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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing $1 billion in increased teacher pay as part of a $91.4 billion state budget he put forward on Monday. CHRIS URSO | Times
DeSantis’ budget: $1 billion on teacher pay, millions for elections security
The Florida governor also wants to hire hundreds of new corrections officers and spend $1.4 billion on hurricane recovery.
Yesterday• The Buzz
A Trump tax break to help the poor went to a rich GOP donor’s superyacht marina
The Rybovich superyacht marina in West Palm Beach. SAUL MARTINEZ | for ProPublica
Wealthy donors Wayne Huizenga Jr. and Jeff Vinik lobbied then-Gov. Rick Scott for the lucrative tax break — and won it. Poorer communities lost out.
Nov. 16• Special Reports
Impeachment predictions from the Florida Insiders: Trump stays
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, talks with ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) SAUL LOEB | AP
Almost 9 in 10 think the House impeaches Trump but the Senate won’t convict.
Nov. 16• The Buzz
Term limits push Florida lawmakers to secure leaders years in advance
Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, filed a bill, HB 1161, to implement online voter registration in 2018.
This week, GOP senators rallied support around Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, to become Senate president for the 2023 and 2024 legislative session.
Nov. 17• The Buzz

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  1. Woman gets 15 days for throwing cup at Matt Gaetz
    1 hour ago• The Buzz
    In this Thursday, Aug. 1, file photo, Amanda Kondrat'yev, the woman accused of throwing a sports drink at U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in June outside a town hall meeting, arrives at Winston Arnow Federal Court House in Pensacola, Fla. Kondrat'yev has been sentenced to 15 days in federal custody for throwing the sports drink at Gaetz. TONY GIBERSON | AP
    Amanda Kondrat’yev pleaded guilty to assault in August and had faced up to a year in jail.
  2. DeSantis lukewarm on releasing Florida prisoners with outdated sentences
    5 hours ago• The Buzz
    On the issue of whether to retroactively apply changes in Florida’s sentencing laws to inmates currently in prison, Gov. Ron DeSantis says he prefers to deal with cases using the clemency process. STEVE CANNON | AP
    Hundreds of Florida inmates are serving sentences no longer in state law, according to new research.
  3. DeSantis’ budget: $1 billion on teacher pay, millions for elections security
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing $1 billion in increased teacher pay as part of a $91.4 billion state budget he put forward on Monday. CHRIS URSO | Times
    The Florida governor also wants to hire hundreds of new corrections officers and spend $1.4 billion on hurricane recovery.
  4. Threat to impeach UF student body president is ‘completely outrageous,’ Florida Republicans say
    Yesterday• Florida Politics
    FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo, Donald Trump Jr. speaks before the arrival of President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) JOHN MINCHILLO | AP
    University of Florida student body president Michael Murphy received a resolution for his impeachment Tuesday. Then the state’s Republican Party started an online petition and fundraiser.
  5. Term limits push Florida lawmakers to secure leaders years in advance
    Nov. 17• The Buzz
    Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, filed a bill, HB 1161, to implement online voter registration in 2018.
    This week, GOP senators rallied support around Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, to become Senate president for the 2023 and 2024 legislative session.
  6. PolitiFact: Fact-checking Trump’s attack on former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine
    Nov. 16• The Buzz
    Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, right, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. SUSAN WALSH | AP
    Experts on foreign policy said it was ridiculous to think that one person could turn a country “bad.”
  7. Impeachment predictions from the Florida Insiders: Trump stays
    Nov. 16• The Buzz
    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, talks with ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) SAUL LOEB | AP
    Almost 9 in 10 think the House impeaches Trump but the Senate won’t convict.
  8. Florida judge strikes down law that placed GOP candidates first on ballots
    Nov. 15• The Buzz
    U.S. District Judge Mark Walker speaking during 2016 graduation ceremonies at the Florida State University College of Law. [Florida State College of Law] Florida State College of Law
    The ruling, if it’s not overturned, means that President Donald Trump will not automatically be first on the 2020 ballot in Florida.
  9. They didn’t have cows but claimed ‘grazing losses.’ Now they’ve been indicted.
    Nov. 15• The Buzz
    The U.S. Attorney's Office in Pensacola.
    Prosecutors say Farm Service Agency director Duane E. Crawson, 43, of Bonifay, led a conspiracy to get his friends, family members and acquaintances to recruit others to submit false applications for...
  10. Gov. DeSantis appeals judge’s order in Amendment 4 lawsuit
    Nov. 15• The Buzz
    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the Panama City City Hall on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. His wife Casey DeSantis is pregnant with the family's third child. He joked that the family will have to transition from "man-to-man to zone defense." (Joshua Boucher/News Herald via AP) JOSHUA BOUCHER/ THE NEWS HERALD | AP
    The federal judge had ordered that 17 felons not be removed from the voter rolls before a lawsuit goes to trial next year.
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