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Tough news for Adam Putnam continues to pour out of an inspector general’s report showing his staff botched review of hundreds of conceal carry permit applications. MORE IG WOES — “Putnam’s office mischaracterized interviews for concealed carry investigation, withheld records from media,” by POLITICO Florida’s Matt Dixon: Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s bid for governor has been dogged over the past month by an explosive report that his office didn’t fully review applications for hundreds of concealed carry gun permits. His department’s own investigators signed off on a final report looking at the issue that said every interview conducted with department staff was done under oath and recorded, but according to records reviewed by POLITICO, two key interviews were not. Read more. In May 2017, Eric Robinson — a Sarasota County School Board member and an accountant well known for representing Florida Republican political committees, including Curry’s — wired $119,797 from one of Curry’s main political committees, Build Something that Lasts, to four different addresses ranging from Wyoming and Ohio to Missouri. The payments were purportedly for catering and consulting services, paid to people with no known connection to Curry or anyone who runs his political operation.” Read more GOING GREEN — “Algae problems impacting election-year politics,” by Ocala Star Banner’s Zac Anderson: “Environmental protection quickly is becoming a big issue in the 2018 election as more toxic algae blooms slime estuaries, kill sea life and choke coastal Florida communities with foul air. But on the 2016 campaign trail, then-candidate Trump promised to nominate ‘pro-life’ justices to the Supreme Court in order to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all fifty states.” Read more ** Presented by AARP: There’s only one true deciding factor in this year’s elections: 50-plus voters. ENVIRO POLITICS — “Political muscle halts release of Lake O’s foul water. ‘I can tell you from where I sit … never has the outcry from the public within downtown been as high as it’s been over the last six months for us to do something about aggressive panhandling,’ Thomas Chatmon, executive director of the Downtown Development Board, testified at a recent Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.” Read more TOUGH JOURNEY — “Torres: Local teens make it to Port-au-Prince safely amid rioting and violence in capital,” by Florida Today’s John A. Torres: “The saving grace in traveling to a country like Haiti is that people are inherently good. Then find a major city in that state that also has this property.