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 […]
SCOTT WATCH DEBUTS “SHAPESHIFTER” DIGITAL VIDEO
TALLAHASSEE — In the Sunshine State, Senator Rick Scott has been a dark political force casting a shadow over the freedoms of the people of Florida for more than a decade. Funding his political ambitions using a fortune acquired while overseeing the largest Medicare fraud in United States history, this representative of the wealthy elite […]
SCOTT WATCH HIGHLIGHTS RICK SCOTT’S EXTREME AGENDA FOR HARDWORKING FLORIDIANS & SENIORS
TALLAHASSEE — Throughout his time as a politician, Senator Rick Scott has put forward policies which would harm the people of Florida. Whether it is his support for a national abortion ban and to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his plan to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it, or to raise taxes […]
Progress Florida & Florida Watch Announce Scott Watch, Launch Spanish-Language Radio Ads in South Florida
TALLAHASSEE — Today, Progress Florida and Florida Watch, collectively known as the Florida Communications and Research Hub (the Hub), announced the launch of Scott Watch. This new joint accountability project will focus on the ways Florida’s junior United States Senator, Rick Scott, has let down the people he was elected to serve in order to advance his […]