Dean Cannon

From Scott Maxwell's “Taking Names” blog: Want to get your picture taken with — or even introduce — Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon at a fancy party this weekend? All you have to do is cut a $25,000 check to an anti-gay-rights...

Well, GOP leaders knew this was coming. Embattled and indicted former GOP boss Jim Greer has decided to go public with his version of how lavish spending was not only allowed — but demanded – by party leaders. In the piece by WTSP's Mike...

Want to get your picture taken with — or even introduce — Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon at a fancy party this weekend? All you have to do is cut a $25,000 check to an anti-gay-rights group that has been caught using fake photos of real...

Ten presidential candidates, four U.S. Senate candidates in Florida, several governors and enough conservative talkers to fill a convention center — almost all Republicans or further right — pack the schedule released today for the...

By Rene Stutzman Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon says the Republican Party of Florida should have paid ousted party chairman Jim Greer the $123,000 severance deal it signed and then trashed. Greer, 49, of Oviedo, is awaiting trial in Orlando on...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida NAACP, League of Women Voters and other groups defending new voter-approved redistricting standards are urging House Speaker Dean Cannon to drop out of the legal fight now that a federal judge has ruled against him....

As we noted in Sunday's paper, Orlando is about to become the center of the Republican universe, starting next Thursday with a FOX News debate featuring the GOP presidential candidates, followed by the CPAC/Florida Conference on Friday and the...

Finally. Gov. Rick Scott, House Speaker Dean Cannon and Senate President  Mike Haridopolos this morning named the nine members of a committee established by the Legislature this spring to settle on a date for a Florida presidential primary. The group is...

TALLAHASSEE — Despite public criticism over using tax dollars to fight a publicly supported redistricting reform, House Speaker Dean Cannon said Thursday the House will appeal a U.S. district judge's ruling upholding Amendment 6, which imposed new...

By Dan Tracy, Staff Writer Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon once again endorsed state Senate President Mike Haridopolos this morning in his bid to win the Republican nomination to take on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. Meeting at a downtown Orlando...

House Speaker Dean Cannon just released a statement that criticizes Gov. Rick Scott's logic in shifting some of the vetoed dollars back to education.  Among the projects Scott vetoed was a $400,000 study of the court system that Cannon championed. Here'...

By Mark Matthews and Aaron Deslatte, Staff Writers TALLAHASSEE – Although their fate is still unsettled in federal court, the U.S. Department of Justice has approved the language of the “FairDistricts Florida” constitutional amendments...