Watching the deliberations and amendments offered in Tallahassee, or perhaps lack thereof, on SB6 a week ago, it was particularly interesting in light of the advice I got about 40 years …
…our per diem? The time was just after the election in 1974, in a room in the Florida House of Representatives. Present was most of the ...
That is the title the conservative Wall Street Journal gave newly elected Republican Governor Claude Kirk, early in his term in 1966. The paper sp ...
It was tax payment day, April 15, 1980. Susan and I were on our way to Andrews for lunch, when an aide to Florida Governor Bob Graham came running u ...
Steve Ross was badly overweight. But that didn’t prevent him from incomparable success as a political advisor to such luminaries as Florida Governors Reubin Askew and Bob Graham, Miami Mayors Maurice ...
As outlined in my book, The Golden Years…The Florida Legislature, ’70s and ’80s, one of the least proud events in my life, was my association with Charlie Whitman, while growing ...
If there was ever a person with a destiny for politics, it was the late Attorney General Bob Shevin (D., Miami). From a sterling high school record, through college and law school, ...
In my previous entry, I described an incumbent perk of using the official journals of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives as “communication tools,” which can be of great ...
