Sayfie Review Roundup - June 6, 2015
Florida's top headlines that attracted the most
readers on Sayfie Review this week
Steve Bousquet - Tampa Bay Times - June 1, 2015
...Eight members of the Florida Legislature [weren't] at the Capitol for Monday's start of the special session on the budget. All [had] excused absences, including the Senate president pro tem and two of House Speaker Steve Crisafulli's top lieutenants.
Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, had a long-standing commitment, according to Senate President Andy Gardiner's spokeswoman, and is the only excused senator. Eight House members -- four Republicans and four Democrats -- also won't be at their desks.
They include Republican Reps. Dana Young of Tampa, the majority leader, and Ritch Workman of Melbourne, the House Rules chairman. In a letter to Crisafulli, Workman said he will be "out of the country on international waters" from May 26 through June 9 and "it is not something I am able to rearrange."
Marc Caputo - Politico - June 3, 2015
...Marco Rubio finally sold his money-pit of a home in Tallahassee on Tuesday, freeing the presidential candidate from a nagging financial liability and allowing him to distance himself from his scandal-plagued co-owner, former Rep. David Rivera, Florida Republican sources familiar with the transaction tell POLITICO.
Rubio and Rivera closed on the home with an as-yet-unnamed buyer who purchased the home for $117,000 - $8,000 less than the asking price and $18,000 less than the two men paid for it in March 2005 when they both served as state legislators, sources said.
"Free at last," one Rubio friend told POLITICO.
Lawmakers slash Gov. Rick Scott's tax cuts and berate his top Medicaid expert
Steve Bousquet and Mary Ellen Klas - Times/Herald Bureau - June 2, 2015
...Gov. Rick Scott picked a good time to be far from the Capitol Tuesday as House members slashed his tax cuts and angry senators accused his top Medicaid expert of playing politics with health care.
On the second day of a three-week special legislative session, Scott was at Disney's Yacht Club Resort near Orlando, mingling with Republican presidential hopefuls at an economic summit planned months ago by his Let's Get to Work political committee.
Back in Tallahassee, his fellow Republicans who control the Legislature were far less cordial.
