Bernie DeCastro, the Constitution Party candidate in the U.S. Senate race, is questioning former House Speaker Marco Rubios conservative credentials. Rubio is currently running as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. Marco Rubio is not a conservative, wrote DeCastro in response to suggestions that he pull out of the race and not split the conservative vote. Nor is he a person willing to take on the liberal Obama agenda, as he so often says. But this is not my opinion. This accusation is based on facts and Mr. Rubios own record.

State CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke in Delray Beach on Tuesday about the ties between energy and Floridas struggling economy -- and trumpeted some new endorsements. Taking a page from Bud Chiles, who had run for governor without party affiliation until pulling out of the race last week to endorse Sink, the CFO pushed alternative energies as a future cornerstone for the Sunshine States economy.

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race, launched a new television commercial on Tuesday morning, trying to offer a stark contrast between his record and that of Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation. For Meek to get back in the race, he needs to keep Democrats in his column--and away from Crist.

A Gainesville minister plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, and he's taking heat for it from the U.S. military. Pastor Terry Jones, head of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center, said, "We must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats."

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says a floating museum in the Big Apple has the "inside track" to land a retired space shuttle. Schumer may be full of hot air -- he often is -- but insofar as NASA's selection process gets politicized, it's impossible to count his home state out.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Kendrick Meek described himself to an MSNBC "Morning Joe" audience Tuesday morning as a true David against two Goliaths. Apart from highlighting the differences between himself and his opponents, Republican opponent Marco Rubio and independent Gov. Charlie Crist, he re-established his I'm-a-nice-guy credentials by repeating sympathy for Rubio, whose father died during the weekend. There were no hardball questions.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott took aim at President Barack Obama on Monday for calling for $50 billion in new federal spending on infrastructure to put more Americans back to work -- and linked his Democratic rival, state CFO Alex Sink, to the increasingly unpopular administration.

Another holiday, another chance for politicians to highlight their position on the issues. With Labor Day upon us, politicians from both parties are talking about their plans to get Floridians back to work.

An internal poll conducted for Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, shows him leading the 8th Congressional District field with 40 percent of the vote. Republican nominee Daniel Webster had 27 percent while "others" pulled 23 percent in the survey. Eleven percent were undecided. The "others" included Florida TEA Party's Peg Dunmire, No Party Affiliation candidate George Metcalfe, and Florida Whig Party hopeful Steve Gerritzen, who is running as a write-in.

Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Wayne Smith told Sunshine State News he's off the November ballot because the state Division of Elections "lost my paperwork. "I submitted three pieces of paper -- a lieutenant governor statement (naming Libertarian Party Chairman J.J. McCurry), a notarized financial disclosure plus my party loyalty oath -- and now (state officials) say they only have the latter two," Smith said. Smith said he hand-delivered the documents to Tallahassee, as he did when he ran as a No Party Affiliation gubernatorial candidate in 2006.

Richard Winger, one of the nations leading experts on third-party and independent candidates, is reporting at Ballot Access News that John Wayne Smith, the Libertarian candidate for governor, will not be on the ballot come November. The secretary of state removed Smith due to incomplete paperwork. Smith was to have been the first gubernatorial candidate running on the Libertarian line in Floridas history.

U.S Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the U..S Senate race, was supposed to debate former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate, on Sunday mornings Meet the Press on NBC. Rubio pulled out last week due to his ailing father, who has since passed away.

Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Oviedo, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas in November, offered her take on the news released on Friday that unemployment grew across the nation in August. "Now is the time that we return America back to the people," said Adams late on Friday."Our country cannot afford new taxes and continued out-of-control spending.The government should get out of the way of business by reducing taxes and regulations on small businesses, the main economic driver of job growth in America."

It keeps turning up, that maybe not-so-porny video of state Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, sitting at his seat on the Florida Senate floor, checking out a line of lusty, barely clad beach babes on his computer. What a punctuation mark it put on the last day of the 2010 session of the Legislature.