Sayfie Review Roundup - September 12, 2015
Florida's top headlines that attracted the most
readers on Sayfie Review this week
Sue Carlton - Tampa Bay Times - September 8, 2015
...Gov. Rick Scott and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn weighed in Tuesday on whether an influential Republican activist should step down from the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority after he called a local businesswoman a "tax-payer subsidized slut" on Facebook.
Both indicated Sam Rashid should resign.
The governor, in Tampa for a jobs event at a tech company, said he had not seen Rashid's comments last week about Beth Leytham, public relations consultant for a Hillsborough County transportation referendum. "But I expect everyone to live up to the highest standards," the governor said. "I expect that if it's true, he would resign, and I would accept his resignation."
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Eli Stokols - Politico - September 8, 2015
...During the awkward seven-minute segment, Colbert mostly asked straightforward questions. Bush, characteristically, played it straight, sticking to his standard elevator pitch about the country "being close to being the greatest time to be alive" if only for stronger leadership in the White House.
He drew laughs when Colbert asked about the exclamation point in his "Jeb!" slogan."It connotes excitement," Bush said.
Colbert ribbed Bush harder last week when he released a video in which he appeared to take issue with the candidate's decision to raffle off a ticket to Tuesday's "Late Show" taping in New York City. "No one from Jeb's campaign asked whether this was OK with me to raise money off my first show," Colbert said in the video. "Where's my cut of that sweet three bucks, Governor? Huh?"
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Mary Ellen Klas - Miami Herald - September 5, 2015
...The legal team that uncovered the shadow redistricting process that invalidated Florida's congressional and Senate districts didn't rely just on maps and cloak-and-dagger emails to prove that legislators broke the law. The best clues came in the form of data - millions of census blocks - delivered electronically and found in the files of political operatives who fought for two years to shield it.
