In Orlando on Monday, political consultant Doug Guetzloe, founder and chairman of Ax the Tax, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for failing to file his tax returns.

Prosecutors said Guetzloe failed to file returns on almost $187,000 in income in 2005, and more than $188,000 in 2006.

During his February trial, IRS employees testified that Guetzloe repeatedly filed his tax returns late, and because of that, accrued more than $200,000 in fines and penalties.

His attorney asked for, but was denied, just probation for his client.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is voicing his choice for GOP vice presidential candidate loud and clear.

It's Jeb Bush.

The former Florida governor is the choice most likely to put Mitt Romney over the top in November, Graham told The Hill newspaper on Sunday.

Florida already has more than 300 Spanish companies doing business in the state. But Gov. Rick Scott sees more. Earlier this week he proclaimed in a radio interview, "I want a thousand of them."

Heading to Spain this weekend on a business development mission, the governor has a triumphant spirit. Riding with that spirit will be some 60 government officials and Florida businessmen to add girth and pomp to the occasion.

Gov. Scott may need all that, and more.

The national news -- especially celebrity news -- takes a decidedly Florida turn. In fact, a Tallahassee turn.

All of a sudden we find that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose estranged wife Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide Wednesday, has been dating actress Cheryl Hines, best known from the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In case the name Bill Nelson sounds only vaguely familiar, he's the U.S. senator from Florida whose name pops up every six years 1) to run for re-election and 2) to moan about the outrageous ads basically calling him a do-nothing Democratic go-along.

Sure enough, here he is in 2012, outraged again, demanding TV stations pull the new United States Chamber of Commerce 30-second spot on Obamacare. Basically, the ad claims Obamacare will be a "nightmare" for Florida seniors.

Oh, goody. Just what Florida needs. Another gaggle of lawyers using the environment as an excuse to sue the pants off us.

The Center for Biological Diversity, founded in 1989 and based in Tucson, Ariz., says its new office in St. Petersburg will help expand its role in fighting to conserve biodiversity in the Southeast.

More specifically, that role is filing petitions and suing over endangered species.

From Politico on Monday comes news of President Obama's first positive paid TV ad of the 2012 campaign. It's a 60-second piece titled "Go" and it's set to run on stations across Florida early this week. Check it out below.

There's something about Tallahassee. Any sense of the real world is missing up here.

Take this AP story just out about the man some folks at the Capitol call "Governor MacNamara."

Apparently when Steve MacNamara, Gov. Rick Scott's chief of staff, was working for Senate President Mike Haridopolos in 2010, the Senate gave a no-bid contract to Abraham Uccello for $400,000. Uccello was brought on board at Guess-Who's urging to provide technology consulting? That's right, MacNamara's. Uccello and MacNamara are ... well ... thick as ... good friends can be.

It couldn't be more fitting.

Florida Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, will deliver the commencement address for South Florida Polytechnics graduating class Monday evening at the Lakeland Centers Youkey Theatre.

USFP Chancellor David Touchton said, We are pleased Senator Dockery has agreed to deliver the commencement message about doing whats right and always maintaining integrity, as the students enter the work force.

Five Florida community leaders, advocates and legal experts are set to travel to Washington, D.C., Monday for a meeting with Obama White House officials on the vacancy crisis in Americas federal courts.

Floridas District Courts are reeling from four judicial emergencies, while nominees for these seats, Brian Davis, Mark Walker, and Robin Rosenbaum, wait in the wings to be confirmed.