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

The Florida TEA Party has replaced two sidetracked legislative candidates to bring its slate back up to 21 hopefuls statewide. Osceola business owner Johnny Ferentinos qualified for House District 11 and Central Florida business owner John Perez qualified for House District 91. "Both districts lost their original TEA party nominees with one withdrawal based on Republican Party of Florida threats and thuggery. The other candidate had to withdraw due to accepting new employment with the federal government," according to a TEA press release.

Attorney General Bill McCollum's campaign team just released a memo revealing details on debates with Rick Scott -- McCollum's main rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Charlie Crist might want to ask himself if the benefits outweigh the costs when it comes to his oil-disaster response. He's being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for limiting the special session to only focusing on a constitutional ban on oil drilling. The fact is, it's already illegal to drill for oil off Florida's coast (something Crist himself admitted in an interview on Fox News). Even if the ban had been in place before April, it wouldn't have done anything to prevent the BP oil disaster.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the leading Republican candidate in the race for the U.S. Senate, is celebrating the fact that his campaign has more followers on Facebook than the Democratic National Committee -- or any other candidate across the nation running for theSenate.