After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

On Tuesday, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, announced that he was bringing Interim Secretary of State Dawn Roberts on board as staff director for the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Veteran Republican political operative Fred Karger took a large step to announcing a presidential campaign on Tuesday, unveiling a television commercial and hiring staff in Iowa for a possible longshot bid at the White House. If he runs, Karger will be the first openly gay candidate for a major partys nomination in American history. A political operative who served as an adviser to presidential candidates John Connally, Bob Dole and Paul Laxalt, Karger also worked with the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

The staff of the National Journal released their list of the 10 worst commercials of the 2010 election cycle -- and outgoing Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson made the list twice. Grayson won the dubious honor of having the worst commercial of the year with his ad featuring little children chanting Alan Grayson saved our schools. Graysons shot at Republican opponent Dan Webster -- who beat Grayson on Election Day -- where he called his foe Taliban Dan also was on the list, coming in seventh.

On Tuesday, Tallahassee Mayor John Marks and Mayor Vladimir Evlanov of Krasnodar, the Russian town that is Tallahassees sister city, wrote to outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, urging him to vote for the START Treaty currently before Congress.