Legislative

Michael Elgin Travis, who performs as “Erika Rose” in Key West, has filed to challenge Republican incumbent Rep. Jim Mooney in Monroe County’s House District 120.

A Special Election for later this year has been called for voters in a southwest swath of Miami-Dade County to decide who will replace Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin, who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed the new Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts and Comptroller.

Two men who worked for Miami Beach Republican Rep. Fabián Basabe are suing him for battery and defamation, alleging a pattern of sexual harassment.

The race to represent a House District that covers Highland Beach and Boca Raton promises to be another barn-burner in money raised, if the opening haul of the Democratic candidate Jay Shooster is any indicator.

Former Rep. Joe Saunders, who is running to again serve in the Legislature, now has backing from Democratic leaders in both its chambers.

Dogs will no longer face restrictions based on their breed – only behavior according to legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis signed that goes into effect Oct. 1.

The Democrats want their House District back: Five high-profile elected Democrats are backing Jay Shooster’s campaign to snatch a south Palm Beach County district from Republican representation.

With a sweep of the Governor’s veto pen, more than $3 million in funding for water handling in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties circled the drain.

Megan Weinberger, who runs an animal sanctuary and serves on numerous community nonprofit boards, raised more than $92,300 in her first month of campaigning for the job to succeed term-limited Republican Rep. Rick Roth.

Freshman Republican Rep. Vicki Lopez doesn’t yet have a challenger to her re-election to represent central Miami-Dade County – but a police union can’t think of anyone better.