Interesting tactic from the Florida Democratic Party--theyre using the power of the internet to research into the criminal case being brought against former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer. This is the first time in Florida that a political party has combined new media efforts with crowd sourcing methods to augment our work to hold Republicans accountable, continuing the Florida Democratic Partys innovative use of the internet as an organizing tool, said Democratic spokesman Eric Jotkoff.

A day after backing Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp for attorney general, conservative leader John Stemberger, president and general counsel of the Florida Family Policy Council, endorsed Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican gubernatorial nomination over health care executive Rick Scott.

The U.S. Department of Labor is promising $7 million for the training and placement of workers in Florida who lost their jobs due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The money is part of an allotment of $27 million given to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, the four Gulf states seeing their tourism industries take a hit from the spill.

The Yes on 9 Campaign group, supporting the proposed constitutional amendment allowing Floridians to opt out of new federal health care laws backed by President Barack Obama, offered strong words of praise to Attorney General Bill McCollum for opposing a lawsuit seeking to remove the proposed amendment from the November ballot. McCollum is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, overshadowed in the Democratic primary in theU.S. Senate raceby the bitter battle between U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire financier Jeff Greene, is trying to get back into the race by focusing on renewable energy and offering a vision for a new economy.

Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, says his decision to quit statewide law firm Akerman Senterfitt had nothing to do with the firm's decision to represent BP. "My professional move was unrelated to Dan Gelber's situation," he told Sunshine State News, referring to the Democratic senator's decision to resign from the law firm Thursday because BP is its client. "I'm reconnecting with my litigation career." Negron says he quit the firm two weeks ago to join business law firm Gunster, which has offices in West Palm Beach and Stuart.

Grocery giants are more used to competing than cooperating, but these are extraordinary times for their large customer base along the beleaguered Gulf Coast.

Republicans Karen Harrington, Robert Lowry and Donna Milo have launched bids to knock off U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- hoping to tap into the anti-incumbent mood shaping the national political landscape. They are also throwing a few jabs at the incumbent, saying she is vulnerable come November. Its not just an anti-incumbent mood for Debbie, said Milo. Her base is moving away from her.

At a meeting of Gov. Charlie Crist's Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Wednesday, the president and CEO of the state's public-private marketing corporation lamented that the state was running out of advertising money from BP. Florida was given $25 million by BP last month to fund local and state advertising campaigns meant to combat the negative press caused by the oil spill, but Chris Thompson of Visit Florida told BP that allotment of cash is not enough. Thompson, speaking at the Pensacola meeting, told the public face of BP that the tourism industry needs more.

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's the Supersonic Green Machine. In a quest for the next generation of high-speed transport, NASA and Lockheed-Martin are eyeing plans for an inverted-V engine designed to reduce, or eliminate, sonic booms. Glimpse the futuristic jet design here.

The Arab American Institute is criticizing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene for insensitive remarks on Muslims made in an article last week that appeared in the Washington Post.

The tourism industries in states impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will need $500 million more from BP for a marketing campaign to counter bad perceptions created by the spill, USA Today reports.

Tea Partiers aren't the only ones on edge in the 8th Congressional District. As seven Republicans try to knock off Rep. Alan Grayson, a reader of our story about the contest offered this insight about one of the GOP hopefuls: "Bruce O'Donoghue has about as much to do with Tea Parties as Hitler had with the Jewish Defense League." We're not sure what prompted that rhetorical outburst, since O'Donoghue was quoted as criticizing the TEA tactics.

Former Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Holly Benson, currently in a tight battle for the Republican attorney general nomination, weighed in on the Supreme Court decision on Monday, striking down local gun-control laws. This decision by the Supreme Court is a monumental victory for freedom and the Second Amendment in America, said Benson. The highest court in the land has reaffirmed that our Second Amendment rights are absolute, and that government interference of these rights, at any level, will not be tolerated.

Jeff Greene scored an endorsement in the backyard of his chief rival for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The Liberty City Democratic Network Club backed Greene over U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.