With rumors continuing to fly that the House will promptly adjourn after being called to special session on Tuesday, independent gubernatorial candidate Bud Chiles said that the Legislature needs to forward a proposed constitutional amendment banning oil drilling in state waters to the voters in November.

With Attorney General Bill McCollum talking health care and making a play for primary voters in Naples on Monday, the team of Rick Scott -- his chief rival for the Republican gubernatorial campaign -- is warning conservatives not to buy McCollums spin.

Public Policy Polling (PPP) is offering a glimpse into a poll it will release Tuesday, which reveals a little bit of who is backing independent Gov. Charlie Crist in the U.S. Senate race.

One thing we asked on the poll was whether people thought Charlie Crist should caucus with the Democrats or Republicans if he was elected. Forty-three percent of respondents said he should go with the Democrats and 37 percent with the Republicans, noted PPP.

The Democrats held their Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hollywood this weekend and raised more than $700,000 for the party.

Its a strange year for Florida Democrats.

Former Rep. Loranne Ausley, the Democratic candidate for state CFO, continued to attack her Republican rival, Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, on Monday.

Urging the Senate to forward a proposed constitutional amendment banning oil drilling in Florida waters to the voters, Ausley wrote in an e-mail to supporters, The Legislature is scheduled to convene at noon tomorrow, and the current plan by Atwater and House Speaker Larry Cretul is to do nothing!

Well, that didn't take long. After sending a letter to U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek -- his chief competitor for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination -- on Monday morning, warning that the race was going to get nastier, billionaire financier Jeff Greene took aim at his rival.

Greene released a new television ad, trashing Meek and blaming the congressman for Floridas continuing high unemployment.

The campaign team for Rick Scott, currently ahead of Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, is forwarding a letter to the Florida Times-Union from former RPOF chairman Tom Slade taking shots at the GOP leadership in Tallahassee, including McCollum and his key allies.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses just endorsed former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, in the race for the U.S. Senate.

For nearly a decade we have worked closely with Marco Rubio as he has defended and supported small businesses in the state Legislature, said NFIB Florida Executive Director Bill Herrle on Monday morning. Rubio has a nearly 100 percent lifetime pro-small-business voting record with NFIB, which is easy proof that he is the right candidate for small business.

Leaders of organized labor, including the head of the Florida AFL-CIO, held a media event Friday, calling for the special session of the Legislature to tackle revising state statutes on unemployment extension. They said they had not yet found a sponsor but that members of the Legislature were behind them.