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

A new movie with a favorable slant on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's rise to national prominence, culminating in her being tapped to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008, will open in Orlando along with a dozen other cities around the country on July 15. It will be shown in AMC movie theaters. The Undefeated will also be unveiled in Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Orange County, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis and Kansas City next month, but early primary states like Iowa will be able to get a sneak preview.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the front-runner for the Republican presidential notification in 2012, announced on Thursday that his campaign would not take part in straw polls, including one in Orlando in September. The team behind former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah, who has expressed interest in entering the primaries but has yet to formally announce his candidacy, insisted their candidate would enter the Florida straw poll if he runs.

In his first national television interview since he resigned from the U.S. House in a cloud of scandal in 2006, Mark Foley admitted to Fox News' "Hannity" viewers Thursday night that his sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages were "horriffic behavior" that "embarrassed myself, my staff, my constituents, the Chamber I loved ..."

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich continues to stumble in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. His senior staff -- from his campaign manager to his communications director to his chief strategists -- jumped off the Gingrich bandwagon on Thursday afternoon. With some of Gingrichs former staffers having close ties to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, speculation has been renewed that Perry may be looking at getting into the race.