Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the overwhelming favorite to be the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race, took aim at President Barack Obamas recent comments supporting the creation of a mosque close to where the World Trade Center stood in New York.

President Barack Obamas recent comments in support of building a mosque near the site of where the World Trade Center stood in New York has received opposition from within his own party, namely in the form of Jeff Greene who is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

"President Obama has this all wrong and I strongly oppose his support for building a mosque near Ground Zero especially since Islamic terrorists have bragged and celebrated destroying the Twin Towers and killing nearly 3,000 Americans, said Greene.

Last week the St. Petersburg Times printed a story connecting Jeff Greene to a man now being investigated for mortgage fraud. Greene had sold him a building complex previously.

Greene called the story libelous, saying that he's not responsible for the actions of the person who purchased the building from him.

Jeff Greene, running against U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate election, took a shot at Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running in the race without any party affiliation. Greene commented on a Mason-Dixon poll showing declining approval of the way Crist has handled his job as governor.

While two polls have shown Attorney General Bill McCollum ahead of Rick Scott in the bitterly fought contest for the Republican gubernatorial nod, a new poll released on Friday, taken by Ispos and commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald, has Scott ahead.

Here comes porn in the Senate again, but this time not Florida's ...

The Associated Press, as well as other major national news organizations, is reporting that U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene is facing a felony charge of showing porn to a South Carolina college student.

On Thursday, former Tallahassee Mayor Scott Maddox, the Democratic candidate to be Floridas next commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, attended the Farm to Fuel Summit in Orlando.

Florida has failed to adequately invest in our agriculture base including new technologies to help shepherd Florida agriculture into new areas such as organic farming and other sustainable practices that will keep jobs in our state while giving us a competitive advantage over oversees growers, said Maddox.

A new poll from Mason-Dixon has Attorney General Bill McCollum regaining the lead over health-care executive Rick Scott in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The new poll had McCollum at 34 percent and Scott at 30 percent -- a dramatic change from a week ago when the poll had Scott up 37 to 31. The poll of Republican voters surveyed from Aug. 9-11 had a margin of error of +/- 5 percent.

Noting that unemployment has risen dramatically since the Democrats took control of Congress after the 2006 elections, Karen Harrington, one of the Republicans in the primary to take on U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, came out swinging at the incumbent on Thursday.

On Thursday morning, Jeff Greene took a shot at U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race, saying that the congressman was milking taxpayers to pay for his car.