Either the governor has been smoking something he shouldn't, or he's found an old pair of Charlie Crist's flip-flops. How else do we explain his bizarre desertion of maybe the corest of his core principles: free-market competition?
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The IRS scandal -- the denial of essential tax-exempt status to conservative advocacy groups, thereby effectively suppressing the groups' activities -- demonstrates this: When government is empowered to regulate advocacy, it will be tempted to suppress some of it. And sometimes government will think like Oscar Wilde: "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
With 2016 around the corner, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) will be hosting the Sunshine Summit in Orlando from Nov. 12-Nov. 14 and the stakes will be high. The presidential hopefuls will take most of the spotlight but there’s another important race already taking shape as Rubio has said he will not run for a second Senate term. Florida Republicans Ron DeSantis, David Jolly, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Todd Wilcox are already off and running and they will be at the Sunshine Summit trying to win support for their Senate bids.
With 2016 around the corner, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) will be hosting the Sunshine Summit in Orlando from Nov. 12-Nov. 14 and the stakes will be high.
All that whining and wringing of hands over the Republican Party of Florida's presidential primary rule changes, and look what happened. Nothing but good.
"'Shut up,' he explained." That's a sentence from Ring Lardner's short story "The Young Immigrunts." It's an exasperated father's response from the driver's seat to his child's question, "Are you lost, Daddy?"
With 2016 around the corner, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) will be hosting the Sunshine Summit in Orlando from Nov. 12-Nov. 14 and the stakes will be high. The presidential hopefuls will take most of the spotlight but there’s another important race already taking shape as Rubio has said he will not run for a second Senate term. Florida Republicans Ron DeSantis, David Jolly, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Todd Wilcox are already off and running and they will be at the Sunshine Summit trying to win support for their Senate bids.
"The United States is being sucked into a new Middle East war," says The New
With 2016 around the corner, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) will be hosting the Sunshine Summit in Orlando from Nov. 12-Nov. 14 and the stakes will be high. The presidential hopefuls will take most of the spotlight but there’s another important race already taking shape as Rubio has said he will not run for a second Senate term. Florida Republicans Ron DeSantis, David Jolly, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Todd Wilcox are already off and running and they will be at the Sunshine Summit trying to win support for their Senate bids.
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immoveable object?That's one question raised by the 2016 presidential campaign.
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By Kevin Derby
Democrats have the advantage in Duval County by almost 5.5 percent but Republicans are currently outvoting them by almost 9,000 votes, giving the GOP a leg up of more than 4.5 percent, by 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
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It's dark, dreary and windy in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Tuesday and those counties have already been wet with rain.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist's hopes to return to Tallahassee pin on the chances that those blue county voters will turn out to the polls for him, especially given the deficit he's already seeing in Democrat vs. GOP voter participation.
Will the storm clouds and their chance of rain keep voters home in those all-important counties where Crist has spent the most time and money?
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Former Gov. Charlie Crist is getting a little help from the president himself this Election Day -- on Tuesday, President Barack Obama featured in a new radio ad urging voters to cast their ballots to send Crist back to Tallahassee.
The Miami Herald reported Tuesday that the ad has been airing since Monday on a Miami radio station.
By Kevin Derby
Roll Callreleased its updated list of the 10 most vulnerable congressional incumbents over the weekend and two Florida congressmen made the list.
U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Fla., placed No. 3 on the list. Roll Call notes:
Garcias re-election was always a concern for the national party, but his bid took a rough turn in 2013, when two former staffers garnered horrific headlines amid a voter fraud scandal.
By Kevin Derby
Former Gov. Jeb Bush went to bat for Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam on Monday at a rally in Sarasota. Putnam is a favorite to beat Democrat Thad Hamilton on Tuesday.
We need to elect conservative leaders who believe in limited government, believe in entrepreneurial capitalism and believe that individuals acting together can create a better America, Bush said on Monday. One of those people we need to elect is a great friend and a spectacular leader, and his name is Adam Putnam.
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Gov. Rick Scott will be teaming up with Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday to make his final push for his second term in Tallahassee.
Perry will join Scott all over the state, making stops inMiami, Fort Myers, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Pensacola.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made his final pitch to conservatives across the nation on Monday as the GOP hopes to flip the U.S. Senate in Tuesdays elections.
Barack Obama and Harry Reid have made our nation less safe and less prosperous, Rubio emailed supporters of his Restore America PAC. Obamacare is a disaster. Regulatory agencies are out of control.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam holds a strong lead going into Election Day.
Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a poll on Sunday showing Putnam up on Democrat Thad Hamilton. Putnam takes 49 percent in the poll while Hamilton musters 38 percent support.
The PPP poll of 1,198 likely voters was taken Nov. 1-2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.
By Kevin Derby
Florida CFO Jeff Atwater has a commanding lead as he heads into Tuesdays election, looking for another term.
Atwater has the edge in a new poll of likely voters from Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats. The poll, which was unveiled on Sunday, has Atwater out front with 51 percent -- the only statewide candidate who gets a majority in the poll. Rankin lags behind with 37 percent.
The PPP poll of 1,198 likely voters was taken Nov. 1-2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi looks headed for a second term after the results come on Tuesday night.
Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a poll of likely voters on Sunday which shows Bondi with a comfortable lead over former DCF Secretary George Sheldon, the Democratic nominee. Bondi takes 46 percent of voters while Sheldon garners 37 percent. Tallahassee attorney Bill Wohlsifer gets 5 percent on the Libertarian line.
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