Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is going national as he contemplates a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Americans for Economic Freedom is running a television ad featuring Perry stressing the economic success of Republican-led states while bashing the policies of the Obama White House.

U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., passed away on Friday. Earlier in the month, Young, who was 82, announced he would not run for re-election. Young had been in the hospital for a back injury resulting from a plane crash he survived back in 1970. There had been reports that Young was in poor health though, earlier in the week, he spoke with former President George W. Bush.

On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott highlighted the growth of online job openings in Florida over the last four and a half years. In April 2009, there were less than 152,200 online job openings in the Sunshine State. Last month, there were more than 271,100.

As his law takes effect, a new poll shows voters are growing more passionate about their view of President Barack Obama on health care.

Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Friday which shows 44 percent of likely voters give Obama good or excellent marks on the issue, up from 35 percent last month. The poll also shows 47 percent of those surveyed give him poor marks, up 8 percent from last month.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken Oct. 12-13 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.

Former state Rep. Carl Domino is turning up the heat on Beltway Democrats as he continues his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla.

Gubernatorial candidate Adrian Wyllie, a businessman and veteran who has led the Florida Libertarian Party, announced in a letter on Thursday that he was resigning from the state committee leading Fix the Debt. Wyllie is a heavy favorite to be the Libertarian gubernatorial nominee in 2014.

Wyllie insisted the group was more interested in public relations than real solutions and pointed to his frustrations in a recent conference when he attempted to oppose efforts to support raising the debt ceiling and was not even recognized.

The full letter follows:

Harris released a poll this week and the results are disheartening, as my beloved Jacksonville Jaguars are the least popular team in the National Football League (NFL). Again.

On Thursday, the Florida state director of Americans for Prosperity, Slade OBrien, ripped into the agreement to raise the debt ceiling and end the federal shutdown.

Gov. Rick Scott weighed in on Thursday on the fight over the debt ceiling and the federal shutdown. Scott contrasted the record in Washington with his own in Tallahassee.

Washingtons failure to reach a long-term agreement on the debt ceiling confirms our nations leaders have their heads in the sand about our economic future, Scott said. Americas unchecked debt, along with the increase in inflation that follows, will only put us deeper in the hole we have been trying to climb out of since the national economic downturn.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West lashed out at President Barack Obama as a tyrant" on Wednesday night and insisted the federal health-care law is not the law of the land.

West took to Facebook on Wednesday night to rail against the agreement to end the federal shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.