The Washington Times, in an exclusive, reports that Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has four agencies booking him speaking engagements for which he receives between $8,000 to $20,000 plus first-class travel and accommodations.
Nice work, if you can get it — especially on [...]
Yesterday, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church reached an agreement to purchase the Brownsville Middle School. The church had an anonymous donor contribute $200,000 to met the asking price of Superintendent Malcolm Thomas of $1 million. The contribution prevented a possible confrontation between Thomas and the school board. Board member Linda Moultrie [...]
So now there’s a big hubbub about the congresswoman from Arizona who’s married to an astronaut.
Suddenly, everyone is emitting theatrical gasps, feigning shock that America just might have a House member who’s too closely tied to the space program.
If so, she’s just joining the club – one that’s filled [...]
From Monroe County: As your elected Republican Party state committeeman and committeewoman, it is our primary obligation to keep our REC precinct members informed of and aware of the needs, plans, activities and circumstances affecting the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF). In view of that obligation, we have much at [...]
In response to the daily calls for him to resign, Republican Party of Florida state chairman Jim Greer has this to say: ain't happenin'
In a letter to state committee members, Greer writes: "It is treason that for the sake of personal ambition that members of this party are airing dirty laundry."
He also [...]
December 21, 2009
State Committee Members,
I feel compelled to respond to the recent criticisms from some members of the state executive committee and calls for my resignation or removal.
First and foremost, to remove any doubt about my intentions, I will absolutely not resign my position.
At the December 2009 RPOF board meeting, [...]
Conventional wisdom says the likelihood of successfully taking on the speaker-designate of the Florida House — especially someone with the fund-raising abilities of Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park — ranges from poor to…you get the picture. But that’s not stopping Amy Mercado.
The Democrat and Hispanic activist has picked up the [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist says Florida has a good story to tell when it comes to K-12 education.
His evidence? State-by-state rankings from a reputable education publication.
"When I came in three years ago, according to Education Weekly, a well-respected national publication, it said that out of the [...]
Associated Industries of Florida has posted results of a new Zogby International poll showing that Floridians largely oppose Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to buy 73,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land for $536 million and then lease it back to the company.
Only 11 percent support it, with 86 percent are opposed. [...]
Associated Industries of Florida has posted results of a new Zogby International poll showing that Floridians largely oppose Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to buy 73,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land for $536 million and then lease it back to the company.
Only 11 percent support it, with 86 percent are opposed. [...]
Lots of good debate on the Senate health care “reform” bill. Here’s the important stuff I’ve read and come across, in reverse chronological order…
Down With Tyranny: Is the Conventional Wisdom on health care winners and losers going to have to change? (Does it matter?)
Jon Walker: The Insidious Myth [...]
The right-wing fringers continue to whine and complain about Florida Congressman Alan Grayson and his confrontational approach to dealing with Republicans. They call him a lunatic and the most paranoid amongst them claim that he is out to get them and the rest of [...] Democratic districts received nearly twice the amount of stimulus funds as GOP districts
This is your government, America. Thugs, bribery, coercion, payoffs… it’s like Mafia Wars on a national scale.
A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, [...]
One person who won't be coming to the defense of FL GOP chairman Jim Greer? His former executive assistant, Jaimee Colley, who told Buzz she spent a very unpleasant three months working for Greer in 2007. (The party said she was fired within her 90-day probationary period for poor performance).
"I was expecting [...]
By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE — Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, said she’s frustrated with a lack of action on the long-simmering casino gambling issue and is drafting her own proposal: the “Gaming Equalization Act.”
Bogdanoff, a ranking Republican in the House, said she’d like to see additional games (blackjack, craps, [...]
Hanukkah is drawing to a close, so it’s time to get down to the true, emotional baggage laden, nitty-gritty, consumerist, Christian, gimme-gimme-gimme heart of the happy holidays: Xmas. [...]
From the state’s Agency for Workforce Innovation:
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2009 is 11.5 percent. This represents 1,056,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,202,000. The unemployment rate is up 0.2 percentage point from the revised October rate of 11.3 percent, and up 4.3 percentage points from the [...]
ST. PETERSBURG -- If your family is supportive of your professional ambitions, you might get them an extra nice birthday gift, or maybe take them out for dinner.
Mayor Rick Baker, on the other hand, gifted his nearest and dearest with a day Thursday.
That's right, a day.
After two terms, Baker celebrated his final [...]
Members of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Club on Wednesday night were lamenting how personal the split between supporters of Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in their U.S. Senate race have become.
"It's sad," said young GOP-er Dywan Washington, a Rubio backer. Long-time acquaintances from the two camps have stopped [...]
Here’s a look at one of south Florida’s oldest hydrologic data sets.
