Charlie Crist will be making a pit stop in Jacksonville to promote his new book "The Party's Over," but the party has just begun for Duval County Republicans.

According to an email, the Duval GOP will be hosting a "Hey Charlie Party" at the Books-A-Million to welcome Crist to Jacksonville.

Anti-Charlie Crist protesters showed up in Fort Myers earlier this week where Crist kicked off his statewide book tour. Jacksonville is the third stop for Crist's nine-city book tour. Other stops are also planned for Tallahassee, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg.

Whatever you think of Joe Garcia, the Democratic congressman from Miami knows poison when he sees it. And Obamacare isn't a potion he wants to take him out in 2014.

So -- Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Obamacare love letters aside -- in its latest ad, the House PAC supporting Garcia is insulating him against claims he's an Obamacare apologist.

The ad doesn't even mention Garcia's most potent rival, Carlos Curbelo.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, unveiled a bill earlier this week giving the U.S. secretary of veterans affairs the ability to fire or demote senior VA department officials based on performance. Rubios and Millers bill would give the VA secretary the ability to fire or demote senior executive service (SES) officials in the department. As of fiscal year 2012, there were 448 SES officials in the department.