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

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a new television commercial on Tuesday attacking state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee for governor. The commercial focuses on banks that Sink worked for -- and the fraud charges they faced. Alex Sinks bank was fined millions for deceptive sales practices in her own bank branches and she claims she didnt know they were going on, said Dan Conston, a spokesman for the RPOF. Was she involved in the marketing and operations of the scam or did she not know what was going on in the lobbies of her Florida branches?

With less than a month to go until the general election, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate race, is turning his fire away from Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation, onto Republican candidate former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race. Since winning the nomination, Meek has hammered Crist, looking to keep Democrats from voting for the governor. Now with Rubio ahead by double digits in the polls, Meek focused his attacks onto the Republican.

In 2008 Florida's pension system, fourth largest in the country, was 100 percent funded. In fact Florida was one of only four states in such an enviable position. No longer. A consulting actuary for Milliman, Inc., told the Florida Retirement System Actuarial Assumption Estimating Conference Monday that the state is good for only 87.9 percent of the money it promised its retirees -- that's a worsened number, down from 89.3 percent last year.

A Rick Scott ad debuting Tuesday lists a litany of fines against "Alex Sink's bank." Among them: