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

With the GOP presidential primary now in the rearview mirror, Florida Republicans can expect more focus on the contest to see who will emerge with the partys nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November.

Republican presidential hopeful former House Speaker Newt Gingrich released his draft of an executive order that he vows to enact, if elected, on the first day of his presidency, allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. President Barack Obama opposes the pipeline which would send oil into the U.S. from Canada. Gingrichs draft of the order is below: By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Sierra Club president Michael Brune said last week that he stopped his organization's acceptance of donations from a gas-drilling company when he found out about them. Turns out that his chronology might be off. "In 2010, soon after I became the organization's executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country's largest natural gas companies," Brune wrote in his "Coming Clean" blog.

Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs late on Monday. The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.