With a report that traces of oil surfaced off the coast of Louisiana this past weekend, Republican attorney general candidate Pam Bondi weighed in on the matter.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition wants gubernatorial candidates Rick Scott and Alex Sink to pledge their opposition to any law similar to the one recently passed in Arizona allowing law enforcement officers to detain illegal immigrants during routine traffic stops. A petition, signed by a slough of immigrant advocate groups, as well as the Florida Catholic Conference, the NAACP and the ACLU, will be delivered to the Miami offices of each candidate Wednesday.

Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack targeted Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Tuesday -- and ripped into the Obama administration for not standing up to him.

Mack, the ranking Republican on the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, noted that Chavez was continuing a world tour to push his countrys oil exportation.

Republican congressional candidate Mike Prendergast, who is taking on Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, received a boost on Tuesday in his bid to knock off the incumbent when he was endorsed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and is considering making another attempt in 2012, backed Prendergast through HuckPAC.

With rising national Democratic star U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz continuing to ignore her, Republican candidate Karen Harrington ripped into the incumbent for backing earmarked projects.

Crushing his rivals in the polls, leading both Gov. Charlie Crist who is running with no party affiliation and Democratic nominee U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek by double digits, former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate, unveiled a two-minute ad where he makes his closing pitch. Rubio talks about the unique nature of America and ignores his rivals in the spot.

The Florida Optometric Association apparently had its eyes on the attorney generals race -- the group announced on Tuesday that they were backing Republican candidate Pam Bondi for the position over Democratic rival Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach.

Republican Mike Prendergast, a retired Army officer, hammered Democratic rival U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor on Tuesday, attempting to link her to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

When Representative Nancy Pelosi gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be no new deficit spending, wrote Prendergast to supporters. Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Castor and Pelosi equal more spending for them and less take home pay for us. Let's send them packing!

Democratic attorney general candidate Sen. Dan Gelbers campaign team continued to attack Republican rival Pam Bondi on Tuesday for connections to national Republicans. Continuing their line of attack concerning Bondi being aided by the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), the Gelber team took aim at the RSLCs connections to Karl Rove, the strategist who was affiliated with George W. Bush.

Florida TaxWatch released a look at gubernatorial candidates Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee, and Republican Rick Scott on Tuesday, offering voters a side by side comparison of the two rivals on education in what is shaping to be one of the closest races in memory.