La boleta de calificaciones legislativa permite a los floridanos saber qué legisladores ponen a la gente primero y cuáles trabajan para poderosos intereses especiales
¿Qué legisladores estatales priorizaron a las personas y cuáles no? Descúbrelo en www.FloridaReportCard.com TALLAHASSEE – Los grupos de interés público Progress Florida y Florida Watch presentaron hoy su boleta de calificaciones legislativa La Gente Primero (“People First”) de 2025, en el que se califica a los legisladores estatales según las votaciones clave emitidas durante el periodo […]
Legislative report card lets Floridians know which lawmakers are putting ‘People First’ – and which are working for powerful special interests
Which state legislators put ‘People First’ and which did not? Find out at www.FloridaReportCard.com TALLAHASSEE – Public interest groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch today unveiled their 2025 “People First” Report Card, grading state lawmakers on key floor votes cast during this year’s legislative session. Each legislator received a score and corresponding letter grade based on their […]
NUEVA ENCUESTA: Los floridanos no favorecen al “Alcatraz Caimán”; preocupa el costo para los contribuyentes
Entre los latinos, el 46% tiene una opinión desfavorable/muy desfavorable del campo de detención TALLAHASSEE- Una nueva encuesta realizada por Progress Florida y Florida Watch, conocidos conjuntamente como el Florida Communications and Research Hub (el Hub), muestra que los floridanos conocen bien el campo de detención de inmigrantes en los Everglades inaugurado por el estado […]
STATEMENT: Florida Watch Highlights Higher Costs & Fewer Freedoms Under US Senate Appointee Ashley Moody
TALLAHASSEE – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to the United States Senate seat being vacated by US Senator Marco Rubio. In response, Florida Watch Deputy Director Natasha Sutherland issued the following statement: “Ashley Moody’s time as Attorney General of Florida has been defined by her multiple failures […]
Informed Voters’ Guide to the Amendments on Florida’s Ballot Released
As Floridians prepare to cast their votes in the historic 2024 General Election, Progress Florida and Florida Watch have launched the Informed Voters’ Guide to the Amendments for the six proposed constitutional amendments. These amendments could impact Floridians for generations, making the Informed Voters’ Guide a critically important tool that will help ensure Floridians are fully […]
Scott Watch Statement on Rick’s Extreme & Out-of-Touch RNC Speech
TALLAHASSEE — Tonight, Senator Rick Scott spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In response, Scott Watch Communications Director Anders Croy released the following statement: “Tonight all of America saw the true Senator Rick Scott that his constituents know all too well: an extreme and out-of-touch politician who has no problem using lies and baseless attacks to […]
NEW VIDEO: Scott Watch Highlights the “Horrors” of Rick Scott’s Environmental Record
TALLAHASSEE — As working families and seniors from Pensacola to the Keys continue to experience record heat, flooding from one-in-two-hundred year storms that have become annual events, and fish kills that once again foul the shores of Biscayne Bay, the impacts of the climate crisis could not be more clear for the people of the […]
DOBBS ANNIVERSARY: RICK SCOTT’S EXTREME RECORD ATTACKING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
TALLAHASSEE — Today marks two years since the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned almost fifty years of precedent to take away reproductive freedom from millions of patients across America and opened the door for states, like Florida, to institute extreme abortion bans. There has been no greater […]
Legislative report card lets Floridians know which lawmakers put ‘People First’
Which state legislators put people ahead of powerful special interests and which did not? Find out at www.FloridaReportCard.com. TALLAHASSEE –– Public interest groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch today unveiled their 2024 “People First” Report Card, grading Florida lawmakers on key floor votes cast during this year’s legislative session. Each legislator received a score and letter grade […]
FLASHBACK: Rick Scott’s $1.3 Billion Cut to Public Education
TALLAHASSEE — As the school year comes to a close for families across Florida over the next few weeks, many students throughout the state have spent the year in classrooms without a full-time teacher due to the nation’s largest teacher shortage. For those teachers still in the classroom, they have been dealing with a lack […]