Oooops! The Florida Legislature is already knee deep in committee meetings and the budget was presented by the governor on Thursday. Many if not most municipal governments have already sent their legislative priorities and designated lobbyists to Tallahassee to fight for their pet projects and piece of pork pie. But not Miami, where city commissioners […]
Lobbyist Ron Book, who secretly worked against the Miami-Dade Commission during the last session in Tallahassee — even though we pay him to work for us — by sneaking puppy mill language into not one but two failed legislative bills, could have lost his juicy contract Tuesday to lobby for the county in Tallahassee because he […]
Two sneaky attempts to stop the crack down on puppy mills have been thwarted, thanks mostly to animal rights activists who kept their eye on the bouncing ball and waged a campaign of complaints to get two amendments pulled from legislative bills this session. And they took on one of the most powerful lobbyists in […]