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Florida relies heavily on one insurance ratings company. Why?
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/E7HIGOYNYJ7MCBOYWWTFL4N3KA.jpg "Supporters are pushing for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana in Florida.")
The proposal would need nearly 900,000 petition signatures to make it onto the 2024 ballot.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/LFKORFJFGZACVG36RRHJH2OPXY.jpg "In this 2017 photo, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey demonstrates the 'Wheel of Fugitive' board, in which a “fugitive of the week” is selected in a mock game show.")
Three candidates say Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey offered them help in getting a job in exchange for exiting a race and backing his favored candidate.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/IUEJ2T3OQDUS63LUV7QL7LTFDU.jpg "U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio waits for his time to speak during a roundtable hosted by the Republican National Committee in Doral, on Wednesday June 8, 2022.")
Some of the rhetoric over the search has had particular resonance in South Florida.
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![An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Wednesday in Palm Beach. Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 562 316"/%3E "An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Wednesday in Palm Beach. Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/GEQTTLV7YEKELKXTPDL4HSY7SY.jpg "An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Wednesday in Palm Beach. Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/AKM6KLYBDUFNU5TY2GQLFZKFHM.jpg "Kaleb Hobson-Garcia, a transgender man, drove from Tallahassee to speak in front of the Marriott Fort Lauderdale Airport as the Florida Board of Medicine met Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, to discuss proposed rules by the DeSantis administration to ban doctors from performing gender-confirming surgeries or providing puberty blockers to kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/4VZJXVK3EZCE7FPMXWCFTCRCHM.jpg "From left to right: Jim Lewis, Aramis Ayala and Daniel Uhlfelder are all vying in the Democratic primary race for Florida attorney general.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/PMR3P3Z3BBH5NFZISBXA542IDE.jpg "From left, the candidates for the House District 56 race are Republicans Jayden Cocuzza, Scott Moore and Brad Yeager.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/T2ZWHGZVDZFMFLPFNMIUHDSGHQ.jpg "Pinellas County Commission District 2 Republican primary candidates Debbie Buschman, left, and Brian Scott.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6VZATYFOFFCNNNJBIOQTL4SMWA.jpg "Jennifer Wilson, Berny Jacques and Dipak Nadkarni are the Republican candidates for House District 59.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6YY6IFIE3GGYP5OGKPYV5LZIOI.jpg "In this image taken from FOX19 Cincinnati video, FBI officials gather outside the FBI building in Cincinnati, Thursday. An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at the FBI field office.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/EFA2O2DGQZHOTEB224XFFLKMME.jpg "An email fundraising campaign by Tampa Republican state Senate hopeful Jay Collins comes with a prechecked box that makes donations recurring.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SWBW7FULQ6UN2OMAFIOEBKEAKQ.jpg "Christina Pushaw listens during a news conference on Aug. 18, 2021, in Pembroke Pines.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/WMOQOUD6NKMJH4P6PQF2GUV43A.jpg "The notice filed by the Justice Department to the U.S. District Court South District of Florida informing the judge that lawyers for former President Donald Trump did not object to the government's motion to unseal the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is photographed Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/WPO32MDG5TPZFP7A2BYSB3EWI4.jpg "Gov. Ron DeSantis and Marcellus Osceola, Jr., chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, pose for a photo at a signing ceremony on Friday, April 23, 2021.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/UGG3B2QGNNHZNMENUFCFQYHNKE.jpg "Rep. Michele Rayner (D - St. Petersburg), her Florida House District 70 predecessor Wengay Newton (top right) and political newcomer Jesse Philippe are in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary for the redrawn House District 62 seat that spans from south St. Petersburg to East Tampa, Gibsonton and Riverview.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SFTUDAXEHJCW7IYIXUAXA46MZA.JPG "Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister, left, and Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren have worked toward criminal justice reform, supported each other's campaigns and called each other friends, but Chronister said he has long had concerns about Warren's philosophy and prosecutorial decisions, which the sheriff said prompted him to support Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to remove Warren from office.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/GJ7QR2Q5J5ACHIQ75H7JLIBHX4.JPG "Pallets with 355,000 vote-by-mail ballots loaded onto trucks by Hillsborough election officials to be delivered to the post office, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Tampa.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/3FSMT6F45DCIKOKCIO6WDJMUZE.jpg "Former President Donald Trump gestures as he departs Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/2M54CBLNQJAZZJ3F4D35VC6SZ4.jpg "Law enforcement officials search the Uhuru House at 1245 18th Ave S. on July 29 in St. Petersburg.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/5SHMBUERAVDKZQZQXW5VO5TYTE.jpg "Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Justice Department Thursday in Washington.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/NQAYYYCOENPPMEYCB3GALVLROM.jpg "Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/2CP4N7BN7XS6ECFWIEXFFNZMCM.jpg "Ron DeSantis announces the removal of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren during a news conference at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office administration building in Tampa.")
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