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

Another holiday, another chance for politicians to highlight their position on the issues. With Labor Day upon us, politicians from both parties are talking about their plans to get Floridians back to work.

Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Wayne Smith told Sunshine State News he's off the November ballot because the state Division of Elections "lost my paperwork. "I submitted three pieces of paper -- a lieutenant governor statement (naming Libertarian Party Chairman J.J. McCurry), a notarized financial disclosure plus my party loyalty oath -- and now (state officials) say they only have the latter two," Smith said. Smith said he hand-delivered the documents to Tallahassee, as he did when he ran as a No Party Affiliation gubernatorial candidate in 2006.

U.S Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the U..S Senate race, was supposed to debate former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate, on Sunday mornings Meet the Press on NBC. Rubio pulled out last week due to his ailing father, who has since passed away.

It keeps turning up, that maybe not-so-porny video of state Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, sitting at his seat on the Florida Senate floor, checking out a line of lusty, barely clad beach babes on his computer. What a punctuation mark it put on the last day of the 2010 session of the Legislature.