Winner and Lose of Florida Politics Week – Week of 1.26.25 – Florida Politics

Special sessions are always a whirlwind of politics. At no point in the recent memory this was not more true than last week when it was the first time since the first time since Charlie Christ He was a governor, the legislature got in and fell out of a special session.

This time they returned to deal with a series of legislation that deals with illegal immigration in an attempt to align with the President Donald Trump Executive orders and priorities. The problem was that they accepted their own proposals that the legislative guides that downplay the government. Ron Roanis whose allies had offered a different set of bills.

The result is a tour of complaints on Token Roanthis, as he ignited the disobedience of an organ that once made it a bidding with a few, if there are any questions asked. And for this reason, you will not see the Desantis referred to this week as a winner or loser. It is too early to say who he is and we will never know.

On the one hand, Desantis receives a lot of time for air, appearing on a network cable and local broadcasting stations throughout the country. It is placed in the center of the debate about how best to align with Trump. If the goal is to rebel the conversation, the landing is really a winner. And as the saying goes, there is no such thing as a bad press.

But on the other hand, he does not receive what he wants from this special session, and certainly did not come back to Trump the way he can hope. His loyal legislative branch is once upholding his independence, something that was not in the first six years of the era of the assaulting. This must be stolen and it is difficult to say whether the lame duck lands has the same power that it only had months ago.

However cut it, we can see an argument where in this case the perceived winner can actually be the loser and vice versa. Anyone want to take bets?

Now, in our weekly game of winners and losers.

Winners

Mention: Alexander CartraitS The President of the University of Central Florida landed annual extension To his contract, which came with a huge increase in salaries by 20%. Pay Bump increases Cartwright’s salary from $ 750,000 to a huge $ 900,000 salary. With permissible bonuses – now to $ 375,000 – this means that Cartwright can bring a total of $ 1.275 million. For a greater perspective, consider that when Cartwright was first hired in 2020, its basic salary is $ 600,000.

But his compensatory award is not without merit. President of the UCF Board of Trustees Alex Martins Said Cartwright’s Leadership at the Burgeoning University Has “Positioned UCF as a National Leader in Higher Education Adquest Rates and Brought the Percentage of Students who complete their degrees without federal loans up to 72%. He also helped to increase the UCF donation from $ 163 million to $ 262 million.

Almost (but not quite) the biggest winner: Jason PicoS It’s not a great time to be a Democrat in Talahassi. Republicans continue to hold the state government of the Trifect. Adding insult to the injury, their legislative majority is already both super masters, which means that any job they hope for Democrats to achieve is either dead on their arrival, or there must be support for GOP.

But this did not stop the pizza from doing things and to be the best statesman on the Senate floor. This week, as the Republicans in the legislature put a new feud with Desantis on a complete display during a special session that draws Florida’s path to combating illegal immigration and aligning its priorities with the Trump administration, pizza looked at an opening of the whole Trail in the minority.

He announced that he would Submit your own immigration accountAimed at reducing illegal immigration that needs to check a large GOP box by creating legislation that is both effective and has teeth. He said this would include indicators and criteria and would have “efficiency and success”.

But what was divided by Pizzo this week was not a legislative proposal for immigration, more recently his reminder of all this common ground can be found even in the most Partizan challenges.

“The Senate’s Democratic Coach does not oppose (for) cooperation, facilitating and supporting the legitimate implementation of the Federal Immigration Act,” he said, reminding his colleagues and voters that Democrats are not necessarily the “open border” supporter can like people To believe.

The biggest winners: Ben Albrite and Danny PerezS It is difficult to believe that just over a year ago, Florida’s legislation was pleased to carry the water of the government, no matter what. Beloved as a “governor of America” ​​and is advertised as a possible answer to President Trump’s troubles, Zaths often asks MPs in the legislative branch of the state to jump and they would respond with the proverbial: “How high?”

It is no longer the same as Albrite and Perez showed this week by destroying, repetitioning the legislation on the reform of immigration of the landing. Together, the two chamber leaders opposed the priorities of the landing, embarking on the special session of the governor, only to get away immediately and reunite with their own set of legislative priorities.

Both sides claim to make a bid on Trump and both sides have talked to the person himself. But it seems that even Trump refuses to take the landing side. And who could blame him-the proposals of the legislature will name a new law to the 47th commander-in-chief of the nation.

Albrite and Perez have angered so much that has spent much of the week traveling in the state, calling on the legislature in the accepted immigration actions that will convey the control of the implementation of the Commission of Agriculture Wilton Simpson And not the governor himself, “”Grotesque“A policy that is”weak, weak, weak“He even got to the point that he would say he would Veto Trump’s act if the couple ever sent it on their way.

In the meantime, Perez defends his own domination by taking a meeting of the City Hall with the Republican Party of Florida members to insist on the legislative power for immigration reform is far more conservative and this version of Desantis will simply amount to the “”IceS “

Anyway, the way you cut it, Albritton and Perez have restored legislative autonomy this week after six governor legislative sessions that hold them to them.

Loser

Uncommon Mention: Comms of Governor staffS This one goes most Jeremy RedfernA Press secretar of the landing, but we would be rejected not to mention the Og Bulldog of Desantis, Christina Pochawwho now serves as a senior management analyst at his office. They both gave up in X this week to break the unspoken, but still cardinal, governed by GOP’s policy: they are not robbed with fellow Republicans.

Redfern has directed much of his fierce Atimpson, who, according to the approved law of the legislature, will be charged with obligations to fulfill, not a landing.

In one tweet Putting the word republican in quotation marksAssuming that the legislative leadership is not real Republicans, Redfern called the proposal of the legislative power “Anemia Bill” and suggested that Simpson would be sewn for “Big AG Burecacy”. This week’s fingers this week that Simpson can face farmers, he says he takes advantage of unscrupulous work.

There were many more tweets that were heard by fellow Republicans, putting the GOP appointment on a full display. And Pushaw was no different. She walked in back and back senator Randy wellOne of Trump’s sponsors of the Union is opposed.

As with any peak match, someone will eventually drink on their shoe. In this case, it may not have been only Pushaw, but the Desantis staff writes a large, with a fine tweet a Thanks for the reminder The fact that the legislature needs “to hold this meeting of the Supervisory Committee on what you do, and the rest of the #Rinoron team does all day to justify its six figure checks on taxpayers other than social media games. “

Someone else suggested that the landing would not have his aircraft much longer, given the possibility of such an investigation into the use of landing by employees and travel funded by taxpayers.

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Almost (but not quite) the largest loser: Ministry of EducationS Florida students are Performing at their oldest levels In mathematics and reading for about 20 years, according to the national assessment of the National Map of Educational Progress (NAEP), published this week.

He found that Florida’s eighth -graders have achieved the most recent academic year than in the last two decades. The results for reading these students are average in the quarter of a quarter century.

The picture is not much better for Florida’s fourth graders, who have scored the lowest in reading since 2003. The results of mathematics in fourth grade were wore at the same level as two years ago, but still falling under the test results before the pandemic, the analysis found.

As bad as it sounds-don’t be fooled, this is the bad-the results of Florida reflect the national trends that continue to show students who are struggling to keep up with their academics after forge.

This may have softened the ultimate failure if it wasn’t for the Florida Education Commissioner Mani Diaz Reply to the report. He failed to think and identify ways of improving and instead to give up ignorance and to direct his fingers.

Diaz said he was “surprised and horrified” by the results, according to Orlando Sentinel, and then called into question the NAEP methodology. Instead of looking for home repairs, Diaz urged federal officers to correct any “disadvantages”.

This is one for the adults in the room to play policies and blaming games behind closed doors, it is another thing to make it completely on the back of children who need resolution, not condemnation.

The largest loser: the processS For some of us this week, it was similar to the release of a new series of our favorite show, ready for a weekend. But the same people who saliva of the soap opera of all this also understand that it makes the process as a large losing fat. To put it, the lobbyists will not know who to trust in this year’s regular session. And neither the legislators of the ranking.

Let’s explain.

It seems that legislation needs leadership support to do so through the strict legislative process. So someone likes Blaise IngogliaWhoever took the landing country in this immigration battle is unlikely to receive many accounts. But Zanthis also has a powerful thing called a veto pen. You can bet your lower dollar any legislation, coming out of 400 Monroe St., will get a heavy look and possibly or even probably a large red inclination. This is good for anything that Republicans can bet on a safe number of supporters to veto, anything that requires to buy Democrats can be doa.

The problem is also for lobbyists. They will have to go through Albrite and Perez to introduce priorities through the legislature, but in this way they can attract the rage of landing, and this is afraid of a veto pen.

The result will probably not lead to an unproductive session. Trifecta almost guarantees the progress of conservative priorities. But this deals with a great headache for participants.

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