Me, first! Me, first! cries Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.

As soon as the media reported that President Barack Obama was about to ask BP to establish an escrow account for Deepwater Horizon claims, here comes McCollum with a press release announcing he had thought of it a week before the president.

"I called for (that) last week," McCollum said. ..."
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All right already, Bill. Lots of people said the same thing a week ago. For pity's sake, find something else to bolster your sagging campaign.

Finally some progress a mile down.

BP this morning successfully sliced the pipe gushing oil. Its a ragged cut, the important next step isnt exactly a piece of cake, but the cap is poised just above the gusher at this moment. Adm. Thad Allen told reporters in Metarie, La. that BP is two hours away from lowering it into place.

Fingers crossed. Well let you know how it goes as soon as we do.

William G. Doc Myers, one of the Florida Legislatures giants during the last two decades of the 20th Century a staunch conservative who helped change the color of power in Tallahassee from blue to red died Tuesday. He was 79.

Doc, who lived and practiced medicine in Hobe Sound, was more than my representative and later my senator. He was my doctor and a family friend.

Thirty-one RPOF American Express credit cards issued, but not a single one to the governor?

On the other hand, why would the governor need a credit card when his minions are flashing theirs to the tune of more than $7 million? And these are in-the-shadows people, backgrounders that most Floridians have never heard of.

Readers, RPOF credit cards are going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Trust me. Bookmark this Web site.

Let's hope Florida Sen. Mike Bennett likes to travel, because in the last 72 hours the Bradenton Republican has zipped around the world like a yo-yo. Well, his video image, anyway.

Millions of viewers in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Sydney, Bogata, New York -- and at least a dozen destinations in between -- have seen the point-and-click senator and his not-quite-bikini-clad, dancing quartet. Over and over and over again. I call it a modern miracle of technology.

They said they have nothing to hide, and on Friday Republican Party of Florida Executive Board members backed it up: They unanimously passed a motion to release all American Express statements for all RPOF credit cards during the tenure of former Chairman Jim Greer.

That means AmEx charges -- "thousands of pages of documentation" -- from January 2007 through February 2010 will be publicly available "no later than two weeks from today, Friday, April 23, 2010."

FROM FOX NEWS: The United States Air Force's novel robotic X-37B space plane is tucked inside the bulbous nose cone of an unmanned rocket and poised for an evening blastoff from Florida TONIGHT on a mission shrouded in secrecy.

Read the rest of the story here:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/22/air-forces-mystery-robot-space...

If Gov. Charlie Crist leaves the GOP and jumps into the U.S. Senate race as an Independent, he'll still be behind his primary opponent Marco Rubio. But, according to PulseOpinionResearch.com, the Rasmussen Reports poll, the governor has gained some ground, at least for the moment. The poll of Florida voters finds that 37 percent would vote for GOP frontrunner Marco Rubio, 30 percent for Crist and 22 percent for Democrat Kendrick Meek. Thats a lot closer than a month ago, when Rubio had a 17-point lead and Crist was in third place.

Who among Florida Senate candidates is out there spending up a storm? Does it surprise you to know that they're all Republicans? Or, that the biggest spender of all is an incumbent who stands virtually 0 -- that's zero -- chance of losing even if he were stoney broke and sitting on a street corner rattling a money jar?

Why are they spending so much now? Don't worry, we'll be asking. In the meantime, here are the Big 5 spend-it-if-you've-got-it chart-toppers:

Mike Haridopolos District 26 Incumbent $ 341,324