Best of the Blogs: Sunburst Bubble

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 8-3-12
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Youth activists infiltrate Florida immigrant detention center, find people wrongly held
By Sue Sturgis
Facing South
Activists with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance intentionally placed themselves in deportation proceedings in order to enter the Broward Transitional Center, an immigration detention facility in Florida -- and they say they found scores of detainees who shouldn't be there under the Obama administration's revised deportation policies.

Gov. Rick Scott Kept Official State Email Account Off Public Records Site
By Inkberries
Beach Peanuts
Because Florida Gov. Rick Scott began his term by deleting his transition emails due to "an error," his announcement last May that he was making his emails public on a website called "Project Sunburst" all in the name of "transparency," the news was met with a certain amount of skepticism.

Georgia Lawyer Thinks She Knows Better Than Florida Law Enforcement
By Brughart
Hrrumph
Florida Supreme Court Justices standing for merit retention never draw much attention...until 2010 when groups actively campaigned against two of the four justices who were then standing for merit retention at that time.

Dr. Knight shines the light of truth brightly on the Adena Springs Ranch application for a water use permit
By Sandspur
SWFWMD Matters
Make statements of fact that aren't and then publish them as if they are.

Former FL GOP chair calls party officials liars, "whack-a-do, right-wing crazies''
By DavidKC
Daily Kos
Lost amid the Olympics and Romney's gaffe-a-thon is some stunning Republican Party in-fighting here in Florida - just in time for the RNC Convention in Tampa!