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Florida Senate Leader Surprises Republicans.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003

By John Kennedy, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 17--TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- After their devastating defeat in last fall's elections, Florida Democrats are now being kept alive by an unlikely ally: the Senate's most powerful Republican.

Jim King, elected president of the Florida Senate by fellow Republicans, has surprisingly emerged as a tough opponent to GOP Gov. Jeb Bush and House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City. Bush and Byrd are pushing legislation that punishes those who steered millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Democrat Bill McBride in the governor's race.

"Without King, you could easily have a trifecta of conservative Republican leaders in Florida that would be able to continue...

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