Sayfie Review Roundup - July 18, 2015
Florida's top headlines that attracted the most
readers on Sayfie Review this week
Jeremy Wallace - Tampa Bay Times - July 13, 2015
...State Sen. Jack Latvala is off the market.
The Clearwater Republican remarried over the weekend during a private ceremony in Maine with some of his Florida Senate colleagues in attendance.
It comes a month after Latvala announced on the floor of the Senate that he was going to marry Tallahassee-based real estate agent Connie Prince.
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Matt Dixon - Politico - July 13, 2015
...The Florida Supreme Court's landmark decision to reject eight congressional districts has already shaken up the race for an open U.S. Senate seat and will force a feuding Legislature back to Tallahassee just weeks after it adjourned a tension-filled session.
The court's decision, handed down last Thursday, comes as bad blood lingers between the Republican leaders of the state House and Senate, following an intra-party feud over health care funding that derailed the regular session and forced legislative overtime.
Rather than getting a few months away from the statehouse, lawmakers will now have to return to the sweltering heat of Tallahassee summer as early as the first week of August to redraw the congressional lines.
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Congressional district changes could bring political upheaval in Broward and Palm Beach counties
Anthony Man - South Florida Sun-Sentinel - July 17, 2015
...The court-ordered redrawing of Florida's congressional districts promises to reshape the state's political landscape - and upend the careers of some of South Florida's most prominent politicians.
"It's a shock to the political system," said Mitch Ceasar, chairman of the Broward Democratic Party. Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, a Palm Beach County Republican who experienced first-hand the kind of intense political maneuvering that erupts whenever changes are made to the boundaries of congressional districts, said it would "scramble the egg pretty intensely."
"There's no question it's every man or woman for themselves. And you no longer have this kindred spirit that you normally have," Foley said. "Deutch and Frankel will not become enemies by any stretch of the imagination, but they will be looking to their own survival."
