…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 freshman class of just over 40 new members, …
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 Go ...
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 ...
One of the many perks of serving in a legislative body is that of having access to the public records of that body. In the Florida Legislature, the records are ...
One of the proudest moments of my legislative career was to attend the ribbon cutting for the “Robert W. McKnight” administration building at the Sunrise Community in the Redlands of Miami. I ...
Few aspects of lawmaking upset me more than a member refusing to vote, even though they are in their seat on the floor and able to cast an important vote. To ...
