Sayfie Review Roundup - July 11, 2015
Florida's top headlines that attracted the most
readers on Sayfie Review this week
Candace Smith - ABC News - July 6, 2015
... As the immigration battle among presidential candidates heats up, the attacks are getting personal. Donald Trump retweeted an offensive comment about Jeb Bush's wife, Columba, who came to this country legally from Mexico.
"@RobHeilbron: @realDonaldTrump #JebBush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife."
That tweet was later deleted, but still able to be seen on the cached version of the page. A press aide for the Bush campaign responded by saying, "It's not surprising Donald Trump deleted his offensive tweet. As Governor Bush has said, Trump's comments on immigrants were wholly inappropriate and not reflective of the Republican Party's views."
Steven Girardi - Tampa Tribune - July 6, 2015
...Three months after their engagement, U.S. Rep. David Jolly and Laura Donahoe were married on the steps of Indian Shores Town Hall.
Jolly's father, Lawson Jolly Jr., a retired Baptist pastor, performed the ceremony on Friday.
Jolly, 42, and Donahoe, 29, met in Washington, D.C., where Jolly was her boss at his lobbying firm, Van Scoyoc Associates. Jolly proposed on Easter morning on the beach here, his spokesman Preston Rudie said, but they did not announce a wedding date.
"The Jollys wish to sincerely thank the many friends and well-wishers who so graciously offered their congratulations, encouragement, and God's blessings on their marriage," Rudie said in a news release Sunday.
Legal 'battlefield' takes shape in Senate redistricting fight
Matt Dixon - Politico - July 7, 2015
...After a nearly three-year wait, the outline of a battle over Florida's state Senate maps is taking shape. Subpoenas are being served and a bitter fight has resumed between consultants and the voting groups that accuse them of illegally influencing political maps.
A coalition of plaintiffs, including the League of Women Voters of Florida, filed a legal challenge to the state Senate maps shortly after they were approved during the 2012 redistricting process. They argue the new lines were drawn for "incumbent and partisan favoritism." That's in violation of constitutional amendments passed by voters in 2010 that no longer allow redistricting to be used to favor political parties or protect incumbents.
Plaintiffs take specific issue with 28 of the state's 40 state Senate seats, while attorneys for the Legislature argue that political consultants from both parties tried to influence the process, but failed.
