U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, wants to knowif White House access to filmmakers has resulted in the release of classified information involving the raid that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Rooney, a member of the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, asked Department of Defense Acting Inspector General Lynne Halbrooks on Wednesday to investigate the potential leaks.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said hes heard significant interest in the Sunshine State from companies from Spain. But he acknowledged that long-term success from the ongoing business development mission in Madrid may be hard to fully quantify.
Officials from at least one tourism company in Madrid plan to do more business in Miami, while a Spanish woman may bring her childrens books and magazines to Florida, he said.
Freshman U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is in solid shape with voters in the Sunshine State, according to a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday.
Rubio is garnering buzz that he could end up as Mitt Romneys running mate on the Republican presidential ticket and the poll finds that adding the favorite son would help the GOP in Florida. While the poll has Romney ahead of President Barack Obama, 47 percent to 41 percent, when Rubio is added to the GOP ticket the Republicans take 49 percent, while Obama/Vice President Joe Biden follow with 41 percent.
A poll released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday finds that Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has the lead over Barack Obama in the crucial swing state of Florida.
The poll finds Romney taking 47 percent followed by Obama with 41 percent. Obama led Romney 49 percent to 42 percent in a Q-Poll taken at the end of March, but Romney led 44 percent to 43 percent in one taken in early May.
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As the Florida Department of Education tries to handle the fallout of the collapse in FCAT writing scores, the office of Gov. Rick Scott has been intimately involved in efforts to roll out the test scores, according to staff emails.
Showing an interest often reserved for issues like economic development, one of the governor's priorities, Scott's top staff has played a key role in coordinating the state's response after a dramatic drop in test scores prompted a scramble by officials to temporarily lower the passing grade on the writing portion of the assessment.
Email exchanges concerning congressional candidate Al Lawson's campaign have raised questions about political involvement within the state Senate Minority Office.
The April 9 emails from and to staff director Theresa Frederick discussed Lawson and his Democratic and Republican opponents.
In the first email, posted at 6:06 a.m. that Monday, Frederick thanks a correspondent for "the info on Jay Liles" [a Democratic primary opponent of Lawson's].It is always helpful toknow what the opposition is up to."
Frederickwent on to write on her Blackberry:
WASHINGTON -- Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.
The three Florida Supreme Court justices seeking to hold onto their seats hit a bump in the road in Hillsborough County last weekend.
In a straw poll conducted by the Hillsborough County Republican Party, none of the justices facing statewide retention votes in November garnered even close to the simple majority required. The results were these:
