Vice President Joe Biden brings his "middle-class tour" to Florida today. Scheduled to appear in Coconut Creek, Biden plans to speak out on economic issues and attack Republicans. Advance excerpts from his prepared remarks quote Biden as saying of Republicans:

Gov. Rick Scott will meet with the Gainesville Sun editorial board this afternoon. The sit-down, scheduled for one hour, is set to begin at 3 p.m.

A poll released Friday from Public Policy Polling, a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, shows Rick Santorum with an impressive lead in Louisiana which holds its Republican presidential primary on Saturday.

As the national uproar swelled over the failure of Sanford police to arrest the man who shot and killed an unarmed teenager, Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday announced a new attorney is taking over the state investigation. Assistant State Attorney Angela B. Corey will replace Norman Wolfinger, who was viewed by some lawmakers -- particularly Sens. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, and Chris Smith, D-Oakland Park --as having ties too close to the Sanford police to investigate the case.

U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, posted a statement on his Facebook page saying that if all that has been reported is accurate in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Sanford police chief should be relieved of his duties and gunman George Zimmerman should have beenheld in custody.

All of a sudden embattled Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher has competition in the coming election. You just knew it was going to happen. Delray Beach Mayor Woodie McDuffie only waited three days to jump on Bucher's latest embarrassing clunker and declare himself better suited for an important public-service job that requires precision and competence. Count him in as a candidate for Palm Beach County supervisor of elections.

One day after a majority of the Sanford City Council voted for a measure expressing no confidence in him," Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced he is temporarily resigning over his handling of the shooting death of a black teenager by a white man.

Political strategist Dick Morris is insisting that Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has no chance of winning a third term in November. Congressman Connie Mack, the likely challenger to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, currently leads by 43-36 according to Rasmussens poll of March 13 ... Morris wrote. With Nelson so far under 50 percent, he is meat.

Could increased Internet access result in a Cuban Spring? Floridas Sen. Marco Rubio thinks so. And he thinks thats why its not going to come to the island as long as the Castro regime lasts. The keynote speaker at a panel discussion Wednesday hosted by the Heritage Foundation and Googles think tank, Google Ideas, Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles, predicted that greater access to technology would lead to greater longing for freedom in the countrys population -- a possibility the dictatorship fears.

Florida East Coast Industries says it is developing a privately owned and operated passenger rail line to connect South Florida and Orlando by 2014. The All Aboard Florida project would use 200 miles of existing Florida East Coast Railway freight tracks between Miami and Cocoa, and build 40 miles of new track to complete the route to Orlando. Eventually the system could be expanded with connections to Tampa and Jacksonville, the company said.

Florida East Coast Industries has announced a $1 billion project to create a Miami-to-Orlando passenger train service by 2014 called "All Aboard Florida." The rail line would go from Miami to Cocoa along the FEC right-of-way that skirts the east coast of Florida and last supported passenger rail service in 1968, then travels west on new tracks to Orlando, a release from Florida East Coast Industries stated.

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, running in the Republican primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November, came out swinging on Thursday as he looked to make the Keystone XL Pipeline an issue. Mack, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, took aim at Nelson and President Barack Obama on the issue.

Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, withdrew an amendment to the Senates redistricting effort that sought a fourth Hispanic seat in Southeast Florida -- a seat now held by Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Miami, that de la Portilla's brother Alex has eyed for a return to the Legislature. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla initially proposed the amendment during the Senate Reapportionment Committee meeting earlier in the week.

The gloves are coming off as Newt Gingrich is taking aim at Mitt Romney in a new ad. Using a quote from Romney strategist Eric Fehrnstrom, the Gingrich team looks to show Romney is quick to change his views. The ad shows clips of Romney making statements contradicting each other. The ad can be found here and Gingrich has run an entire website based on the attack.

With the team moving into a new $515 million ballpark this year, the value of the Miami Marlins has grown 25 percent in the past year, according to Forbes magazine. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays were one of two teams to decline in value. In its latest Business of Baseball, the magazine reported that the average team value rose by 16 percent in the past year, with the average value standing at $605 million. Both of Floridas clubs were below the average.