Posts Tagged ‘florida’
Connecticut, what are you doing with your money? UPDATE
Yesterday, the Connecticut legislature passed a $40.1 billion dollar budget. Of course, it isn’t balanced but, Governor Malloy “hopes” to get $2 billion in concessions from the unions, after which, the budget will balance. It includes some $2 billion in increased taxes including a “temporary” corporate tax surcharge on a 7.5% corporate tax rate.
Read MoreTake my shiny new train…please
We did a post last week about Florida Governor Rick Scott rejecting $2.4 billion of your money “granted” to the state to build a high speed rail between Orlando International Airport and Tampa. After the Governor’s decision, Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, announced that he would give Florida until today to “reconsider”. Yesterday, Governor Scott politely…
Read MoreMore Obamacare waivers slip under the radar
Recently the Department of Health and Human Services granted additional waivers from the burdens of Obamacare, this time to four states. Count your blessings if you are a state employee, and live in…
Read MoreMy Governor has guts
Today, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that Florida will be rejecting $2.4 billion of your money earmarked by President Obama to build a high speed rail from Orlando to Tampa. Governor Scott’s press release cites numerous reasons why this project makes no sense, not the least of which are that Florida would have to come up with $280…
Read MoreState of Florida, et al. v. Obamacare
Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in the case brought by Florida and nineteen other states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s requirement that all obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. Of course, the federal government is now calling it a tax, not a penalty when arguing its constitutionality, but that…
Read MoreYour money and high-speed rail
Remember all of the hoopla earlier this year when President Obama gave your money away to various states to build high speed trains? Well, sanity has prevailed, at least in two states. Last week, the newly elected Republican governors of Ohio and Wisconsin said no thank you to $1.2 billion, and “returned” it to the…
Read MoreCongressman Grayson: You want dirty … I’ll give you dirty – UPDATE: MSNBC pushback?
This, in one post, will show you why this outlier will not win and how the Democrats today speak out of both sides of their mouths. In Connecticut they continually whack Linda McMahon for running a “dirty campaign”. Negative, they call it. And yet on Sunday the Democrat party tells the NY Times they intend…
Read MoreState college shuts down conservative group at recruiting drive
Genius move <sarc> by college administration officials if we have all the facts. At Palm Beach State College, the conservative group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was kicked off campus during a “club rush” event where campus groups have tables with information about their organizations. Someone did not like what the YAF had to say.
Read MoreMissouri voters say no to Obamacare
On Monday, a federal district court judge in Virginia ruled that Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare, challenging the mandate that all purchase insurance or pay a penalty, could proceed. Yesterday, the voters in Missouri weighed in on the same issue.
Read MoreFlorida US Senate race: Rubio on his way to raising $787k by Feb. 10
In an effort to raise campaign funds for his GOP primary run against Charlie Christ for the Florida US Senate seat, Marco Rubio racks up more than half of his $787,000 goal. The Stimulus Bomb campaign ends in three days. The Rubio campaign is looking for $1,000 in donations for every billion of the federal…
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