edited by: Kay Day,
Florida Editor
The 2010 races are fueling more than fund-raisers and flurries of press releases. They’re also spawning eBay auctions. A quick round of searches on contenders for statewide office produced hits including:
-Five copies of the Sept. 7, 2009 National Review featuring GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio—$15.65 a-piece. One seller is… [...]
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 candidates who failed to meet the deadlines.''
"With [...]
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 candidates who failed to meet the deadlines.''
"With" [...]
US News rankings are biased in ways that hurt the U. Miami Law; here's one I would guess is biased in our favor: 2010 Super Lawyers U.S. Law School Rankings by Super Lawyers magazine. They say we are #20 [...]
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' [...]
Filched this awesome vid from Jihad Gene; it’s Friday – Let’s Dance!!!
When Africa gets hot, these troops of U.S. CENTCOM’s Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF)-Horn of Africa (HoA) command know how to regain their cultural perspective as they help to build nations.
[...]Pinellas County Democrats will have their Kennedy-King dinner on Feb. 27 at the Hilton hotel in the Carillon Park area of St. Petersburg.
No speakers have been confirmed, though CFO/governor's candidate Alex Sink is expected to be the speaker, chairman Ramsay McLauchlan said. She still has to confirm. The party is [...]
Pictures of the Week
From: Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down(photo: Brian Adams)
From: 100% of Your [...]
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 [...]
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, serving [...]
UPDATE: Florida's Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson will vote to move the bill forward. Listen to his floor speech
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 [...]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 said, suggesting [...]
The Tampa City Council on Thursday scheduled a vote on the police union contract for Dec. 2 at 1:30 p.m. Mayor Pam Iorio and the union have been at an impasse in negotiations since July, largely over raises, so the council has to settle the dispute. But even scheduling the date [...]
North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns, candidate for U.S. Senate, will join us today on No Days Off Radio. Listen, chat, and call in.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/no-days-off-radio
Call-in number – (347) 539-5919
Michael Shaw (BAGnewsNotes) will be on with “Pictures of the Week” which will be posted on this site soon.
Thanks,
Susan
Gov. Charlie Crist is in D.C. today raising money at Holland & Knight but insisted he is also focused on the dreadful state of the Florida economy, reinforced by a fresh report about 11.2 percent unemployment.
"I just think it's so important to stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs," the [...]
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 motherfucker :)
That's how Rothstein" [...]
John McCain doesn’t even have an opponent in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary, but a new poll shows the race would be tied if he did. Conservative polling firm Rasmussen asked likely Republican voters whether they would vote for McCain or J.D. Hayworth, a former Arizona [...]
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 results from [...]
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 results from [...]
A Miata Woody spotted somewhere up in Deerfield Beach...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 voters for a Republican running [...]
Had a very good time at the OII, had an especially fun seminar with some of the students.
Now I'm back, wading through huge stacks of things that piled up while I was away. No bloggy substance till I make a dent in the piles.
[...]This just in from the state Agency for Workforce Innovation: Florida’s unemployment rate inched up again last month to 11.2 percent, reflecting the fact the fact that 1.027 million Floridians were out of work.
That’s just a hair worse that September’s rate of 11.1 percent, but a full percentage… [...]
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 only questioned his national security creds -- he's the former commander [...]
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has endorsed fellow Republican Jack Latvala as Latvala seeks to return to the Florida Senate. Latvala faces Democrat Nina Hayden, a Pinellas School Board member, in the 2010 race.
"Jack Latvala has valuable experience that will benefit our region in Tallahassee. He accomplished many things for [...]
RPOF "in a fix"
Aaron Deslatte: "For decades, Floridians have essentially" [...]
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 said he plans to organize a" [...]
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha want a War Tax tacked on to our income tax to pay for the Afghan war, starting in 2011.
Happy group of old assholes.
“Regardless of whether [...]
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 accurately factored [...]
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 blog, Generación Y, posted Obama's responses to seven pointed [...]
