Rep. David Rivera of Miami, who is the Republican nominee for the congressional seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, chimed in on Friday afternoon on a report from the U.S. Department of Labor showing almost 100,000 jobs were lost in September.

When congressional Democrats passed the nearly $1 trillion stimulus 19 months ago, they told us that it would create millions of jobs, said Rivera. Instead, nearly 3 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus passed, and unemployment has hovered near 10 percent nationwide.

Over the years, political candidates have taken attempted to gain some attention by crossing Florida. Lawton Chiles, who was virtually unknown, made headlines by walking across the state in his successful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1970. In 1916, gubernatorial candidate Sidney Catts gained attention by driving across the state in his Model T Ford.

Democratic attorney general candidate Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach launched his first television ad of the general election on Friday -- directing an attack against Republican opponent Pam Bondi.

The ad looks to link Bondi, who has served almost 20 years in the state attorneys office in Tampa, to corruption in Tallahassee.

Mayors of New York have not done well when they run for the presidency -- ask John Lindsey, Rudy Giuliani and DeWitt Clinton. Come to think of it, the only New York City resident to sit in the White House was Chester A. Arthur and he got there because James A. Garfield was assassinated ( Teddy Roosevelt was always a bit more Long Island than Manhattan and came to the presidency when William McKinley was assassinated).

The latest White House shakeup was announced on Friday -- a week after Rahm Emmanuel left his post as chief of staff. On Friday, news broke that Gen. James Jones, who put in 40 years with the Marines and was a special envoy for the Bush administration in 2007 in the Middle East, is leaving his post as White House national security adviser. Jones will be replaced by Tom Donislon, currently serving as Jones deputy.

Having held a round-table ongang violence earlier in the week, Republican attorney general candidate Pam Bondi released her strategy on Friday to combat the problem.

Bondi stressed her experienced as a prosecutor and noted that she had drawn upon law enforcement groups and youth organizations and charities to formulate her plan.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race, weighed in on Friday on a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing continued job loss across the nation.

Rubio directed the blame onto the Obama administration.

Still licking his wounds from losing the Republican gubernatorial primary and refusing to endorse GOP nominee Rick Scott, Attorney General Bill McCollum announced on Friday that his office had finished cracking down on cell-phone providers offering free ringtones and other content that ended up costing Floridians more than they thought.

Ken Connor, formerly head of the Family Research Council and now with the Center for a Just Society, offered his take on a controversial commercial being run by Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson calling his Republican opponent, former House Speaker Dan Webster, Taliban Dan.

The U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, mainly due to the loss of temporary 2010 Census workers and other government jobs, according to the jobs report released Friday by the Labor Department.