The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
CFO Alex Sink issued a legal opinion today that amounts to an "I told you so" to Attorney General Bill McCollum, who questioned the constitutionality of her proposal in September to expand the SBA that oversees Florida's $110-billion pension fund....
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Florida CFO Alex Sink plans to save $1 million and go greener by getting rid of payment paper warrants. Sink will have future payment warrants sent electronically.
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
So the Alex Sink for Governor campaign unearthed a photo of Republican opponent Bill McCollum smiling with accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein (more here). Now McCollum's folks have dredged up their own photo of Sink and Rothstein. Here it is.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
TALLAHASSEE -- Remember not too long ago when she trashed all her staff's Blackberrys? Now Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is going after the paper people waste in the course of operating and communicating the daily doings of government. Sink...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Among the things for which Bill McCollum can be thankful this Thanksgiving: That people keep sending Buzz photos of alleged Ponzi schemer/top fundraiser Scott Rothstein appearing to be best buds with Alex Sink.
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Vowing to save the state $5 million, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Monday she's asking legislators to make it easier for her office to go paperless to collect payments from vendors. The proposed legislation would allow her to require...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Vowing to save the state $5 million, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Monday she's asking legislators to make it easier for her office to go paperless to collect payments from vendors. The proposed legislation would allow her to require...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Someone sent us this nice shot of Alex Sink and her pal, disgraced fundraiser/alleged Ponzi scheme king Scott Rothstein, who has enough bling on his hands to make Mr. T look like the picture of understated taste by comparison.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
TALLAHASSEE -- The Alex Sink gubernatorial campaign sent out a photo of a smiling Bill McCollum and Scott Rothstein earlier this month, taken in the better days before Rothstein was accused of defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars from investors....
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
CFO Alex Sink issued a legal opinion today that amounts to an "I told you so" to Attorney General Bill McCollum, who questioned the constitutionality of her proposal in September to expand the SBA that oversees Florida's $110-billion pension fund....
FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... limit the subsidies to statewide officeholders like Gov. Charlie Crist and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, or to legislators like Senate President Jeff Atwater and House Speaker Larry Cretul. About 27,479 state employees -- many of them high-level bureaucrats and political appointees -- also get the break. So do their families. "I think it's appropriate. I think it's part...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Former Tallahassee city commissioner Allan Katz, a lawyer and lobbyist who helped run President Barack Obama's Florida campaign, just got nominated by Obama to be ambassador to the Portuguese Republic. Katz, an Akerman Senterfitt attorney, meets regularly with CFO Alex...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sometime next year, Alex Sink and Bill McCollum plan to get serious about creating jobs. McCollum, a 20-year Republican congressman from Longwood and first-term attorney general running for governor, is offering many of the same ideas conservatives have pushed for...
FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
... water supplies? ". "Sometime next year" Aaron Deslatte: "Sometime next year, Alex Sink and Bill McCollum plan to get serious about creating jobs." The crown jewel of Florida's push to create high-tech jobs is the Scripps Florida research institute in Jupiter. It cost the state cost $310 million in 2003 -- and has so far created 321 jobs, according to a state...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... limit the subsidies to statewide officeholders like Gov. Charlie Crist and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, or to legislators like Senate President Jeff Atwater and House Speaker Larry Cretul. About 27,479 state employees — many of them high-level bureaucrats and political appointees — also get the break. So do their families. (Story here)
