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#Sayfie Snapshot - September 9, 2015

Today's Hits and Bits in Florida politics

 


Hot Click

Governor, mayor lean toward resignation for appointee who made "slut" post via Sue Carlton of the Tampa Bay Times.


Twitter Trending

@SteveCrisafulli: Retweet if you agree - Planned Parenthood’s barbaric practices are reprehensible and need to stop. #sayfie http://t.co/eBwpBBkbCC


Quotable

"You would think that much exposure to oranges and crazy people would have prepared [Jeb Bush] for Donald Trump."

- Stephen Colbert, cracking wise during Bush's appearance on The Late Show.
 

Statworthy
 
$635 million. State economists predict that Florida will have a $635 million budget surplus for 2016-17. Senate President Andy Gardiner has already announced his support for $250 million in tax cuts and higher education funding for January's legislative session. Though the surplus is healthy, it could provoke another budget fight between lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott, who had promised higher tax cuts than what Gardiner is proposing.