Sarah Palin is scheduled to make a stop in Miami early next month to help raise money for conservative candidates. Her trip, on Oct. 6 at the American Airlines Arena, is scheduled five days before President Barack Obama is due in Miami to try to bridge the enthusiasm gap among Democrats. From SFLaConservative.com: "SflaConservative is proudly partnering with The Liberty and Freedom Foundation to bring the incomparable Sarah Palin to the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami on Wednesday, Oct. 6.

In words that could have been scripted by Marco Rubio's campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headlined its latest news release: "Crist and Handpicked Chair Face Heat for Lavish 'Inappropriate' Personal Spending on Party Dime." While Crist scrambles to explain away the damning results of the Republican Party audit, Democratic Party leaders no longer appear interested in playing footsie with the guv. They're just kicking him in the rear.

The Values Voters Summit closed on Saturday with an upset in a straw poll for 2012 presidential hopefuls.

Senate President Jeff Atwater of North Palm Beach, the Republican CFO candidate, was thrilled to be endorsed by the NRA on Friday -- the day when America celebrates the passage of the Constitution. The NRA gave Atwater an A-plus for his record on Second Amendment issues. "On a day that celebrates the wisdom of the founders who established our nation and created our Constitution, it is a great honor to have my work to protect our freedoms acknowledged," said Atwater.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and Republican U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart are going to have a media event in Tallahassee on Monday to continue their fight against redistricting measures backed by FairDistrictsFlorida that will be on the November ballot. At the event, the two members of Congress will announce the kickoff of the No on Amendments 5 and 6 campaign. Both of them have been vocal opponents of the measures all throughout the year.

Incoming Democratic House Leader Ron Saunders of Key West turned his fire on someone from his party on Friday as he took aim at comments made by Eric Jotkoff, the communications director of the Florida Democratic Party, on the Florida Chamber of Commerce backing Republican Rick Scott for governor and Pam Bondi, the GOP nominee for attorney general.

Port St. Lucie residents are restless and the city's police officers are calling their union reps over a City Hall that appears to be reeling out of control. Officials in the city -- once one of the country's fastest-growing cities; now suffering among nation's highest levels of foreclosures and unemployment -- gave initial approval this week to a 17 percent increase in the property tax rate. While hundreds of taxpayers protest that move, the police chief is proposing to lay off 24 more officers next month.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had words of advice for establishment Republicans who've been beaten by tea party insurgents. "You shake the hand of the guy who defeats you," Huckabee said on Fox's "Neal Cavuto" show this afternoon. "There needs to be a level of grace." Were you listening, Bill McCollum? Rick Scott, who narrowly defeated McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, is still waiting for the attorney general to offer a hand of support.

On Friday, state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, released her tax returns for the last five years -- and called for Republican rival Rick Scott to do the same. Sink posted her tax returns-- and those of her husband attorney Bill McBride who was the Democratic candidate who lost to Gov. Jeb Bush back in 2002 -- on her site.

The two candidates running for the South Florida congressional seat that U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is vacating focused on jobs Friday -- and threw jabs at each other on the subject. Democrat Joe Garcia, a former Obama administration official who gave Diaz-Balart a spirited challenge in 2008, unveiled his jobs plan on Friday.

The campaign team of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott weighed in on Friday on the announcement earlier in the day that Floridas unemployment rose to 11.7 percent -- and looked to blame their Democratic opponent, state CFO Alex Sink.

A forensic audit of state Republican Party books found a pattern of lavish joint vacations taken by Gov. Charlie Crist and his handpicked former Party Chairman Jim Greer -- all charged to the RPOF. The cozy and costly jaunts are itemized in the audit released today. Meantime, Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio, who was alleged to have used a party American Express card for personal use, was cleared by auditors, as were incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon and outgoing Senate President Jeff Atwater.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate, weighed in on the announcement made earlier on Friday that Floridas unemployment rate grew to 11.7 percent in August.

Ken Connor, best known nationally for being the former chairman of the Family Research Council and remembered in Tallahassee for his stints in charge of Florida Right-to-Life and his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1994, offered his take on the recent controversy in Gainesville where Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center wanted to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by burning Qurans.

The Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI) announced on Friday that the unemployment rate rose yet again in Florida. For August the rate stood at 11.7 percent, an increase from July when it stood at 11.5 percent. Out of a pool of 9,229,000 Floridians, 1,084,000 remain without a job. From April and June, the rate dropped down from all-time record highs, but is starting to go up again.