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    Florida Dream Act receives final push from Governor Scott

    Florida Dream Act receives final push from Governor Scott

    Governor Rick Scott has gotten behind the eleventh hour push of support for the Florida Dream Act.

    By Troy Kinsey,
    Last Updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 2:33 PM
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    TALLAHASSEE -- It looks like the Florida Dream Act may reach the end of the line in Tallahassee, unless a theory going around town turns out to be true.

    The 'Dream Act' is the bill that would grant in-state tuition to the foreign-born children of undocumented immigrants.

    Some people believe that the Senate Republican leaders who have been holding that bill up have no intention of letting the bill die, and are just trying to make Governor Rick Scott look like a hero at the end of the day.


    This theory began taking shape when the governor launched an eleventh hour, high-profile drive to get the bill passed, and if he's made to look like the man who's broken the log jam here, voters may give him credit for that.

    The bill's backers, though, don't care how the bill gets passed, they are just adamant about the bill being passed before lawmakers leave town in nine days.

    Several other notable bills being discussed by the House and the Senate are listed below:

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    • -SB 392, to increase the speed limit on most sections of Florida's interstate highways to 75 mph.
    • -SB 566, to further tighten eligibility requirements for top-tier Bright Futures college scholarships; high school students would have to take up a social/civic issue or professional area of interest in order to qualify.
    • -SB 1060, the 'Pop Tart' bill, to ban school districts from penalizing students for simulating the firing of a gun.


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    • -SB 224, to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
    • -HB 1279, the 'Romeo & Juliet' bill, to ban children younger than 16 from marrying (current law allows it if their parents have died or their parents approve).

    http://www.mynews13.com/content/news...am_act_re.html
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    Florida Republican Party calls out Crist on tuition flip-flop



    Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:26pm

    The Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday called out Charlie Crist's flip-flop on in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants.

    It's true, he has. Crist once opposed the measure but is now saying Gov. Rick Scott has failed to push it hard enough with the 2014 session about to expire.

    Less known is the shifting tone from the Florida GOP's star in Washington, Sen. Marco Rubio. As a legislator, the son of Cuban immigrants supported bills to grant the tuition break.


    It was jarring, then, to hear Rubio in October 2011 say this: "As a general rule, people in the United States who are here without documents should not benefit from programs like in-state tuition." He said carve-outs, while a worthy objective, have become harder to justify.


    Rubio made that remark during a forum in Washington. It came before he dove into the immigration debate, first pursuing a version of the Dream Act that would not lead to citizenship, then becoming an architect of the Senate's comprehensive bill in 2013. The moderate state legislator-turned-anti-"amnesty" Senate candidate had gone full circle. (In February of this year, Rubio was again supportive of in-state tuition, but put the focus on overall federal law changes toward immigrants.)


    In 2006, Crist said legislators "did the right thing" by rejecting the tuition bill. Now a Democrat, he's using the issue before the Legislature as a tool against Scott.


    "They've got less than two weeks to do the right thing," Crist said Tuesday at Capital Tiger Bay.


    As for Scott, we can't find a past instance in which he was on record opposing in-state tuition. But he ran in 2010 as hard-liner in support of Arizona-style immigration enforcement laws.


    Dole wary of youth

    Bob Dole, 90, isn't sold on some young Republicans angling for president. "A number of the younger members, first-termers like Rand Paul, (Marco) Rubio and that extreme-right-wing guy — Ted Cruz? All running for president now. I don't think they've got enough experience yet," Dole told the Wichita Eagle.

    That reminds us that Rubio got his first taste of politics working for Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. From a 2010 Tampa Bay Times profile:


    In his final year of law school but looking like a teenager, Rubio sat down to interview with Bob Dole's presidential campaign. He buzzed about a ticket that included former star quarterback Jack Kemp.


    Al Cardenas, overseeing the Florida effort and not very optimistic about the outcome, took a sip of café con leche and hired Rubio on the spot.


    "I said to myself, 'This is what we need, someone so young that failure is not an option, who hasn't gone through everything to have a more practical outlook,' " Cardenas recalled.


    Rubio plunged into the job, forming relationships that would propel him to the West Miami City Commission and a history-making term as the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House.


    Rubio's backers point to that leadership post to say his experience is broader than the Senate.


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    Fla. Gov. snared in GOP immigration debate

    Florida Gov. Rick Scott snared in Republican immigration debate as he faces re-election

    Published On: Apr 23 2014 07:22:51 PM EDT
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    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -

    With time running out on his first term, Gov. Rick Scott entered his fourth legislative session with a limited agenda dealing with education, tax cuts and the state's economy.

    And as he is locked in what could be a tough re-election fight, the governor is snared in a complicated debate over immigration that has pitted the Republican against members of his own party.

    Scott decided in March to back a measure that would grant a tuition break to some Florida high school graduates who entered the country illegally when they were children. Currently those students pay a rate that is four times higher than what is paid by other Florida residents.

    The bill has passed the Florida House despite a large number of GOP legislators voting against it. But the legislation has gotten mired in the Florida Senate due to opposition from key Republicans. It will take a supermajority vote to revive the legislation during the nine days that remain in this year's session. The bill sponsor's predicts that a vote will come early next week.

    Still Scott is having to use his own muscle to convince reluctant legislators it's time for them to act.

    He's had to personally lobby top Republicans such as Senate President Don Gaetz and he's needed to take a more forceful stance publicly than what he initially intended.

    "We've got to give these children the same opportunity as all children," Scott said this week. "Whatever country you are born in, whatever family or zip code, you ought to have the chance to live the dream. Part of that dream is being able to afford education."

    Scott is taking a firm stance in favor of the bill now even though four years ago he promised to pursue tough measures dealing with immigration.

    Sen. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale, said Scott is only pushing the issue because he has seen polls that show Hispanic voters favor the tuition break.

    Both Scott and his main Democratic rival, Charlie Crist, are already actively targeting Hispanic voters. Both campaigns have launched Spanish-only websites. Scott on Wednesday began airing a Spanish language ad both online and in television markets in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Fort Myers markets.

    The two candidates have traded barbs over the issue with the Crist campaign ripping Scott for "failed leadership" because he did not take a higher profile on the issue until recently. The Republican Party of Florida meanwhile has criticized Crist because he was opposed to the tuition break when he was running for governor back in 2006.

    Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, helped scuttle a similar bill when he was Senate president a decade ago. But he said he understands why there is a big push this year.

    "Things have changed that much in the politics of our party and they have changed that much in the politics of our state," Lee said.

    Lee predicted there would be a "meltdown" if the final days of the session if the Senate does not vote but he remains firmly opposed.

    "I think it's pandering and I think it is fundamentally inconsistent of us to elevate certain groups because we are at a moment in history where that becomes the populist theme," Lee said.

    Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, has been one of the GOP legislators blocking the bill. He has said that a need for the tuition break "has not been established" and that it should only go to students who are U.S. citizens and Florida residents.

    He said it doesn't matter if the issue could harm Scott's re-election.

    "My primary responsibility is the constituents of District 32 who I represent in the Florida Senate," Negron said.

    http://www.local10.com/news/Fla-Gov-...ebate/25628786
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