State agencies are prohibited from making new rules without the approval of a new governors office on regulations that will also go back over every state contract over $1 million, under an executive order signed by Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday shortly after he took office.

Spurred by a neck-and-neck race that has them smelling the governors office, Democrats had their best two-month fund-raising period ever, making the electoral money race with the Florida Republican Party mirror the contest between Rick Scott and Alex Sink: pretty much tied.

Fresh from a bruising, final governors race debate, Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink hit the road Tuesday in a homestretch drive to push their voters to the polls while sharpening their attacks on each other.

Senate President Mike Haridopolos is talking with senators about the possibility of overriding some of Gov. Charlie Crists 18 vetoes from this year during the coming organizational session, raising the possibility of the first veto reversals in more than a decade.