Step aside Gov. Charlie Crist. You've got some double-talking company** in the Republican race for U.S. Senate: Marco Rubio.
"I have never voted for a tax increase," Rubio says on his campaign Web site.
Not so, says the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact checker:
From 2000 to 2008 -- the years Rubio was in' [...]
The state's response: no thanks. Keep your money.
Kottkamp, a Republican candidate for attorney general, [...]
Is Senator Nelson trying to appeal to both sides of the aisle? He will garner Democratic support with an anti-drilling stance but surely his negative views on Obama’s efforts to revive our struggling national economy will broaden his appeal to a more conservative voter?
Unlike the Republican Party, the Democratic Party [...]
State Sen. Paula Dockery, who announced a couple of weeks ago that she’s running for governor, is kicking off the opening of her Lakeland campaign headquarters on Monday with an open house.
The campaign office for the Republican is at 1037 South Florida Ave., Suite No. 130, in in Lakeland’s… [...]
She's not an official candidate for state attorney general, but Pam Bondi gave a sense of what she might be like on the campaign trail at a meeting of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Tuesday night. She spoke to about 20 people -- including state house candidates Irene Guy and [...]
She's not an official candidate for state attorney general, but Pam Bondi gave a sense of what she might be like on the campaign trail at a meeting of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans Tuesday night. She spoke to about 20 people -- including state house candidates Irene Guy and [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist bragged the other night that all his chiefs of staff have been from Broward County, forming a "Broward County connection."
Accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was from there as well. And he gave loads of money to Crist and the Republican party. Did George LeMieux (now [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist bragged the other night that all his chiefs of staff have been from Broward County, forming a "Broward County connection."
Accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was from there as well. And he gave loads of money to Crist and the Republican party. Did George LeMieux (now a Sen.) [...]
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The Rubio camp sent out this transcript of Rush Limbaugh on the Republican Senate race:
“I like Rubio. …
The Rubio camp sent out this transcript of Rush Limbaugh on the Republican Senate race:
“I like Rubio. …
“In the Republican Party particularly, there is a fatigue with RINOs and moderate Republicans. …
“Republicans, the only chance they ever have of winning national elections is to go conservative. And I think that's' [...]
Collier Merrill hosted a successful fundraiser for Holly Benson last night at The Fish House. Benson is running for the Republican nomination for Florida Attorney General. She is the first Panhandle native to run for a statewide office since Skip Hunter ran for Insurance Commissioner in 1994. She was introduced [...]
During his first visit to South Florida since his appointment to the U.S. Senate, Republican George LeMieux received gushing praise from the hometown congressmen, U.S. Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart.
They were so complimentary you'd think LeMieux planned to be on the ballot in 2010 instead of his former boss,' [...]
Her name is Anna Alexopoulos, and today was her first day as field director for Charlie Crist's Senate campaign in Broward and Palm Beach counties. She hit the ground running by making sure Crist had a good turnout (about 300 people) at tonight's Broward Republican Party meeting.
Alexopoulos is 24 years old, [...]
In a speech to about 300 Broward Republican activists tonight, Gov. Charlie Crist said he agreed with Sen. George LeMieux's vote Saturday to block the Democrat-backed health care legislation. Republicans failed to stop the Senate from taking up the bill for debate.
Crist said he agreed with his political appointee and former chief' [...]
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When does Al Jones -- Gov. Charlie Crist's pick today for a Broward County Commission seat -- need to move to the district?
That could lead to a debate. Jones lives in Dania Beach which isn't in the district that spans Fort Lauderdale to Pompano Beach. Republican officials are under the' [...]
So the Alex Sink for Governor campaign unearthed a photo of Republican opponent Bill McCollum smiling with accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein (more here). Now McCollum's folks have dredged up their own photo of Sink and Rothstein. Here it is.
Neither the Sink or McCollum photos [...]
In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.
One of the party’s fastest-rising stars, he reached a leadership position in Congress three years ago at age 31. He comes from a prominent Polk County citrus and cattle ranching family, and… [...]
Sounding engaged and no longer a bit dismissive of the threat from former House Speaker Marco Rubio in the Republican U.S. Senate race**, Gov. Charlie Crist suggested the Miami Republican has escaped significant scrutiny and has been able to campaign in a vacuum. But not for long.
"What is said sometimes" [...]
TAMPA -- Republican Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. made an odd use of his campaign stationery in his capacity as a newly appointed member of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority, a governmental agency. Adams is once again campaigning for the District 11 House seat held by Democrat Kathy Castor.
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TAMPA -- Republican Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. recently earned an appointment to the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority and has quickly asserted himself.
As a member of the authority, which oversees Tampa General Hospital's lease of government land on Davis Islands, he's been asking questions about the hospital's hiring of minority contractors. Leadership [...]
TAMPA -- Republican Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. recently earned an appointment to the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority and has quickly asserted himself.
As a member of the authority, which oversees Tampa General Hospital's lease of government land on Davis Islands, he's been asking questions about the hospital's hiring of minority contractors. Leadership [...]
Report: 10 States Face Looming Budget Disaster
Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin join California as those most at risk of fiscal calamity, according to the report by the Pew Center on the States.
Double-digit budget gaps, rising unemployment, high home foreclosure rates and built-in [...]
Lori Edwards' campaign for Florida's 12th Congressional district released a poll today boasting she's got the lead "despite the challenging political environment for Democrats going into 2010."
In a recent survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Edwards holds a 4-point edge over Republican challenger Dennis Ross, 46 – 42 percent. [...]
It’s hard to overemphasize to the other 49 states the impact the smallest gestures toward Cuba have on politics in Florida. Case in point: Florida’s new Republican senator, George LeMieux, is blocking the appointment of an Obama nominee as ambassador to Brazil because of a stand [...]
