Gov. Charlie Cristmade CNN's Situation Room tonight, looking to turn the conversation from what happened in New York -- where a conservative uprising ousted the GOP-annointed candidate from the race -- to New Jersey and Virginia, where Republicans claimed the governor's mansions.
"I don't know we if can really tell exactly'" [...]
Ray Sansom's lawyer today filed a motion that seeks to squash State Attorney Willie Meggs' appeal of a circuit decision throwing out part of the criminal charges against the former House speaker.
The motion with the First District Court of Appeal matches one previously filed by co-defendant Jay Odom.
"The lower court's order'" [...]
Public Counsel J.R. Kelly, the lawyer who represents the public before the Public Service Commission, told the House Energy and Utilities Committee today that he supports making the PSC more like a judicial body, instead of the quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial body it is.
"We should take a very strong look at commissioners acting" [...]
The Nation Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home.
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said adoption agencies are violating gun-owners rights by asking about firearms. She said any request about gun ownership from an agency connected with [...]
Former President Bill Clinton has headlined four fundraisers for U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek and is slated to attend a fifth reception in December. Now it's former Vice President Al Gore's turn. He's planning to come to the Westin Cypress Creek hotel in Fort Lauderdale on Nov. 14.
Tickets starts at $500.
[...]Gov. Charlie Crist has set a date for voters in northern Broward and southern Palm Beach counties to elect a successor for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler.
A primary will be held Feb. 2 and the general election will be April 6. Since the district is predominantly Democratic, the primary vote will [...]
With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed at the party establishment.
"We will not" [...]
If there's one group that can sway loads of votes in Florida with a single blast email, it's the NRA. And it just sent out this big, wet kiss of an email in support of Sen. Paula Dockery, running against fellow Bill McCollum for governor:
ALERT Paula Dockery, A+ NRA rated [...]
Sen. JD Alexander, clearly dissatisfied with the Department of Management Service's compliance with his months-long push for a comprehensive inventory of state real estate and buildings, is considering legislation that would tturn DMS into a Cabinet-level agency.
Alexander, the Senate's budget chief, said the change would "stabilize it and make it" [...]
Breakfasting this morning with reporters in DC, Mike Huckabee says his party's endorsement of Gov. Charlie Crist's Senate bid was "completely unacceptable.
"I don’t think the fact that Marco Rubio is challenging Charlie Crist is anything but positive," said the former Arkansas governor who has endorsed Rubio. "Charlie Crist went out with Barack Obama and said 'give me all the' [...]
Sen. Dan Gelber, the Miami Beach Democrat who's running for attorney general, used an appearance before Florida prosecutors Wednesday to push a series of legislative proposals aimed at restoring honesty in government. Gelber said historically, the Legislature has been "very cold" to the idea of cracking down on forms of corruption, but that [...]
A fake twitter account aimed at discrediting a prominent critic of state GOP leaders appears to have been linked back to a senior official at the Republican Party of Florida. Brevard County Republican Chairman Jason Steele says three months after discovering someone was tweeting inflammatory messages using his name and [...]
Despite rumors that Scott Rothstein had hidden vast sums of money overseas, one attorney says the money is in the U.S.
"He didn't take it out of the country,'' said Bill Scherer, who is representing 12 investors who lost a total around $80 million. "Maybe some but not a lot. We' [...]
The term-limited Miami mayor wasn't on the ballot, but voters chose an adversary, Tomás Regalado, as mayor on a 72 to 28 vote.
"Regalado, 62, a constant basher of past administrations who first swept to a city commission seat 13 years ago, parlayed a national anti-incumbent fervor and a sour economy to become'" [...]
Don Winstead, Gov. Charlie Crist's stimulus czar, briefed the Senate's budget committee Wednesday and said that, under federal formulas Florida can be created for creating jobs or helping employ 47,069 directly, indirectly or by way of some complicated "induced" formula due to the federal stimulus package.
That doesn't mean, though, that 47,000' [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner pens an op/ed in today's Miami Herald, arguing that the health plan Republicans are offering is better than the "1,990 pages of bureaucracy" House Dems have proposed.
"Speaker Pelosi's healthcare bill also delivers a crushing blow to small businesses in the form of burdensome mandates that" [...]
Surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren, former House Speaker and lobbyist John Thrasher was sworn in to the state Senate this morning -- taking the Jacksonville seat long held by Sen. Jim King, who died this summer of cancer.
King's current and former staffers and aides watched from the gallery [...]
Our erstwhile colleague, Peter Wallsten, writes in the Wall Street Journal today about the Charlie Crist-Marco Rubio battle in the U.S. Senate's Republican match-up. The story is here. Note this section:
Lesley Clark, Shannon Colavecchio, Marc Caputo, Beth Reinhard, Amy Sherman, John Frank, Mary Ellen Klas, Alex Leary, Lee Logan, Patricia Mazzei
