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blogs.tampabay.com - 10/31/2009
Report: Dockery will run for governor
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Sen. Paula Dockery's hometown newspaper, The Ledger of Lakeland, quoting "multiple Republican sources," is reporting that she will enter the race for governor next week. The paper didn't talk to Dockery, who said on her Facebook page that she was attending a funeral ...

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Daily Kos:  Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/30/09

Swing State Project:  SSP Daily Digest: 11/2

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Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/30/09
Daily Kos — ... It looks like Republican state Attorney General Bill McCollum does not have an unimpeded path to the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Florida, after all. State Senator Paula Dockery, as has long been rumored, is apparently poised to jump into the race. Democratic state CFO Alex Sink is still the presumptive nominee for the blue team. ...

SSP Daily Digest: 11/2
Swing State Project — ... : That aforementioned St. Petersburg Times poll also looked at the governor's race, and they gave Democratic CFO Alex Sink her first lead in a while; she's up a single point on GOP AG Bill McCollum, 38-37. More trouble for McCollum: state Senator Paula Dockery, as threatened, now appears to be jumping into the Republican primary, which had been painstakingly cleared for him. ...

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