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#Sayfie Snapshot - September 8, 2015

Today's Hits and Bits in Florida politics

 


Hot Click

How Trump Got in Jeb's Head via Eleanor Clift of The Daily Beast.


Twitter Trending

@FloridaGOP: The Sunshine State's private sector job growth is higher than U.S., Republican leadership at work! #sayfie


Quotable

“These are real serious people with real money and the ability to raise money who talked to me about running...I’m really thinking about this — thinking about it a lot. It’s a serious decision and this is a big issue.”

- Martin Karp, Miami-Dade School Board member, considering a primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz over her support for the Iran deal.
 

Statworthy
 
$115,000. Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has greatly reduced its political spending in Washington D.C. so far in 2015. The company spent $1.1 million in 2014 but has spent a mere 10% of that total so far this year, laying off lobbyists in the process.