The shooting took place at a Walmart in Tallahassee about 12:30 p.m., said Dave Northway, public information officer for the Tallahassee Police Department.
Investigators believe a scuffle over a parking space outside the store escalated into gunplay leaving two people shot.
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At a Walmart parking lot on Thanksgiving night in Covington, Wash., two people were run down by a driver police suspected of being intoxicated.
people are fucking insane
(via comedown)
Florida faces, 1898.
Miami, 1972.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said he will sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to move forward with his controversial attempt to purge the voter-rolls in his state of ineligible voters.
“I have a job to do to defend the right of legitimate voters,” Scott told Fox News on Monday. “We’ve been asking for the Department of Homeland Security’s database, SAVE, for months, and they haven’t given it to us. So this afternoon, we will be filing a lawsuit, the secretary of State of Florida, against the Department of Homeland Security to give us that database. We want to have fair, honest elections in our state and we have been put in a position that we have to sue the federal government to get this information.”Last week, the Department of Justice demanded Florida stop the voter-roll purge, saying it violated the federal Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act, and was reliant on faulty Department of Motor Vehicle records to determine who is eligible to vote.
The Scott administration responded with a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying it would continue the voter-roll purge, and is now seeking the DHS federal database as a part of that push.
Republicans argue that state voter registration rolls are filled with noncitizens and others that are ineligible to vote. Democrats argue that the GOP is trying to strip voting rights from groups that tend to vote Democratic, and that there are only a handful of cases of voter fraud of the kind the GOP seeks to root out.
Any Florida resident that is eligible to vote that is purged from the voter rolls would have to verify their citizenship in order to be allowed to vote.
Scott is a Tea Party favorite who came into office in the 2010 wave election, but has seen his favorability rating plummet into the low 30s since taking office. The lawsuit could spark another heated election-year clash in a battleground state, similar to the Democratic attempt to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) after he stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
People locked up for much longer in the state of Florida
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/06/2837829/report-florida-sees-big-growth.html
“Nationwide, prisoners released in 2009 spent an average of nine months longer in custody than offenders released in 1990. The cost of those extra nine months was $23,300 per offender — totaling more than $10 billion over the nearly 20-year span, the report said.
And Florida went well beyond the national average.”
Makes sense, it’s not as though Florida has ever been at the center of a presidential election controversy before.
USF Soccer Field
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Assailed by bad Florida headlines, Romney shuts the media out.
Steve Benen:
The first hint of trouble came early this morning, when Mitt Romney’s campaign team told journalists there would be no questions for the candidate today. (One reporter responded, “Isn’t that our decision?”)
But the problem intensified when the Republican appeared in Miami, and relied on staff and volunteers to physically prevent reporters from approaching a rope line and asking the candidate questions.
As a rule, media professionals don’t respond well to heavy-handed tactics that prevent journalists from doing their jobs.
What was the big deal? Well, here’s an example, from the Miami Herald:
Welcome to FL, Mitt. Now why did Bain Capital lay off so many people in Miami?
…In advance of Mitt Romney’s fundraising swing through Florida [Wednesday], Democrats are highlighting one of the business ventures of Bain Capital while Romney was in charge: Dade Behring, which, saddled with debt, wound up shuttering two medical technologies facilities in Miami. Some 850 jobs were lost, while Bain walked away with $242-million — an 800 percent return on its investment
The Dade Behring case has been well-documented, but here’s a new wrinkle: The company under Bain’s leadership sought and received millions of dollars in tax breaks for creating jobs in Puerto Rico - shortly before closing it’s facilities, costing nearly 300 jobs.
The company in 1997 received a $3-million federal tax break aimed to promoting job creation in Puerto Rico. It also received a $4.1-million tax exemption from Puerto Rick in 1997 in the name of job creation. Dade ceased its operations in Puerto Rico in the first quarter of 1998.
Obviously, Team Obama’s drawn blood with this, but as Benen points out, “Romney can try to restrain journalists, but the questions aren’t going away.” In fact, this seems to be the worst media strategy possible, since it leaves the Obama campaign doing all the talking and Team Romney running away from reporters — who’s in control of the narrative here?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44q37xeW01qfengno1_1280.jpg)
Assailed by bad Florida headlines, Romney shuts the media out.
The first hint of trouble came early this morning, when Mitt Romney’s campaign team told journalists there would be no questions for the candidate today. (One reporter responded, “Isn’t that our decision?”)
But the problem intensified when the Republican appeared in Miami, and relied on staff and volunteers to physically prevent reporters from approaching a rope line and asking the candidate questions.
As a rule, media professionals don’t respond well to heavy-handed tactics that prevent journalists from doing their jobs.
What was the big deal? Well, here’s an example, from the Miami Herald:
Welcome to FL, Mitt. Now why did Bain Capital lay off so many people in Miami?…In advance of Mitt Romney’s fundraising swing through Florida [Wednesday], Democrats are highlighting one of the business ventures of Bain Capital while Romney was in charge: Dade Behring, which, saddled with debt, wound up shuttering two medical technologies facilities in Miami. Some 850 jobs were lost, while Bain walked away with $242-million — an 800 percent return on its investment
The Dade Behring case has been well-documented, but here’s a new wrinkle: The company under Bain’s leadership sought and received millions of dollars in tax breaks for creating jobs in Puerto Rico - shortly before closing it’s facilities, costing nearly 300 jobs.
The company in 1997 received a $3-million federal tax break aimed to promoting job creation in Puerto Rico. It also received a $4.1-million tax exemption from Puerto Rick in 1997 in the name of job creation. Dade ceased its operations in Puerto Rico in the first quarter of 1998.
Obviously, Team Obama’s drawn blood with this, but as Benen points out, “Romney can try to restrain journalists, but the questions aren’t going away.” In fact, this seems to be the worst media strategy possible, since it leaves the Obama campaign doing all the talking and Team Romney running away from reporters — who’s in control of the narrative here?
Spectacular ‘cloud tsunami’ rolls over Florida high-rise condos
well this makes more sense
cool
