>> Hello, and welcome again to this edition of Capital Dateline.
We're coming to you from the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, on location.
I am joined by Peter Schorsch, who is the Editor and Publisher of Florida Politics.
Peter, thanks for joining us. >> Thank for having me here.
It's Realtor Days downstairs, in case anybody wonders what all that noise is.
>> Well at least we know that the 40,000 realtors are gonna be bringing a house near you to you.
>> They're here. They are in effect. You can see them.
>> Well let's talk a little bit about your empire that you're building.
First and foremost, you have a new issue of Influence Magazine coming out.
>> It features you and a lot of other great communicators.
>> What's the mission of that magazine?
>> It is to shed light and talk about the multi-billion dollar governmental affairs industry
which really doesn't get a lot of coverage from traditional media, and so we come out,
we're quarterly, and this one's our biggest issue yet - 184 pages with shiny pictures of yourself
and other people who...this issue is about the public affairs firms
that really shape the process that goes on behind us.
>> So we look forward to getting a hard copy of that.
You can get it online, but we'll look forward to that.
>> Now you've got a new publication coming out that's Washington, D.C.-focused.
What's that publication called, and where do we find it?
>> We're doing a new email suite building up to having a presence in D.C.
We started The Delegation. It's about Florida's very interesting congressional delegation.
You switch out Jeff Miller for Matt Gaetz, and you're gonna have a lot more headlines,
and we see that across the entire state.
Charlie Crist, John Rutherford, there's a lot of interesting personalities there,
and so we're covering the delegation's impact in D.C.
and also the federal issues that are connected between Florida and the Beltway
and also Florida man, Donald Trump, he's in our state almost every weekend
and so we're covering him a lot when he's down here.
>> Well, between Congressman Gaetz and Donald Trump, we know Twitter will be alive and well
for a long time going forward. We look forward to tuning in to that. >> Thanks.
>> Okay, so now let's talk a little bit about the Senate.
You've been noticing some trends over there, what're you seeing in the Senate?
>> We're here in week three going into week four and the question is,
is the Senate on the precept of falling apart or is it just Chicken Little?
Every time at this point in session, people start to say bills are dying
and that we're never gonna get out on time.
And you're having to evaluate, is this like every other session
or is something truly different on this one.
Number one, Senator Negron has a plan for Lake Okeechobee that not a lot of his members agree on
so it's hard when he's out there by himself and a lot of his colleagues,
it doesn't have a lot of support from the House. That's gonna be a big issue.
Number two, you've got some really strong Senate Presidents to come -
Bill Galvano and Wilton Simpson - and they're their own power bases
and then third, you've got Jack Latvala as the appropriation's chair and he's a host onto himself.
>> Also featured in Influence Magazine.
>> Those forces are at work right now,and the Senate is really
getting its lunch handed to them now by the House, but I talked to a former Speaker last night
who said to me the only thing about the House is they have been running at this pace for a long time,
they could be running out of steam soon.
>> So your take is they could run out of steam, the Senate, maybe the sky isn't falling
and it might be the same thing that we see every year at this time, but it could all be real.
>> I would not give up my lease in May if I was subletting at this point.
>> Alright, so let's move from the Senate and let's go to the budget.
It includes both chambers' and the Governor's.
This is the biggest issue every session, and it's the mandate. What do you see there?
>> Well the first question is the schedule, which his interesting.
We're a little bit behind right now.
Gary Fineout at the Associated Press always says, session isn't real until we have allocations,
and that's basically the big pots of money that get out there, and they get divvied up.
We don't have that yet. The House is pushing to, we're not even gonna really start talking about
budget issues until about week six or seven. That doesn't give you a lot of leeway right now.
The most interesting development this week is the Senate fully funds Visit Florida
which as we've said on shows past, the House is opposed to and has tried to zero out
so already the knives are out for some budget conflicts, so it's gonna be up to the conferees,
Jack Latvala, obviously in the Senate, Carlos Trujillo in the House,
to come to some sort of agreement, but right now it doesn't look good.
>> And ultimately leadership has such a heavy role and where they're either gonna
hold their ground or give in and thus far it doesn't look like either chamber is willing
to give on issues like that.
>> No, not at all and I wonder right now who's talking to who.
I mean obviously there isn't a lot of discussion out in the public,
but is Chief of Staff to Richard Corcoran, Matt Ball, talking to his counterpart in the Senate?
Are some members below the leaders, are they talking to each other?
Somebody go talk to somebody right now is what you want to happen so that some piece will get out
or otherwise get ready for July 4th fireworks, because they're gonna be here that long.
>> Alright then buckle up, we'll pay attention to that and look forward to
Sunburn talking the budget as well. So let's look at the next issues.
So we're up here for very important policy, but certain folks in the Capitol have said
that their focus may be not on the most important issues.
What's going on there on some possibly diversionary issues that are being addressed?
>> Well, Senator Rene Garcia got up, and he spoke truth.
He said why are we focused on issues like liquor walls and beer glasses and lottery tickets
when we should be talking about juvenile justice, health care and these big ticket items
that have really been ignored this session.
It turned a lot of heads last week that it's definitely worth going back and watching.
So what we've really seen is just some very small issues pass like a liquor wall
which would allow you to get the Wheaties and the whiskies at the same place.
>> A lot of vice conversations, we've talked about it before,
we've seen a lot of themes like that, but these health care and child care issues
aren't getting brought up. Let's go back to beer glasses and talk about those.
>> Let's talk about the important issues.
>> So beer glasses are not what we grew up thinking of as glasses
>> You did not want to wear your beer glasses. >> Correct. What are they talking about?
>> Believe it or not, the legislature has control over the number of beer glasses with,
let's say Budweiser, that distributors are allowed to give out to bars and stores,
and the thinking is that Anheuser-Busch will flood the market and all you would see is Budweiser mugs.
Well that keeps out the craft brewers, which have a big presence up here in Tallahassee.
I didn't know that this was an issue, but evidently this is going to become one of the
big food fights of the 2017 Legislative Session is whether or not you can drink out of a mug
that doesn't say Budweiser on it.
>> So let's move away from the alcohol conversation.
Let's go to a legitimately encompassing issue that affects everyone at a gas station
to Publix to a casino, and that's the Seminole Gaming Compact.
Where does that stand, and do we forge a deal going forward with the Seminoles?
Where are they on all of this?
>> What the Seminole Tribe wants is the ability to bond out to build bigger hotels,
to compete with Las Vegas, Macau, etc. They can't do that if they don't have a long term compact.
The banks aren't gonna give them that money. They don't need the compact for the money's sake.
The money that they pay in is a drop in the bucket in their revenues.
What they need is the long term stability.
So right now, yesterday as we film here, they're saying,
Hey, we're getting to the point where we're fed up. We might cut off the money that we're doling in.
Because right now, the compact, even though it doesn't exist,
the tribe is still putting the money into escrow, basically, and they are starting to say,
Wait a second, we might not even do that. You guys need to come to the bargaining table.
Gambling is one of these issues right now, it's being decided by judges and bureaucrats.
It really should be decided by lawmakers, but it's the problem of the thirds.
A third of the legislature doesn't agree with the other two thirds.
You have anti-gambling forces, some-gambling forces, and full on-gambling forces,
and two always beats one, and that's why you never see any progress.
>> So, okay we look at gambling, we look at these major health care issues, child care issues,
the budget and we're at the third, fourth week in session right now, and we're on the clock.
I mean, how much time will the legislature have to actually get these things discussed,
ruminated on and passed? I mean what do you seeing as far as the time crunch that we're under?
You just think it all goes to special session?
>> Well, let's remember what's also coming up. You've got Easter. You've got Passover.
That knocks you out, so right now we're in week three going into week four.
A week there will be lost, and so we need to get some momentum here in weeks four through six
or otherwise that last week is going to look very bad,
and remember what happened when they shut down special session early.
That kills a lot of policy bills just like that, and you've got to start over.
Even if you go to a special session on the budget, all of those policy bills are dead.
They don't get to just automatically come back up during special session.
>> They've got to go back to ground zero to that starting line.
Well let's divert ourselves from this ultra-stressful session, and let's talk about something fun.
What does Peter Schorsch stream when he wants to divert his attention and entertain himself?
What are you streaming right now. What are you looking at?
>> Right now, I just got done watching Dave Chappelle's new comedy special on Netflix
and he brought it. It was so good seeing him back.
>> Haven't caught that yet. Gonna need to catch it for sure.
>> His voice has changed. He's more mature, and it was jaw-dropping funny which
- as Amy Schumer's new streaming video on Netflix, and I'm a huge Amy Schumer fan -
it wasn't that good. So Chappelle's back, Schumer's down right now.
>> Alright, so we've got the over/under on the Comedy Central scenario.
So let's look a little bit at the tournament.
Do you have a bracket, is it busted, who you're rooting for?
You following basketball this year, what's up?
>> I am a good Catholic boy, so I am happy that Gonzaga - John Stockton's alma mater who is,
if you played basketball like I did and you're only 5'9 and white, John Stockton was your role model -
and so Gonzaga, I've been pulling for Gonzaga the whole way along.
I didn't do a bracket, but if I had, I would've had Gonzaga beating everybody else.
>> Well, as always Peter, your insights are just amazing.
Everything from sports to streaming to a little bit of the Capitol here and in D.C.
Thanks for joining us. >> Thanks for having me.
>> That's all the time we have for Capital Dateline.
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