State CFO Alex Sink, the leading Democratic candidate in the race for governor, is calling on BP officials to come to Florida to witness the results of the oil spill in the Gulf.

Tony Hayward, his company British Petroleum, and his oil are projected to violate the pristine beaches and crystal clear ocean water of northwest Florida -- and I expect him to be in Pensacola to see firsthand the damage his oil is causing, said Sink.

Sink pulled no punches in calling for BP to use all of its resources to remedy the damage.

It did not take long for the Florida Democratic Party to weigh in on the arrest of former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer. State Democratic Chairwoman Karen Thurman is using Greers arrest to rally Florida voters to defeat his old allies running for office in 2010.

Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of a property insurance measure is earning him praise ... from Democrats. Sen. Dan Gelber, D-North Miami Beach, the former leader of the Democrats in the House and now running in a tight contest for attorney general, cheered the former Republican governor for killing the measure.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is going to hold a news conference at 11:30 a.m.in Orlando about the arrest of former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer. The charges have not been announced but Greer was under investigation due to lavish spending and financial irregularities at the RPOF during his tenure in charge. Greer is currently being held at the John. E. Polk Correctional Facility in Seminole County and is being held without bail.

Democrat Heather Beaven, a Navy veteran who is taking on U.S. Rep. John Mica, is touting the results of a poll her campaign commissioned from SEA.

While the polls margin of error is high at 4.9 percent and shows that Micas approval of 56 percent remains fairly strong in this anti-incumbent year, the poll also reveals Beaven has an opportunity. Voters like her biography more than Micas and only 32 percent favor his re-election while 47 percent think its time for someone else.

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the leading candidate in the Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate nomination, is supporting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holders plan to hold civil and criminal investigations of BP for the oil spill in the Gulf.

"Launching a civil and criminal investigation of BP's role in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy is the right thing to do, said Meek.

The oil spill in the Gulf is not going away--physically or as a political issue. House Minority Leader Franklin Sands, D-Weston, is going after reported comments from Jill Chamberlin, the spokeswoman for House Speaker Larry Cretul, R-Ocala. Chamberlin said that a study of offshore drilling requested by incoming Speaker Dean Cannon, cost Florida $200,000.

In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times Magazine, the paper posed a multiple choice question:
How much should raising student test scores count in teacher evaluations?

a) 35%
b) 50%
c) 100%
d) Not at all

President Barack Obama's Race to the Top program is challenging state legislators all over the country to find a way to improve education performance at public schools. Evaluating teachers and rewarding or punishing them based in part on their students' test scores was one of the points the contest would evaluate.

In a morning that has seen a large number of endorsements, the Associated Builders & Contractors of North Florida (ABC) announced their backing of Steve Southerland, who faces a crowded Republican primary field to take on U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd.