You say it's not politics and it's not business, so why are we blogging it here in Sunshine State News? Because the World Cup and America's hopes on soccer's biggest stage are all politics, all business and far more. So, here it is, released by FOX Sports Monday afternoon:

The feud between the Republican Party of Florida and the TEA Party heated up today when TEA consultant Doug Guetzloe's Orlando radio show was canceled and TEA officials suggested the move was politically inspired.

Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, announced that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was backing his bid for Congress. We believe that your election to the U.S. House will help produce sustained economic growth and help create more jobs, wrote U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue to Rivera.

A new poll from the Florida Chamber of Commerce has good news for Gov. Charlie Crist and his independent campaign for the U.S. Senate but it is an outlier compared to other polls taken in June.

The debate on debates has begun. Susan Wiles from Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scotts team sent his chief rival for the Republican nomination, Attorney General Bill McCollum, a proposal for four debates.

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire real estate investor Jeff Greene, the two leading candidates for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, will be squaring off in their first debate Tuesday morning. Its an odd time of day to be holding a debate -- from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The debate is being hosted at the Palm Beach Post and can be seen via webcast. Ill be live-blogging the debate, which I expect will be sharp and perhaps a bit personal.

Monday morning's Daily Mail reports from London that Tyrone Benton, a worker on the Deepwater Horizon rig, said he spotted a leak in the blowout preventer -- part of the rig's safety equipment -- weeks before the explosion. And reported it. The preventer was shut down and a second one installed -- but there was no attempt to stop the leak. Monday night Benton will be interviewed in depth -- and so will his claims -- on BBC-TV's "Panorama," a program similar to our "60 Minutes."

Really? After spending $30 million on his state and federal political campaigns and serving in public office for three decades, Bill McCollum needs public financing to get his message out? Yep. The attorney general says he will, if allowed, tap the state's campaign kitty in an effort to keep up with Rick Scott's cash machine in the GOP gubernatorial primary. Scott, a multimillionaire who has spent an estimated $15 million of his own money to wage his campaign, has vaulted to a 13-point lead over McCollum in the lastest poll.

The state is pursuing more skimmers to cleanse the Gulf of oil as the slicks hover miles off Panhandle shores, Gov. Charlie Crist and emergency responders told reporters Monday morning. In the meantime, the state has 480,000 feet of boom in place, 170,000 feet staged andhas extended its state of emergency for 26 counties. Joe Boudrow, a deputy commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, has arrived in the state and is starting his first full week to guide efforts.

This morning, former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, now chairman of FreedomWorks, announced he was backing Attorney General Bill McCollums bid to become the next governor of Florida. With Rick Scott posing a serious challenge to the attorney general for the Republican nomination, Armey went out of his way to reinforce McCollums conservative credentials.

While the rush of candidates filing under the TEA Party label at the end of last week gained some attention, only 15 of the candidates made the ballot. Only one TEA Party candidate is going to be running for the Senate -- in the open race to take the seat currently held by Durrell Peaden, R-Crestview. A TEA Party challenger to incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, did not qualify on the ballot. Florida Atlantic University Professor Marshall DeRosa, who had planned to challenge Rep. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, also failed to make the ballot.

Frustrated by what he calls a lack of answers, conflicting information and the apparent disappearance of oil-clearing skimmers from Florida's coast, Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., blasted the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill. "Last Tuesday, there were 32 skimmers off the coast of Florida. Today, there are 20," LeMieux told state Republicans meeting in Tampa on Saturday.

Florida Republican Party Chairman John Thrasher says he is concerned that some of the TEA Party candidates who filed for state legislative races are "not Tea Party people." "There's a certain disingenuousness when 20 people file at the last minute. Some, we're told, may not even live in their districts," said Thrasher, a state senator from Jacksonville. State Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, cast similar doubts on the origins and impetus of the year-old TEA Party, which has been sued by other state Tea organizations for co-opting the name.

His name didn't show up, but Jeff Greene can take heart from the latest polling in the U.S. Senate contest. The George Washington University/Battleground survey shows Republican Marco Rubio and independent Charlie Crist in a dead heat, with Democrat Kendrick Meek trailing nearly 20 points behind. It wasn't always that way. Since Crist bolted the GOP and went "no party affiliation," Meek's numbers have nosedived in direct proportion to Crist's rise.

Republican gubernatorial contenders Bill McCollum and Rick Scott rallied supporters at the Republican Party meeting in Tampa Friday night. Speaking in adjacent halls at the Grand Hyatt, the candidates were introduced by their wives and greeted by rousing crowds. The McCollum crowd was larger and more energized. Former RPOF Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan warmed up the room while McCollum worked his way through the throng.