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quotes.push("<p>The Senate President presides over the Senate, acts as party leader, appoints committee members, and influences legislation in a number of ways. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#1>Learn more ></a>");

quotes.push("<p>Seeking the House leadership in the \"old days\" was an artful political process that unfolded slowly, often behind the scenes, as potential leaders made their plays for the position. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#2>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Born a slave in Virginia, Josiah Walls (R-Alachua), in 1868 became the first of several African Americans  to serve in the State Legislature (briefly) during Reconstruction. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#3>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Ranching may have been Florida's first industry, beginning with  breeds imported by the Spanish and English settlers. Ranchers were active in  politics early on, favoring open range policies. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#4>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>All but a handful of Florida's governors honed their political skills in the State Legislature. Many served in both houses...  <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#5>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>The Florida Constitution sets forth the individual rights of  citizens as well as creating state and local offices and apportioning power among them. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#6>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Before reapportionment, the approximately 15 percent of  Floridians living north of Ocala elected more than half of the state's lawmakers. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#7>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>The struggle for fair representation was long and difficult.  It took the U.S. Supreme Court to bring fair representation to state  legislatures. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#8>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Traditional ceremonies such as the swearing in of members,  memorials, daily devotions, and moments of silent prayer honor religious  practice while respecting religious freedom. <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#9>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Florida's Cuban and Latin American trade ties go back to the time of its Spanish domination. Still, not until the 1980s was there significant Hispanic-American representation in the Legislature...  <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#10>Learn more ></a></p>");

quotes.push("<p>Legislative service has proved an intensive training ground for many who later became officers of the state at the Cabinet level.  <a class=factlink href=facts.cfm#11>Learn more ></a></p>");

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