwhelmingly pass a constitutional amendment to legalize medical ma*****na.

But Tuesday, after a barrage of negative ads by opponents, the idea came crashing down.

As of 11 p.m., 57.5 percent of voters backed the proposed amendment --- known as Amendment 2 --- that would have allowed patients to receive the substance. But constitutional amendments require approval from 60 percent of voters to pass.


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11/05/2014

In a bitter rematch Tuesday in a district that includes parts of Palm Beach and Broward counties, state Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, appeared headed toward beating former Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff in the highest-profile Senate race of the year.

With almost all precincts counted shortly after 10 p.m., Sachs led by about 6,000 votes, according to totals on county elections websites.

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11/05/2014

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater on Tuesday easily defeated a pair of unheralded Democratic challengers who received miniscule backing from their state party.

Both Republican Cabinet members, who far outpaced their challengers in fundraising and have spent part of the past two weeks taking separate bus tours across the state, were showing close to 20 percentage point leads as the early, yet still unofficial, numbers came in.

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11/05/2014

All three incumbent Cabinet members, all Republicans, re-elected. Ag Commissioner Adam Putnam, Atty Gen Pam Bondi and CFO Jeff Atwater all returned for four more years by voters

11/03/2014

Election Eve is a good day to get a discount on the News Service of Florida's 2014 Political Almanac of Florida

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Who lives where in Florida, and how do they vote? This authoritative guide to the demographics of this unique state looks at each of its 120 state House districts up close, with information about who lives there, and how they've voted in recent elections and why. It's a detailed, must-have guide ...

11/03/2014

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