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A bevy of Republican senators -- including Florida's George LeMieux -- took to the lectern ahead of today's Senate vote to allow debate on a sweeping health care bill. LeMieux said his office has fielded 950 calls on the matter in the last 6 days -- and at least 800 callers were opposed to the ...
Congress
George LeMieux
Health care
Medicaid
Richard Burr
Mitch McConnell
Thirty years of spying for Cuba will
send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he
and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United
States' longtime antagonist.
Walter Kendall Myers , 72 -- known to his Cuban handlers as ``Agent
202'' -- agreed to a ...
World
Cuba
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
United States
Barack Obama
Attorney General Bill McCollum says there is reason to appeal a
circuit court ruling dismissing part of the criminal case against
dethroned House Speaker Ray Sansom. A motion motion filed today
with the First District Court of Appeal, lays out several technical
arguments why the appeal is ...
Other
General David Petraeus
State Sen. Mike Bennett sent an angry letter to the state's five Public Service Commissioners this week, "appalled with the lack of oversight'' in the general counsel selection process when it let agency executive director Mary Bane "change the rules as you go in order to accommodate ...
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Internal Revenue Service
From Hotline OnCall:
FL Gov. Charlie Crist (R) -- under fire from conservatives for his famous embrace with Pres. Obama at a Feb. event in support of the stimulus package -- would not embrace ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) today, noting that Palin hasn't offered her endorsement of his FL SEN ...
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Charlie Crist
Sarah Palin
Timothy Geithner
Republican National Committee
A little video slice of life of Gov. Charlie Crist small-talking with FSU coach Bobby Bowden.
Congress
Charlie Crist
A source close to the case tells the Herald that Walter and Gwendolyn Myers -- accused of spying for Cuba for decades -- will plead guilty this afternoon in federal court.
Myers, 72, and his wife, have been held without bond since pleading not guilty last June to charges of wire fraud, ...
World
Cuba
Attending a fundraiser for his US Senate campaign at a law firm in downtown DC, Gov. Charlie Crist insisted his focus remains Florida and job creation -- as the state's unemployment rate edged up to 11.2 percent.
"I just think it's so important to stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs," Crist ...
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Charlie Crist
George LeMieux
Marco Rubio
Washington, D.C
Brazil
Attorney Bill Scherer filed his lawsuit today in Broward suing disgraced attorney Scott Rothstein , a few employees at the firm and TD Bank, among others. We are sifting through 300-some pages of documents, but here is our favorite Rothstein phrase so far:
"Ciao ciao, Money never sleeps ...
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Bud Day
A poll commissioned by Al Lawson's campaign shows him even with U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd in the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District.
In the head-to-head match up, Lawson took 34.9 percent to Boyd's 30.7 percent, a slight lead that fell within the 4.6 percent margin of error, the ...
Congress
Democratic National Committee
Allen Boyd
Two years ago, Charlie Crist was the rock star of the Republican Governors Association's annual meeting, having bucked the anti-GOP backlash in 2006 to win election in the nation's biggest battleground state. Crist was a populist success story who had garnered unprecedented support from black ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
Republican National Committee
Mark Sanford
John McCain
California Democrat Howard Berman said he's not particularly exercised over the spat between the ranking Republican on his House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting and retired Gen. Barry McCaffery .
McCaffrey took exception to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's aggressive questioning and suggested she not ...
Congress
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Foreign Policy
General David Petraeus
Howard Berman
Cuba
Resident rabblerouser Javier Manjarres said the Broward Republican Party's request that people RSVP to see Gov. Charlie Crist speak at its meeting on Monday is an effort to intimidate supporters (like himself) of former House Speaker Marco Rubio . "It's a scare tactic,'' said Manjarres, who ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
Marco Rubio
Republican National Committee
Cuba's celebrated and increasingly
brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez is emerging as a player in U.S.-Cuba
relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her
questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on
efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba. Sánchez's ...
World
Cuba
Barack Obama
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Raúl Castro
Fidel Castro
George LeMieux' s controversial effort to block the nomination of Thomas Shannon , the incoming US ambassador to Brazil, has gained him support from some fellow Florida lawmakers -- including Cape Coral Republican Connie Mack , who says he's got "serious concerns with the Obama ...
World
Cuba
Brazil
George LeMieux
Barack Obama
Connie Mack
Today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing was a highly-charged event -- but the real sparks flew when Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tussled with retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey .
McCaffrey raised the Miami Republican's hackles with his testimony that Cuba represents no risk to national ...
Congress
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Cuba
General David Petraeus
Stuart Rosenfeldt was busy today and asked Brittany Wallman , a reporter at the Sun-Sentinel -- our news partner -- to forward on this message to the Miami Herald: he is starting a new firm with Shawn Birken called Rosenfeldt and Birken.
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The liberal Daily Kos blog has released a new poll with some intriguing results in Florida's Republican U.S. Senate race between Gov. Charlie Crist and former House Speaker Marco Rubio. Crist leads by only 10 points, 47-37, among likely Republican voters, according to the poll, which is bad for ...
Congress
Marco Rubio
Charlie Crist
Gallup Poll
Republican National Committee
Barack Obama
CFO Alex Sink just announced she is promoting her deputy chief of staff Tammy Teston to serve as her chief of staff for the Department of Financial Services. The change will take effect January 2010, replacing current Chief of Staff Jim Cassady, who is leaving then to work on the Sink for ...
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U.S. Army
Bank of America
Georgia
If we have to blog one more lob in this week's tit-for-tat between Dems and Republicans on the whole unemployment compensation/federal stimulus deal, we might pull our hair out.
So we talked to Amy Baker, chief economist, to try and bring this partisan finger-pointing to a conclusion.
...
