The Miami Herald's Marc Caputo and Patricia Mazzei have an interesting story that's more of a follow-up to the news yesterday that Governor Scott had signed the bill that bans local companies in Florida from doing business with Cuba and Syria.
Apparently Cuban elected officials in Miami like David Rivera think the governor sold them out by admitting what surely Attorney General Pam Bondi told him before he signed the bill — that it's not in the power of any state to create foreign policy, and thus would need approval from Congress and President Obama to have the full weight of law. The Herald's story has Rivera and other Cuban-Americans in Miami going from ecstasy to agony after he made such remarks while signing the bill. Maybe Scott would have been better off vetoing it, as the Florida and Greater Tampa Chambers of Commerce urged him to do?
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is reaching out to Scott today, hoping he'll agree to the mayor's request that Florida's NRA-inspired law that bans local governments in Florida from changing regulations regarding firearms be amended for the week when the Republican National Convention hits Tampa in late August.
And President Obama is returning from Afghanistan today. While the debate will continue about how quickly the U.S. should pull its troops out of that morass, there's very little discussion about our low level war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia through the use of drones — something that an Obama officially finally acknowledged on Monday.
