The tension in the Senate was chilling…W.D.‘s group had 12 members and Dempsey’s group had 12 members on the Appropriations Committee in 1981. The one non-committed Senator was Harry Johnston of …
The Dean of the Florida Senate was mad. It was not often that Senator Dempsey Barron was out foxed…and by the fox he had put in charge, at tha ...
I am often asked to grade the Governors with whom I served, or in some cases, those with whom I had enough inter action to grade them. It is almost ...
Every two years, after the November elections and appointments to Congressional Committees are announced by the Speaker of the House and the Senate Ma ...
It was 1973. Reubin Askew was in the 3rd year of his historic term as one of the best Governors ever to serve Florida, and according to a published Harvard study, ...
It was an incredible upset in 1976. Jimmy Carter was listed well below our own Governor Reubin Askew (D., Florida) as possibe Democratic candidates to take on incumbent and popular President Gerald ...
I realize “dynasty” is a pretty strong word to use today in political terms. But, I would submit that the Mica family is about as close to it as you ...
