On Friday the Republican National Committee (RNC) established the Florida Hispanic Advisory Council to reach out to Hispanic voters. Florida Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, will chair the new group

While he is not running in 2014, former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., plans to back 14 Republicans in the 2014 election cycle through his Allen West Guardian Fund PAC. West plans to back veterans and minorities running as conservative Republicans. While the PAC did not endorse Navy veteran Jorge Bonilla, who also served in the Marines Reserves, this week, West did showcase his campaign for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., in November. The PAC included Bonilla on its Ones to Watch.

Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., kicked off his campaign for a second term in Congress with the help of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Yohos team released a video from Paul late on Thursday, with the senator endorsing the Florida congressman. With Paul thinking about running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Yoho hyped him up as the presidential front-runner.

U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., is one of 10 Florida Republican congressmen co-sponsoring U.S. Rep. Rod Woodalls, R-Ga., FairTax Act of 2013 (HR 25) and the Jacksonville congressman, who has backed the FairTax since 2006, explained his rationale on Thursday.

Every year Americans negotiate 70,000 pages of costly and complex tax code and spend roughly $265 billion and 6.1 billion hours filling out tax forms, Crenshaw said This amount of time and money can be better spent on growing the economy and creating jobs. Implementing a FairTax would help.

With President Barack Obama heading to the Sunshine State on Thursday, he is drawing fire from an old foe in Gov. Rick Scott.

Rising to political prominence by opposing Obamas federal health-care law, Scott went after Obama for taking funds from Medicaid Advantage to fund the law.

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) took aim at former Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday for defending President Barack Obamas federal health-care law. Despite being a Republican for most of his political career, Crist is the favorite for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in November. The RGA pointed to former state CFO Alex Sinks loss to Republican David Jolly in last weeks special congressional election in Pinellas County, insisting her defense of the health-care law helped lead to her defeat.

Businessman Leo Govoni announced on Thursday that he was suspending his Republican primary challenge to state Rep. Kathleen Peters, R-St. Petersburg. Govoni had been running a conservative challenge and was raising impressive funds out of the gate.

The Tea Party Express announced on Wednesday it was backing businessman Curt Clawson in the Republican primary to replace former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., in Congress. Clawson battles Florida Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto and fomer state Rep. Paige Kreegel in the April 22 primary.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., went after President Barack Obama and the Democrats on Tuesday. West painted the Democrats as a party of defeatists in an email sent out on Tuesday night.

I call it as I see it, West insisted. Obama is the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter or maybe even in our entire history. He's just plain scared to fight for America.

U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., took aim at Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan regime and called for congressional support of the Venezuelan Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act which was introduced by U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.