Republicans turned to FloridafreshmanCongressman David Rivera on Tuesday to respond to a jobs speech that President Barack Obama made the day before in North Carolina.

The presidents speech yesterday did nothing but reiterate the failed policies he has been espousing since the start of his term, Riverasaid Tuesday. America deserves better.

The conservative Florida Family Association (FFA) is planning to target companies planning to run ads on The Playboy Club, a new television series that debuts this fall on NBC.

David Caten, FFA executive director, said Tuesday, The show is about Hugh Hefners pioneering of the porn industry with his Playboy Enterprises.

Caten pointed to a release from NBC. It read as follows: This provocative new series captures a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American culture.

In a nationally televised debate where most of the candidates agreed on most of the issues, Rep. Michele Bachmann's announcement that she had filed papers to run for president and Mitt Romney's news flash that the Boston Bruins were up 4-0 in the Stanley Cup Finals drew the biggest cheers Monday night.

From the economy and bailouts to Obamacare and immigration, the seven GOP hopefuls talked up free markets and bashed President Barack Obama's performance.

Bachmann and Romney dominated portions of the two-hour CNNdebate from Manchester, N.H.

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Even as Democrats pledged at their annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner this past weekend to fight for President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelsons re-elections in 2012, some were already beginning to size up contenders for the partys gubernatorial nod in 2014.

Gov. Rick Scotts popularity has sagged to 29 percent. And some Democrats are already looking at a rematch of the 2010 election a few months after a Democratic-leaning polling firm found former Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink would win the election by 19 points if it had been held in March.

Applauding Gov. Rick Scott and most Republican legislators, former Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday that Florida's "culture of reform" ensures future educational gains in the state.

Bush's Foundation for Florida's Future issued grades for lawmakers based on their support for school choice, competition and accountability measures at the 2011 Legislature.

"Reforms enacted this year reorganize schools around the success of every student in the Sunshine State," Bush said in unveiling this year's report card.