U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-SD, announced on Tuesday he was backing former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., for the Republican presidential nomination. Rounds, who served two terms as governor of South Dakota, becomes the second senator to back Huckabee, joining U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.
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U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., announced on Tuesday he was backing U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio has said he will not seek a second term in 2016.
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Florida Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, said on Tuesday she would hold off on making a decision for running for mayor of Hollywood until the end of the legislative session in March.
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The Florida Department of Education has come back with the results of the summer-long independent validity test of the Florida Standards Assessment, and the final verdict: the test is verified valid.
Running for the Democratic nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., announced on Monday that he was behind President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran over that nation’s nuclear program and drew fire from the right.
Another poll shows Gov. Rick Scott in better shape with Florida voters. Last week, Quinnipiac released a poll showing Scott above water with 45 percent of voters approving of him and 44 percent of voters disapproving of him, the first time in more than four years he was right side up in a Q-poll.
Another poll shows Gov. Rick Scott in better shape with Florida voters.
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Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to expand the use of solar energy say it might be four years before they would again seek voter approval if the current ballot language is rejected by the Florida Supreme Court.
But Leaders of Floridians for Solar Choice, which is seeking to allow businesses to generate and sell small amounts of solar power to customers on the same or neighboring properties, expressed confidence during a media conference Monday that the state's top court will sign off on the proposed amendment for the November 2016 ballot.
In my last column, I looked at the possibility of two impossible things -- impossible things in the sense used by Alice and the Red Queen -- happening in the already turbulent 2016 presidential cycle. Here I'll look at another: the possibility that the partisan division lines that have endured with little change for two decades might suddenly shift and change.
