Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton 2012?
CNN is running an interview with Bob Woodward where he speculates that there is a strong chance that President Barack Obama will ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve as vice president in 2012. Woodward believes Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden could switch positions.
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Palin Miami Event Canceled, to Appear in Palm Beach Instead
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's event planned for Wednesday in Miami has been canceled, but she's still headed for the Sunshine State.
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Whistleblower Wants McCollum's Ouster from Health Care Fraud Settlement -- AP
The Associated Press reports that a whistleblower in a potential multimillion-dollar health-care fraud settlement has filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court to remove Attorney General Bill McCollum from the settlement talks.
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Poll: Republicans Lead in All Cabinet Races
The United Faculty of Miami Dade College has just released polling results showing Republicans ahead of Democrats in all three Cabinet races.
It also shows a trend other polls have been showing -- of Rick Scott leading Alex Sink for governor.
Gubernatorial:
Rick Scott: 51.5
Alex Sink: 46.0
CFO Race:
Jeff Atwater: 55.3
Loranne Ausley: 40.4
Attorney General:
Pam Bondi: 52.5
Dan Gelber: 43.2
Commissioner of Agriculture:
Adam Putnam: 50.7
Scott Maddox: 44.4
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Private Investigators Group Backs Adam Putnam
On Tuesday, the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI), representing more than 650 private investigators, backed U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, the Republican candidate to be Floridas next commissioner of agriculture and consumer services.
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Pam Bondi Vows to Fight Domestic Violence
On Tuesday, former Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi, the Republican candidate for attorney general, focused on domestic violence issues.
Bondi played up her experience as a prosecutor and stressed that the next attorney general would lead the Statewide Domestic Fatality Review Team which reviews fatal and near-fatal domestic violence incidents.
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Florida TaxWatch Releases Study on Amendment 4
Florida TaxWatch released a study on Tuesday attempting to portray the economic impact if Florida voters back Amendment 4 come November. The study contends that the measure could cost Florida more than $1 billion a year with between $45 million and $83 million spent on special election costs that, the study insists, would be necessary if the amendment is adopted.
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Jeb Bush: 'Charlie Crist Should Be Ashamed' of Ad Attacking Rubio
Former Gov. Jeb Bush took Gov. Charlie Crist to task for a new television ad, accusing Marco Rubio, the governors Republican rival in the U.S. Senate election, of looking to slash Social Security benefits.
Charlie Crist should be ashamed of his false attack against Marco Rubio on Social Security, said Bush in a statement sent out by the Rubio campaign. Charlie Crist is purposely trying to scare seniors in order to win votes.
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Ode to Charlie Crist
The campaign team of Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running in the U.S. Senate election, posted a poem written by James Tokley, the poet laureate of Tampa, entitled The Peoples Independent.
What Party is Democracy
And by what other name
May the Friends of this Republic
Reconstruct the name they claim?
What politic shall we ascribe
To the words of F. Scott Key,
When he awoke to find that our
new nation was still free?
When Jefferson said, We do believe
Mankind is born the same,
What Democrat or Republican stood
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Focusing on Fraud, RPOF Hits Alex Sink in New TV Spot
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a new television commercial on Tuesday attacking state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee for governor. The commercial focuses on banks that Sink worked for -- and the fraud charges they faced.
Alex Sinks bank was fined millions for deceptive sales practices in her own bank branches and she claims she didnt know they were going on, said Dan Conston, a spokesman for the RPOF. Was she involved in the marketing and operations of the scam or did she not know what was going on in the lobbies of her Florida branches?
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