The Republican Party of Florida has wasted no time drawing attention to former chief financial officer candidate Allie Braswell's short-lived campaign. The latest jab at Braswell is called "8 Things That Lasted Longer Than Allie Braswell's CFO Campaign" and highlights, through animated GIF form, all the pop culture and political stories that had longer lives than the Orlando Democrat's bid for CFO.

On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott announced Unipharma, a pharmaceutical company, will move from Venezuela to Tamarac creating 100 jobs and $50 million in new investments. We are excited to announce that Unipharma has chosen to locate their pharmaceutical headquarters in Broward County, Scott said. Floridas unemployment rate is below the national average and weve created more than 333,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010. The jobs being created by Unipharma are another example that its working in Florida.

The tables have turned for short-lived chief financial officer candidate Allie Braswell, and now the Florida Democratic Party is backing away from supporting him in his campaign. We advised Mr. Braswell to slow down so he could better prepare, said spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party Joshua Karp. He was very eager to announce and its clear now he was unprepared for mounting this kind of campaign.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., is one of the top targets in Florida in 2014 for Republicans and conservatives. The freshman Democrat will be reminded of that on Tuesday when the Florida chapter of Americans for Prosperity will rally at Palm Beach State College before Murphy speaks there at a town hall event.

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is taking aim at the Florida Democrats after Allie Braswell dropped out of the state CFOs race on Monday, only four days after he entered. The RPOF slammed Florida Democrats Chairwoman Allison Tant for backing Braswell before looking at his personal finances which include three bankruptcies.

Over the weekend, former U.S. Rep. Allen West ripped into President Barack Obamas understanding of the Founding Fathers and the republican experiment.

Florida Senate President Pro Tempore Garrett Richter, R-Naples, was honored as a Champion of Small Business" by the National Coalition for Capital last week. Richter was honored for his work supporting the Florida New Markets tax credit.

Allie Braswell withdrew Monday from his campaign to be Florida's next chief financial officer, according to reports. Braswell, a Democrat, had been in the race for less than a week. Current CFO Jeff Atwater's camp did not sound too concerned about Braswell entering the race.

State officials are considering the idea of raising toll rates on I-95 from $1 to $1.50 due to the fact that too many drivers are willing to pay the current toll rate when congestion is at its worst on Florida highways. "What that tells us is that a lot of folks are accepting the express lanes concept and are using them more frequently," Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, executive director of Florida's Turnpike, told Sun Sentinel.

Americans overwhelmingly believe that the U.S. is failing to win the so-called war on drugs, but a new poll of likely American voters show they are much more divided on how much the U.S. should be spending on it. The new Rasmussen Reports poll showed only 4 percent of likely voters believe the U.S. is winning the war on drugs, while a whopping 82 percent disagree. Only 13 percent of voters are undecided.

The Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) spoke out on Florida's job growth for the month of July in a statement released Friday, praising Gov. Rick Scott for an increase in jobs for July.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., sent a letter to Amazon Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bezos Friday, urging the company to consider the Florida Glades as a location for an Amazon distribution center.

According to a poll released Friday, Americans are nearly split on whether marijuana should be legalized or not. The poll, conducted by Ramussen Reports, finds that 44 percent of likely U.S. voters believe marijuana should be legalized while 42 percent believe it should not.

According to an internal audit and other top-secret documents, the National Security Agency broke privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broader authority in 2008.

Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Thursday afternoon that on Tuesday the governor and Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, will tour the St. Lucie lock and dam on the St. Lucie River in Stuart -- scene of massive discharges of polluted fresh water, sent east from Lake Okeechobee. The discharges,called "lethal" by local residents, are widely blamed for what ails the now-lifeless St. Lucie Estuary.