A day after the state and federal government announced they were suing each other over Floridas attempt to clean up its voter lists, Gov. Rick Scott took the Sunshine States case to the nations electronic airwaves.
Scott spent Tuesday morning doing interviews on a Tampa TV station, cable giants Fox News and CNN, and on radio via Americas News Network and Bill Bennetts Morning in America.
Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."
Florida has taken the Obama administration to court to gain access to the Homeland Security database the governors office has requested since September.
The state claims it has tried in vain to get DHS's help in finding noncitizens among Floridas registered voters.
The lawsuit comes as the U.S. Department of Justice reiterated the demand for the state to immediately cease the ongoing review of voters. The review violates federal law, being undertaken within 90 days of an election.
FreedomWorks, a national tea party organization, is wading into Florida's U.S. Senate race with a strong call to support U.S. Rep. Connie Mack's bid to knock off Democrat Bill Nelson.
Comparing the four-term Naples congressman's record with the 16 months that rival Republican George LeMieux served in the Senate, the FreedomWorks analysis argues that Mack is the more reliable conservative.
"Perhaps most significantly, Mack was one of the few members of Congress in 2008 who voted against the TARP/Wall Street bailout -- twice.
Dont expect a state university seeking the maximum 15 percent tuition hike to get the full request, State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan said Monday.
Brogan said a decision last week by the University of Floridas board of trustees not to seek the maximum increase should be considered a shot heard around the world -- or at least across the academic world of Florida -- that many people dont have the appetite for another year of hikes hitting 15 percent.
Florida voters were sold a bill of goods in 1976 when they voted to quit electing judges at the appellate level -- including the Florida Supreme Court -- and move to what is called "merit retention."
Criminal justice experts say they weren't surprised by last week's study showing that the time Florida prisoners spend behind bars has grown more than in any other state a 166 percent increase in the average sentence between 1990 and 2009.
Former Department of Corrections Secretary James McDonough ascribed the findings of the report, "Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms" by the Pew Center on the States to changes in Florida statutes during the mid-to-late 1990's.
University of Florida trustees shouldnt limit the search to replace its president strictly to the academic world, said State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan on Monday.
Brogan, in the Capitol Monday for the governors Blue Ribbon Task Force on Education meeting, said nontraditional candidates should get as much consideration as those from the academic world.
