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Jeb Bush never actually mentions Charlie Crist in this Tallahassee Democrat column , but he clearly is unimpressed with Charlie Crist's public opposition to FPL's requested rate increase. Seems to us the first time the former governor has publicly criticicized current leadership in ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
Jeb Bush
Internal Revenue Service
Christopher Smith
Winner of the Week : State Sen. Ted Deutch . It looks more and more like the first term Democratic legislator from Boca Raton will walk into the Congressional seat Robert Wexler is vacating to take a well-paid middle east policy advocate job. No serious rival has emerged, Wexler essentially ...
Congress
Christopher Smith
Robert Wexler
TAMPA — About 1,000 people lined up along Dale Mabry Highway for the chance to meet conservative pundit Glenn Beck, who visited a Borders bookstore as part of his whirlwind tour through Florida on Saturday to promote his latest book, Arguing with Idiots. His tour culminated with a visit to ...
Other
Glenn Beck
Palm Beach Post : Three of Crist's top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
Republican National Committee
Marco Rubio
Christopher Smith
The U.S. Senate just voted 60-39 to advance the health care bill, exposing deep division that will continue to play out during debate after Thanksgiving. Florida Senators reflected the party line vote. "This is a debate that we must have. It is a debate that we cannot afford not to ...
Congress
Bill Nelson
Health care
George LeMieux
Medicaid
Blanche Lincoln
WASHINGTON — George LeMieux has been a member of the U.S. Senate only two months but has managed to put the brakes on oil drilling legislation, a bill cutting funding for Radio Marti and is blocking President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Brazil. But what may seem remarkably ...
Congress
George LeMieux
Washington, D.C
Barack Obama
Brazil
Steve Bousquet: Seven years ago, Jim Smith got a coveted seat at the 'Noles head table with an appointment to the Florida State University board of trustees....But how does a guy get to stretch a four-year appointment into seven years? Aren't there other qualified people eager to serve?
The ...
Congress
Lamar Smith
Charlie Crist
Huffington Post
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 ...
Other
Internal Revenue Service
A little video slice of life of Gov. Charlie Crist small-talking with FSU coach Bobby Bowden.
-- Marc Caputo
Congress
Charlie Crist
What do Nintendo, the A-Team, MTV, and Microsoft Windows have in common?
That was the question posed to dozens of top Democratic fundraisers gathered last night at the lakefront Thonotosassa home of Alex Sink for a pep talk, campaign planning session. We're told the bundlers, ...
Congress
Christopher Smith
Emily's List
Sen. George LeMieux said he will vote against moving the health care bill to the floor, contending it is still an unfinished product. "It's out for six weeks in Harry Reid's conference room. We should certainly have (time) to evaluate the actual bill we're going to vote on before we move ...
Congress
Health care
George LeMieux
Harry Reid
Charlie Crist
Gov. Charlie Crist is in D.C. today raising money at Holland & Knight but insisted he was also focused on the continued dreary news about the Florida economy. "I just think it's so important to stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs," the U.S. Senate hopeful said, adding a pitch for the ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
Washington, D.C
George LeMieux
Marco Rubio
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 ...
Congress
Gallup Poll
Allen Boyd
Cigarettes sales are down 27 percent in Florida during the past four months, thanks to a new $1-a-pack tax designed to balance the budget and cut down on smoking. But despite the drop in sales, tobacco tax collections in Florida are high and holding steady. That's because state economists ...
Other
Medicaid
This shouldn't be much of a surprise, but Florida GOP leaders took no formal action at their closed door meeting in Lake County this afternoon - called to help iron out concerns many party leaders expressed about the state Chairman Jim Greer.
"It was productive, definitely. Just open ...
Congress
Republican National Committee
Christopher Smith
The liberal Daily Kos blog has released a 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 47 percent to 37 percent among likely Republican voters, according to the poll, which is bad for ...
Congress
Marco Rubio
Charlie Crist
Gallup Poll
Kendrick Meek
Republican National Committee
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 47-37 among likely Republican voters, according to the poll, which is bad for two reasons: A) ...
Congress
Marco Rubio
Charlie Crist
Gallup Poll
Kendrick Meek
Republican National Committee
Florida Trend: A U.S. Commerce Department spokeswoman told Florida Trend Thursday that the agency is frustrated over the delay in Frank Sanchez’s confirmation to be under secretary of international trade but rejected speculation that the holdup is related to anything other than ...
White House
Barney Frank
Barack Obama
FSU's presidential search committee just released a timeline for choosing longtime President T.K. Wetherell's successor, with the aim of sending a list of finalists to the Board of Trustees byu early December.
