Score another win for Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.

Putnams Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act (HB 7219) received unanimous support from the House Appropriations Committee and, on Wednesday, he thanked committee chairwoman Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring, and the members for supporting it.

In an interview with the Daily Beast, the always colorful and controversial Andrew Breitbart cheered the prospect of Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West running for president with businessman Herman Cain as his running mate:

Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux released a web video attacking Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Tuesday. The video, which features a parody of Facebook, tried to connect Nelson to President Barack Obamas fiscal policies.

Daniel Larison over at the American Conservative fired away at Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio from the right on foreign policy:

With the U.S. Department of Justice having shut down three online poker sites last week, Mark Hinkle, the chairman of the national Libertarian Party, has declared that the Obama administration has launched a War on Poker.

"The Obama administration has just trampled on the rights of millions of Americans," said Hinkle. "This is also a scary reminder of President Obama's vision of a government with the power to shut down websites it doesn't like, before a trial has even started.

Who cares about the RNC threatening to undermine the Florida presidential primary if its held early? Not the leading Republican presidential candidates, according to an interesting article by Alexander Burns over at Politico. While the RNC continues to huff and puff about Florida holding an early primary, the candidates -- especially in what appears to be a very open fight for the presidential nomination -- simply cant blow off the Sunshine State.

Rep. Perry Thurston, D-Plantation, the next-in-line to be the House Minority Leader, was named early on as the Democratic point man for the redistricting process. But when members for the redistricting House committees were named Tuesday, Thurston's name was not among them.

Thurston, speaking after the House Redistricting Committee's first meeting Wednesday, said that could change.

"I think there's a move afoot to make that correction," Thurston said.

Saltwater fishers in Florida will not need a license for two weekends in June, and admission to state parks will be half off on Mother's Day and Father's Day, two state agencies announced Tuesday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees the parks, made the announcements during a meeting of the Florida Cabinet, being held in Panama City to mark the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Viewpoint Florida released a poll on Tuesday that showed that former Gov. Jeb Bush was routing President Barack Obama in Florida in a potential, but very unlikely, 2012 presidential match up

While the former governor has expressed no interest in running for the Republican presidential nomination, the poll found 57 percent backing Bush, who served two terms as governor, while 38 percent of those surveyed backed Obama.

The poll of 807 likely voters was taken on April 13 and 14 and had a margin of errorof +/- 3.5 percent.

House Democratic Leader Ron Saunders of Key West got his troops lined up for redistricting on Tuesday, sending a memo to House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, naming ranking Democrats for the three subcommittees but no ranking Democrat for the full Redistricting Committee. Saunders pointed to the exclusion of Incoming Democratic Leader Perry Thurston, D-Plantation, as the reason for this.