From the St. Augustine Record:

The state House’s acting speaker is a low-key, little-known but well-liked conservative Republican real estate broker from north-central Florida.

Rep. Larry Cretul prefers to work behind the scenes and likes to ride motorcycles, friends and colleagues say.

Cretul, 61, of Ocala, will lead the chamber at least until a series of investigations into Speaker Ray Sansom’s connections to a state college are resolved. Northwest Florida State College in Niceville gave Sansom an unadvertised, $110,000-a-year job on the day he became speaker in November.

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You’ve got a blog or two weighing in on the new GOP speaker.  The Miami Herald checks in with an exclusive quote,  the Florida Chamber Foundation talks about the order that will emerge from this change, and of course there was this interesting little tidbit from the Tampa Bay Buzz…