• Senate President Andy Gardiner is calling for transparency and accountability on Amendment 1 as the Legislature prepares to reconvene next week in a special session.
His comments come as environmentalists plan rallies statewide Saturday including in Orlando and Melbourne.
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• Do you remember that time in 2013 when a slightly bedraggled Gov. Rick Scott, seemingly aiming for that weird gut of compassion, went onto television to say that he couldn’t possibly refuse Medicaid expansion for all of the ailing people in the state? It turns out that his whole dance of populism was tied to waiver negotiations with the feds. He quickly changed camps when he got his way. Now it’s even worse. All of the sudden, it’s Medicaid’s fault for being a broken system that has grown in cost at three times the rate of state revenues. All the sudden it’s all about the poor people increasingly going to the emergency room for service. And, let it be noted …
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• Senate President Andy Gardiner said lawmakers will have to find a way to get past the public acrimony that’s surfaced since the Florida House adjourned early and without a budget. Gardiner has requested a June special session.
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• Without an agreement on the state budget in sight, the Florida House adjourned Tuesday afternoon three days early.
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• The Florida Senate unanimously passed legislation requiring injuries to racing greyhounds be reported to the state.
There are more than a dozen greyhound racing tracks across Florida, including those in Melbourne and Daytona.
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