Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner and state CFO Alex Sink will be in Jacksonville Tuesday as she continues her Business Plan for Florida tour. Sink will be touring the Jacksonville Port Authority and afterward will have a news conference at the Florida East Coast Railway yard. Sink will talk about her plans to revitalize Floridas transportation network and, as befitting her stops on Tuesday, both rail andmaritime issueswill be on her agenda.

Club for Growth political action committee endorsed Marco Rubio last fall for U.S. Senate. Now an affiliated group called Club for Growth Action is blasting Rubio's primary foe, Gov. Charlie Crist, with a radio ad beaming across the I-4 Corridor. The spot hammers Crist over his U.S. Sugar-Everglades deal, likening it to the "disastrous bailouts coming from Washington." It urges Floridians to Tell Charlie Crist that taxpayers need his help more than U.S. Sugar.

Are you sitting on the edge of your seat wondering who is going to be the next lieutenant governor of Florida? If so, strange to say, youre not alone and now there is a website for all four of uswho pass anxious nights pondering who will become our 18th lieutenant governor. Our Campaigns has set up a page listing some of the various contenders and there are no real surprises.

Frank Sanchez received a recess appointment from President Barack Obama to become Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade this weekend.

After the "Fox News Sunday" debate -- within 20 minutes of each other -- both GOP senatorial candidates Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio released press statements declaring victory. Rubio's: Under the headline Verdict is in! ... Marco Wins -- Charlie avoided debating Marco for almost a year and now we know why! because Charlie Crist had no vision, record or conservative principles to promote, he did what politicians do distort and attack.

James "Buddy" Caldwell, attorney general for Louisiana, had the distinction of being the only Democrat among the 12 AGs joining Bill McCollum in suing the federal government over its health-care bill. Here's how Caldwell explained his position today:

Hallelujah! Lawmakers will get the chance to sit down to Seder or celebrate Good Friday with families and friends in their home districts. The Senate President and House Speaker have canceled all committees next week. Senators and Representatives will only come in for day-long sessions Wednesday and Thursday to hack away at budget proposals on the chamber floors. Praise the Lord.

Florida is now facing the largest unemployment rate in the states history. The Agency for Workforce Innovation just released its unemployment figures for February and the unemployment rate went up to 12.2 percent. In February 2009, the figure stood at 9.2 percent. Floridas unemployment rate remains way above the national average which stands at 9.7 percent.

Gov. Charlie Crist announced he is opening bidding on the state's $1.8 billion First Coast Outer Beltway that will connect I-595 in St. Johns County and I-10 in Duval County, near Jacksonville. The 46.5-mile road will be the the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the Florida Department of Transportation and is being billed as creating "thousands" of jobs.

According to a statement by the Senate Majority Leader's office, Democrats have launched a coordinated partisan attack on Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for filing a lawsuit against the federal healthcare legislation. Senate Majority Leader Alex de la Portilla defended McCollum saying, "In that role [as Florida's duly elected chief legal representative], not only is General McCollum's legal review of this new federal healthcare bureaucracy appropriate, it is obligatory."

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum apparently is on to something. Leading a dozen other AGs in filing suit against the federal government over the newly enacted health-care bill, McCollum has tapped into a state's rights surge.

Former New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith pulled out of the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination late Thursday night, citing an inability to raise funds to continue his campaign. Smith sent out an email to his supporters with the news. He did not offer an endorsement to any other candidate. Smith represented New Hampshire for 18 years in Congress and ran for the White House in 2000 as a Republican and later as an independent.

As expected, the new health-care legislation contains loopholes that exempt certain congressional staffers. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, saw this coming and today joined 17 other members of Congress in introducing a bill that would eliminate the special health care reform exemption for certain congressional staff so that all legislative branch employees are treated the same.

In the spirit of the season, Gov. Charlie Crist released his last 10 years of tax returns. Although not required, Crist released his returns along with his Financial Disclosure forms with the Florida Commission on Ethics. Crist's latest return, from 2008, shows him filing separately from his wife, Carole Lynn Crist. The "Married, Filing Separately" status usually indicates a large disparity between spousal incomes.

The St. Pete Times doesn't practice political activism? Hmmm. On one of its blogs today, a reporter runs a headline, "Crist backs union-busting education bill." "Union-busting" -- odd term to portray SB 6 as it makes its way to Gov. Crist for a signature. Union-busting is a term with a long and controversial history. All negative. It implies that the bill has a goal of twisting arms, cracking skulls -- figuratively speaking, anyway -- and forcing unions to disband.