Florida's new Democratic Senate nominee, Angie Nixon , and the state party's chair had a heated conversation Friday which included a yelling match about the impact of socialism and the challenges of campaigning in a red state like Florida, three people familiar with the conversation tell Axios. Why it matters: The conflict exposes the fault line in the party between the progressive base embodied by Nixon and the establishment represented by the state party's chair, Nikki Fried. - Democrats already face an uphill battle in their effort to unseat Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. An escalating war of words between Nixon and Fried complicates efforts to unify Democrats. Zoom in: Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who won the…
Angie Nixon's stunning Florida Senate primary win on Tuesday gave the Democratic Socialists of America its biggest statewide breakthrough yet: For the first time this year, a DSA member won a major-party nomination for statewide office. Why it matters: The breakthrough —the biggest upset in modern Florida Democratic politics— was also stunning because Republicans have spent years making opposition to socialism central to their political brand in the state. - Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative and former union organizer who joined DSA during the campaign, beat former Trump impeachment witness Alex Vindman . - The scale of the upset was extraordinary: Nixon won by double digits despite raising just $975,000 to Vindman's $16.3…
This year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 484, which deemed local governments had the power to decide development regulation for data centers.
Originally, Senate Bill 484 specified state agencies could not sign nondisclosure agreements with companies preventing them from disclosing the potential for a new data center to the public, but the amended version would allow non-disclosure agreements and contracts restricting the disclosure of information to the public.
The bill forgoes changes to the corporate income tax code that were in the One Big Beautiful Bill, creating “an administrative burden for businesses,” said French Brown, a lobbyist for the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
The bill prohibits government agencies from signing nondisclosure agreements with “large load” customers and gives local governments authority over their planning and land development regulations.
