THE BUZZ: FLORIDA POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott announced his vetoes with little fanfare this year but labeled the spending plan “Florida Families First.”Tia Mitchell | Times

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signs budget, vetoes $368 million in spending

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott signed a record-sized $74.1 billion budget Monday, but not before trimming off hundreds of millions of dollars in local projects and proposed tuition increases. Scott vetoed nearly $368 million in spending from the budget legislators presented him two weeks ago, using his line-item aut …

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Democrat Rich says she's ready to take on Scott

Democrat Rich says she's ready to take on Scott

SAFETY HARBOR — For 10 years, political pros have taken it almost as gospel that the strongest statewide Democratic candidates are centrists from Florida's top battleground region of Tampa B …

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PolitiFact: Fact-checking Rick Scott's jobs math

PolitiFact: Fact-checking Rick Scott's jobs math

The statement"We are already almost halfway to our 2010 goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years."Gov. Rick Scott, in his budget letterThe ruli …

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