Sierra Club president Michael Brune said last week that he stopped his organization's acceptance of donations from a gas-drilling company when he found out about them. Turns out that his chronology might be off. "In 2010, soon after I became the organization's executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country's largest natural gas companies," Brune wrote in his "Coming Clean" blog.

A bill that would let school districts put cameras on school buses with the hope of getting pictures of drivers who don't observe the school bus stop signs when children are boarding will be heard by the Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday, the News Service of Florida reports. Senate Bill 250 is sponsored by Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens. The committee also hears a combined version of two bills -- SB 590 and SB 568 -- dealing with red light cameras.

Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs late on Monday. The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.

Scott D. Makar, Floridas solicitor general, has been named by Gov. Rick Scott to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of 1st District Court of Appeal Judge Paul Hawkes. Scotts extensive knowledge of the law and experience in appellate courts is widely known and respected, Gov. Scott stated in a release. I am confident he will consider every case presented to the appellate court in a thorough and fair manner.

Gary Johnson and other presidential hopefuls will participate in a Libertarian Party debate Saturday afternoon in Orlando. Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, who dropped his bid for the Republican nomination last month, will be joined on the debate stage by party activist Lee Wrights, Kiowa Nation member and Afghan war veteran R.J. Harris, author and documentary filmmaker Bill Still, former Texas Libertarian Party chair Roger Gary, entrepreneur Leroy Saunders and Carl Person.

Floridas Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will introduce a statewide program on Thursday designed to help local financial institutions and community partners assist residents to access mainstream financial services and financial education.

Calling Vice President Biden's appearance at Florida State University on Monday a taxpayer-funded campaign stop, Republican National Committee spokesman Matt Connelly released the following statement in response to Bidens promoting President Barack Obama's college affordability plan.

Former Gov. Pete Wilson of California announced on Monday he is backing Mitt Romney for president. Wilson ran a brief and very unsuccessful bid for the Republican primary nomination himself during the 1996 election cycle but he did not even make it to Iowa. Romney named Wilson his honorary chairman in California.

Florida's crackdown on pill mills has been working, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reported. A study released by the DEA concluded that since legislators approved a law at the end of the 2011 session that tightened reporting requirements for the prescription-drug monitoring database and increased penalties for doctors who overprescribe narcotics, the purchase of oxycodone has rapidly declined in Florida.

Members of the Florida Cabinet are reportedly going to revive an old Florida State Fair tradition by taking a trip down the Giant Slide located on the midway to mark the opening of the 2012 fair in Tampa on Thursday. Cabinet members who will take the plunge are not identified.

Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner -- who dropped out of the Republican U.S. Senate primary last week to run for Congress -- has garnered the attention of national party leaders, including U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

As Gov. Rick Scott might say: Jobs, jobs, jobs. (Do you think Ann hears that as much as the rest of us do? Probably even more. He's got to practice, after all.)

Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, released the following statement on Saturday regarding approaching the midpoint of the 90-day, 2012 legislative session: "As we approach the midpoint of the 2012 legislative session, I want to pause and reflect on the accomplishments that we have already made and look ahead to the remaining five weeks of the session.

The Christian Family Coalition is calling on the Florida House to follow the Senate, which approved SB 98 last week -- in a 31-8 vote -- that would let individual school boards across Florida decide if students could conduct inspirational messages at mandatory school functions. The CFC issued the following statement:

The Federal Elections Commission has qualified presidential hopeful Buddy Roemer for federal matching funds. Roemer, a former congressman and governor of Louisiana, is running for the Republican presidential nomination but has also opened the door to running for the Americans Elect nomination. Carlos Sierra, Roemers campaign manager, weighed in on the matter, calling it a proud day for our campaign, because we earned a small recognition of our hard work and transparency. The Roemer campaign refuses to accept campaign contributions of more than $100.