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		<title>The Real Deal on Privatization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much is being made of the respective benefits and negatives of privatization.  After having chaired the Florida House of Representatives Subcommittee on Prisons and Offender Rehabilitation, I had exposure to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>More Valuable Gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Florida legislative reappointment maps on their way to the courts for review, I am reminded of the process 30 years ago.  Although I had announced that I was ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/02/11/more-valuable-gone/</link>
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		<title>Black Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was the description rendered by the Florida Capitol Press Corps to the 1976 legislative appointments announced by then Speaker of the House of Representatives Donald Tucker (D., Wakulla).  During his ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/02/07/black-tuesday/</link>
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		<title>The 1976 Odd Couple in the Florida House of Representatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who were they? Representative Alan Becker (D., Miami Beach).  A recent UM law school graduate, hailing from Brooklyn, New York.  If not the most liberal member of the House, certainly one ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/02/03/the-1976-odd-couple-in-the-florida-house-of-representatives/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Who&#8217;s Who&#8221; 1976 Democratic Presidential Primary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Talk about a &#8220;Who&#8217;s Who&#8221; of Democratic politics, look at who started out running for President against incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976: U.S. Senators:  Scoop Jackson (Wa.), Frank Church ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/31/the-whos-who-1976-democratic-presidential-primary/</link>
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		<title>A Different Kind of Commission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1982, a health care act was amended to include what might have sounded like just another study group or commission.  It was given a long, somewhat obscure name, &#8220;The ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/27/a-different-kind-of-commission/</link>
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		<title>I Would Do It Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich turn an embarrassing question into a rallying cry against the &#8220;liberal, elite media,&#8221; brough back a memory from my campaign for ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/22/i-would-do-it-again/</link>
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		<title>The Chairman&#8217;s Budget Allocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my weekly political segment on ABC TV News/WTXL 27 HD, I have been asked how the state&#8217;s annual budget is developed.  It may surprise readers to know that generally ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/19/the-chairmans-budget-allocation/</link>
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		<title>Our Senior U.S. Senator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Golden Years&#8230;The Florida Legislature, &#8217;70&#8242;s and &#8217;80&#8242;s, I discuss a number of young Floridians destined for success in public service&#8211;Bob Graham, Bob Shevin, Ander Crenshaw, Karen Coolman, Bruce ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/15/our-senior-u-s-senator/</link>
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		<title>The Sheriff and The Colonel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Veteran Florida legislative watchers will recall two of my favorite members of the House of Representatives  from the early 1970&#8242;s, Former Hillsborough County Sheriff and State Representative Ed Blackburn (D., Temple ...]]></description>
		<link>http://flpoliticalcommentary.com/2012/01/09/the-sheriff-and-the-colonel/</link>
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