Health Care CEO's Lavish Pay Package Shows How the 1% Get Paid - Business - The Atlantic Wire

His salary is a modest $1.66 million a  year, but he also gets annual cash bonuses of between $10 million and $13 million

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Tax loopholes for millionaires are "crazy" | Democrats.org

I'm sure they can spin this to say he didn't mean todays millionaires he meant bus driver that became millioniares because they joined a union.

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State saves but they pay!!!!

Scott kept his promise to reduce the size of the state government bureaucracy. But he did so at the expense of real people with mortgages, health care bills, college tuition payments and credit card payments

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Don't End Agricultural Subsidies. Fix Them. - NYTimes.com

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Gov's office says (incorrectly) that they didn't kick anyone out of budget signing | Florida politics blog: The Buzz | tampabay.com & St. Petersburg Times

 Scott staffers wearing suits and black earpieces. They told the deputies that the budget signing was a private event and that a group of Democrats standing or sitting in the last two rows had to leave.

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Sides battle over Florida insurance bill as it awaits Gov. Rick Scott - St. Petersburg Times

"Quite simply, the bill on Gov. Scott's desk is not designed to benefit you," Fasano wrote. "It will instead increase your rates and increase insurance company profits."

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Nonprofit run by Florida lobbyist Ron Book's daughter nets $1.5 million, but not for what they asked for - St. Petersburg Times

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League of Women Voters accuses Florida legislature of voter suppression

The new rules that apply to any third party voter registration effort requires volunteers to register with the Elections Division and to return each filled out registration card to the their local supervisor of elections office within 48 hours or face fines up to $1,000 dollars.

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Governor Rick Scott tours local TV stations with his message of jobs

Scott's remedy to Florida's stubborn unemployment, which remains higher than the national average, is a sort of trickle-down program for corporations -- lowering, then eventually eliminating, their taxes

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Florida's high-speed rail money goes to 15 states - St. Petersburg Times

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Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions - St. Petersburg Times

Traditionally, university donors have little official input into choosing the person who fills a chair they've funded. The power of university faculty and officials to choose professors without outside interference is considered a hallmark of academic freedom

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Legislature reckless and wrong -Average Floridians were, an afterthought St. Petersburg Times

Average Floridians were, at best, an afterthought

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Health Care Law Challenge Inches Toward Supreme Court - ABC News

the costs the uninsured have passed on to providers, patients and the insured population

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Worst of the 2011 Florida Legislature - St. Petersburg Times

 on the bright side, they outlawed bestiality and droopy pants in public schools.

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Florida Legislature sets the State back 30 years...The enitre session is the Public be Damned

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Florida Legislature passes rewritten election rules critics say aim to suppress voter turnout - St. Petersburg Times

The most debated parts of the bill deal with a pullback in early voting and making it harder for voters who move, many of them college students, to update their legal addresses when they vote. Early voting has been more popular among Democrats

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Bill would reverse ban on spraying sewage on farmland - St. Petersburg Times

During Monday's debate, one lawmaker, Rep. Bryan Nelson, R-Apopka, urged his colleagues to repeal the ban because keeping it in place would drive up the cost of disposal, which he compared to imposing a tax on people with septic tanks.

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Illinois Wins High-Speed Rail Cash That Florida Turned Down, For Chicago-To-St. Louis Line

the fact that his state suffers from 12 percent unemployment and the money would have brought thousands of new jobs.

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Obama Pushed for 'Fight Your Way Out' Option in bin Laden Raid | Swampland

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Florida Lawmakers agree on $68 billion pork laden budget, with tax cuts - St. Petersburg Times

lawmakers Tuesday quickly agreed to spend, spend, spend about $156 million on their hometown districts in projects that fund county health departments, a regatta center, meals for seniors, college buildings, a botanical garden and veterans programs.

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PolitiFact Florida | Bill Nelson criticizes state election bill, cites number of tossed provisional ballots or how to win a State without really trying!

"Look at history," Nelson answered. "Look at the provisional ballots in 2008. Fifty-five percent of them were discounted. Fifty-five percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count."

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Students will see tuition hikes, less help from Florida budget - St. Petersburg Times

College and university tuitions will rise by at least 8 percent just as the state's most popular scholarship program shrinks by a fifth

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