April 30, 2024

Who Said That?

Florida's quote of the day

| 3/20/2017

" We're ready, because we're right."

-- Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran

As most Florida lawmakers headed home over the weekend, House Speaker Richard Corcoran hit the road and continued to build a statewide profile.

Corcoran delivered what sounded like a stump speech Friday to 200 people at the monthly meeting of the Panhandle Tiger Bay Club in Pensacola, in a solidly-Republican city that twice supported Gov. Rick Scott, his top enemy in the current furor over jobs and tourism.

Corcoran said a special session of the Legislature will likely be needed to get rid of the "absolute cesspool" headed by Scott known as Enterprise Florida, the state's job recruitment program.

Read more at the Times/Herald.

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