Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, now running in a crowded Republican primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, came out swinging at the Occupy Wall Street movement on Thursday.
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By Kevin Derby
A poll released on Thursday found that businessman Herman Cain now leads the pack of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa --the state that holds the first in the procession of primaries and caucuses that will determine who emerges to take on President Barack Obama in November 2012.
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Florida Chamber President Mark Wilson reaffirmed the business organizations opposition to legislation that would allow expanded casino gambling in South Florida.
However, he said, during a media conference in the Capitol Thursday on the priorities of the chamber in the upcoming session, the group is willing to take a second look at the casinos if advocates are able to show the proposed megacasinos would reduce rather than expand gambling.
By Kevin Derby
Businessman Herman Cain, one of the leading Republican presidential candidates in polls at the state and national levels, is drawing fire from one his rivals -- former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania -- for comments he made about abortion.
Cain first told Piers Morgan in a CNN interview, I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the South Florida Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a statement on Thursday on the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now in a crowded Republican primary to take on Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, issued a statement on Thursday regarding the death of former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
By Kevin Derby
As he files his paperwork in New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary, on Thursday, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania can count on the support of 14 legislators from the Granite State -- three of whom endorsed him on Wednesday.
Santorum announced on Wednesday that he had received the backing of state Sen. Fenton Groen, R-Rochester, and two Republican state representatives -- John McDonnell of Chichester and John Sedensky of Hampstead.
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Florida senators will be told later today they will face a shortfall of almost $2 billion when they start patching together the budget for next year.
The Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to get a revised bottom line this afternoon from the Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the states economists.
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Following her claim that the economy is on the "upswing," Democratic National Committee boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz is trying to pump up her party's coffers in Mississippi.
DWS's fundraising tour caught the attention of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who called the Democrats "frighteningly out of touch."
While DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in Mississippi today on behalf of the Mississippi Democratic Party, shell likely continue repeating her outlandish claims.
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