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She ordered data reports sanitized, calling them "sales documents."</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dunlop was soon a laughingstock who became the target of unprecedented legislative hearings on her ouster. The "people of Virginia," INCLUDING the business community she courted in vain, finally revolted and successfully petitioned to overturn her dismantling of the state's regulatory agency.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b>Her disingenuous attempts to take credit for improvements brought by previous administrations' regulatory actions contradicted every scientific report issued at the time and since.</b> </font></span></font></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 680px; margin-bottom: 8px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000" style=""><span data-hook="review-body" class="a-size-base review-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She cherry-picks her data, such as touting one pollutant's decrease (due to previous administrations) while failing to mention other more serious increases on her watch. She was no conservative darling, spending record amounts of taxpayer dollars on endless, inefficient and fruitless feel-good studies and meetings toward "stakeholder voluntary consensus."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The subsequent </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">GOP </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">governor found her tenure so extreme as to campaign on a promise not to reappoint her.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A Christian evangelical, she responded by explaining to the press that the governor was "evil."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More recent scientific consensus continues to throw cold water on these old claims of hers, which she still milks on the lecture circuit to unquestioning nonscientific idealogues.</span></font></span></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">=</font></p></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BS morph energy with national security</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BY – <a href="http://sunshinestatenews.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">SUNSHINE STATE NEWS</a></font></strong></p><div class="teads-adCall" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Petroleum Institute (API) launched its “Explore Offshore” efforts on Wednesday, calling on expanding energy exploration efforts including in the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The national “Explore Offshore” campaign will be led by former U.S. Veterans Affairs Sec. Jim Nicholson, who led the Republican National Committee (RNC), and former</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">., who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2016 election cycle</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leading the “Explore Offshore” efforts in Florida are f<b>ormer Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and Dr. Miriam Ramirez who served in the Senate of Puerto Rico. Kottkamp served under then Gov. Charlie Crist who has opposed drilling in the Gulf, </b>even calling for a special legislative session on the issue. Crist held that special session after the massive oil spill in the Gulf in 2010. However, while Crist started drifting to the left and that and other issues to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 with no party affiliation and eventually join the Democrats, Kottkamp has remained a conservative Republican.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“As a native Puerto Rican and a volunteer to rebuild Puerto Rico from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, I know firsthand that we should not take for granted access to reliable energy,”</b> Ramirez said on Wednesday. “The Department of the Interior took a step in the right direction by proposing to open up additional areas of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to new exploration for oil and natural gas. Our neighbors in the Gulf of Mexico support thriving tourism industries all while developing offshore energy resources that create high-paying jobs to those states, provide much needed state revenue and economic investment, and deliver greater energy security to America.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“With over 20 million residents and 110 million annual visitors—the availability of affordable energy is critical to our quality of life in Florida,” Kottkamp said. “Access to new sources of domestic oil and natural gas is important to maintain or quality of life in the Sunshine State. As we consider exploration for new energy sources we must also be mindful Florida’s environment. We look forward to working with our local leaders to discuss ways to maintain our state’s natural beauty while at the same time expanding opportunities to keep our nation energy independent.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Okaloosa County Commissioner Wayne Harris is also co-chairing the Explore Florida Offshore campaign.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“I’ve had the great honor of serving our country in the military for 27 years, and serving my county as a commissioner,” Harris said. “My focus is on ensuring that future generations get to enjoy the same opportunities that I have, in a nation that is safe and secure</b>. A key to making that possible is putting in place energy policies that support the constant, reliable and affordable supply of energy our families and businesses will always need to grow and thrive. The more of that energy that comes from our own borders the better. It’s time we used recent advances in technology and science to find out exactly what energy resources lay in our waters, and how we can produce that energy in a responsible manner in the years ahead. That’s how we will make Florida and America more <b>energy secure.</b>”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Noting that oil and natural gas make up most electricity use at the state and national levels, Explore Offshore insisted that energy exploration in the Gulf and off the coast of Florida could lead to more than 56,000 new jobs by 2035 and added $1 billion annually to the state revenue and $2.6 billion in private development.</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">API: </font><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Explore Offshore [vs steyer CA mobilization on prop 23?]</b></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The American Petroleum Institute launched its Explore Offshore project in June 2018</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">seeking to convince</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Hispanic and black communities</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> to support the Trump administration’s proposed expansion of offshore drilling,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Reuters reported. [72]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“We want to build support in minority communities because the message that increasing the supply of affordable energy and good paying jobs will resonate,”</b> said Erik Milito, API’s director of Upstream and Industry Operations. [72]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Explore Offshore describes itself as a “national coalition that supports offshore energy exploration and production to help supply affordable energy for American consumers, small businesses, and manufacturers.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Explore Offshore’s mission is to unite supporters of offshore energy development and promote its benefits and its importance to our nation’s economy and energy security,” its website claims.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Coalition members include representatives from Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce</b> and a range of local affiliates are listed on its coalition page. [68], [70]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Reuters, Explore Offshore has partnered with a number of black and Hispanic business groups including the Virginia, Florida and North Carolina <b>Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and the Florida Black Chamber of Commerce </b>and South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce. [72]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Only one African-American man, South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce chairman Stephen Gilchrist, was involved in the group. Gilchrist reportedly “counts [Steve] Bannon as a friend.” While the group identifies itself as a “bipartisan coalition,” its sole Democrat is Jim Webb, who has praised “gallantry” of Confederate soldiers and defended “the venerable Robert E. Lee” according to a Politico story on Webb’s roots</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. [75], [73], [74]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 24, 2018</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Representatives from API and API‘s “Explore Offshore South Carolina” attended a luncheon hosted by the SC African American Chamber of Commerce to discuss “the Economic impacts and safety of Offshore Energy.” [71]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 16, 2018</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Explore Offshore, a “project of the American Petroleum Institute”<b> ran an ad campaign on Facebook promoting offshore drilling in Florida.</b> According to Facebook’s political ad archive, the ads were removed because they lacked a “Paid for by” label while including political content. [68], [69]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ad text read as follows:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Contrary to what the opposition wants you to believe, offshore energy exploration has occurred safely alongside marine life, commercial fishing, military activities, and tourism for decades in the Gulf.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Not only have these industries co-existed with energy production, but in many cases energy development has stimulated and bolstered investments, increased higher-paying jobs, and supported retail and tourism in coastal towns along the Gulf,’ <b>Cornelia Horner,</b> a spokeswoman with the American Petroleum Institute.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The choice is simple when you have the facts. Say yes to exploring our offshore resources in Florida.”</font></p><div><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: archivo_narrowregular, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" clear="clear" right="right" background-color="background-color">The Sunshine Way</h1><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: open_sansregular, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sunshine State News was born from a desire to cover a side of issues and stories that was absent in the news landscape, to fill the vacuum.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">At Sunshine State News, we believe this is the right time to focus on the inextricable relationship between politics and business in Florida and how it affects the success of our state. To that end, we strive to cut through the jargon and speak in a fresh, no-nonsense way to an audience of lawmakers, lobbyists and strategists, to Florida’s job creators and economy protectors, in fact to all Floridians who expect their leaders to make common-sense decisions and set lofty, yet attainable, goals.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sunshine State News fills a void – and that is our principal reason for being. We are the only news organization in Florida with an editorial board that believes free-market, less-government solutions will prove successful in addressing the problems challenging our state. Our news stories deal with facts, but we are more than happy to espouse our opinion in columns. We make it our job to tell the side of the stories that other outlets choose to ignore. We cover news statewide, putting the right amount of emphasis on untold stories and up-to-the-minute blogs, the ones that illuminate a rapidly changing economy, the clash of ideas and relationships at the state Capitol and political strategies playing out in all corners of Tallahassee and beyond. We aim to present our stories in a bright, attractive, reader-friendly package. And, we strive to avoid the stuffy conventions of traditional newspaper storytelling, instead writing compellingly in everyday language, using as much wit, personality and insight as we can muster.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sunshine State News welcomes reader participation. In fact, we encourage it by calling for comments on each story and blog and by inviting letters to the editor and op-ed articles. 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In addition, for three consecutive days the correction will be appear prominently on the upper righthand side of the Home page, with a link to the story.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: archivo_narrowregular, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" line-height="line-height" font-size="font-size" rem="rem"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">Meet Our Team</strong></h2><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: archivo_narrowregular, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" line-height="line-height" font-size="font-size" rem="rem"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">Nancy Smith - Executive Editor</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><img alt="Nancy Smith" title="Nancy Smith" height="100" width="100" class="media-element left file-preview" data-delta="1" src="https://sunshinestatenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/media_thumbnail/public/story_images/nancy_smith.jpg?itok=aGgpaduE" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left !important; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />A Connecticut native, Nancy Smith began her journalism career at The Daily Mirror and The Observer newspapers, both in London, England. She served as city editor, managing editor and associate editor at The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News for 28 years, retiring from Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in 2005. She was president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in 1993-1994. More impressive than her wall of awards, she found a way to be stepmother to seven children and still write one of the most compelling and controversial columns on the Treasure Coast. She brought her long-suffering husband Mick and the children back from England in 1974. "Some people go to London and bring back an ashtray," she says. "I came home with something a whole lot better." Contact Nancy Smith at <a href="mailto:nsmith@sunshinestatenews.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(46, 55, 137); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;">nsmith@sunshinestatenews.com</a> or (228) 282-2423.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">When not working, I...</strong> play blackjack, find any kind of live sports on television, or work on my novel and pretend people will actually read it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">In a previous life, I must've been...</strong> a cabaret singer, a suffragette or a criminal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">My favorite thing about SSN is...</strong> I have the freedom to say what I want to people who frame/decide policy for the greatest state in the U.S.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">The strangest experience I've had in an interview/as a journalist... </strong>in England in my 20s, I walked into a room for my interview, the editor helped me off with my coat and my dress was unzipped clear down the back.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">You'll find me cheering in the stands for... </strong>women and animals above all; then the Patriots, Red Sox, Braves, Arsenal, the Williams sisters -- and yes, even Tiger.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: archivo_narrowregular, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" line-height="line-height" font-size="font-size" rem="rem">Follow Nancy on Twitter: @NancyLBSmith </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> </p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; font-family: archivo_narrowregular, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" line-height="line-height" font-size="font-size" rem="rem"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; font-family: open_sansbold;">Ed Dean - Senior Editor</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><img height="117" width="80" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" src="https://sunshinestatenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_370w/public/ed-dean-headshot.jpg?itok=KvKiFhRU" alt="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left;" />As the top-rated radio show host focusing on Florida, Dean is no stranger to the Sunshine State’s politics<b>. Dean is a regular financial and political commentator on Newsmax TV and a contributor to Fox News 35 in Orlando. </b>In addition, he is a senior media analyst for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a Washington D.C. taxpayers advocacy group. Dean’s work has appeared in the Space Coast Daily and Sunshine State News. Before that, he covered politics for Straight Talk, the Brevard Reporter and WMEL Radio where he won awards for his coverage of the 2004 hurricane season. With his uncle John Buckley, a former Reagan consultant, Dean helped run BTV, a media and polling firm. In 2010, Dean was the featured MC for the “Spending Revolt” bus tour of Florida launched by Americans for Prosperity (AFP). Dean has also worked as a media consultant to politicians, campaigns and businesses groups at the state and national levels and sits on the media advisory board for the American Media Institute. Dean is the owner of the Florida Radio Network. The Ed Dean Radio Show is featured Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. around the state. Dean is a native Floridian, born on the east coast in Melbourne.</p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div>