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#Sayfie Snapshot - December 30, 2015

Today's Hits and Bits in Florida politics


Hot Click

Revenue chief will step down April 1 by the News Service of Florida.


Twitter Trending

@DavidPSawyer: Rubio/Bush try to oust Miami-Dade's #2 GOP official for snubbing them and endorsing @tedcruz https://t.co/5VlwtBF7zf #tcot #sayfie


Quotable

“Quite honestly, Manny is a nobody in Miami Dade...his endorsement brings nothing more than one vote to the Cruz campaign, so I doubt any of the other campaigns...notice the scandal Manny has created within the party.”

- Nelson Diaz, Miami-Dade GOP chairman, on his vice chairman Manny Roman deciding to openly support Ted Cruz for president.


Statworthy

$16. JM Family Enterprises, a Florida-based automobile corporation, made waves within Florida's business community for raising the company's minimum wage to $16/hour this August. As a result, JM's president and CEO, Colin Brown, was just named "Floridian of the Year" by Florida Trend magazine.