April 14. 2016
By Dylan Byers
By Dylan Byers
(CNN) The state attorney's office(click here) in Palm Beach County, Florida, will not prosecute Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski for battery, according to sources familiar with the case.
A former reporter for Breitbart, Michelle Fields, sought charges against Lewandowski after an incident in March where she said Lewandowski pulled her away from Trump as she was trying to ask him a question.
The Florida State's attorney's office said it will hold news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday to address the matter, according to a statement.
The news is a sigh of relief for both Lewandowski and the Trump campaign, which risked facing a major legal distraction during the heat of the competitive presidential campaign.
The incident at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on March 8, the night of the Michigan presidential primary, led to a weeks-long dispute between the Trump campaign, some media outlets and Fields, as to what actually happened....
Seems as though Florida's governor has a problem with understanding women.
April 12, 2016
By Tessa Stuart
Cara Jennings (click here) was sitting in a Gainesville, Florida, Starbucks last week, doing some work for the Service Employees International Union, where she's a contract recruiter, when she noticed Gov. Rick Scott and a gaggle of aides waiting in line for coffee.
Seems as though Florida's governor has a problem with understanding women.
April 12, 2016
By Tessa Stuart
Cara Jennings (click here) was sitting in a Gainesville, Florida, Starbucks last week, doing some work for the Service Employees International Union, where she's a contract recruiter, when she noticed Gov. Rick Scott and a gaggle of aides waiting in line for coffee.
Their exchange began with Jennings — who served as city commissioner of Lake Worth from 2006 to 2011 — asking the governor why he signed a law defunding Planned Parenthood, and ended with Scott scuttling out of the coffee shop empty-handed, Jennings calling after him, "Shame on you, Rick Scott. You're an embarrassment to our state!"
Scott was apparently embarrassed enough by footage that emerged of the encounter that on Friday his PAC, Let's Go to Work, released an attack ad characterizing Jennings as a latte-swilling, Internet-surfing welfare queen....