June 13, 2012 - 6:00pm
The seven bishops based in Florida on Thursday called for Catholics in the Sunshine State to pray and ponder the role of religion in the public square.
GOP Senate Hopeful Connie Mack Names Broward County Team
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 1:25pm
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the front-runner for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November, unveiled his Broward County team on Thursday.
Broward County is critically important to our success, and this team of talented individuals will help us achieve our goals, Mack said. I am proud of the group we have assembled, and look forward to working closely with them and the voters of Broward County as we work to turn out voters for victory in the primary.
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Citizens United Backs Dave Weldon to Take on Bill Nelson
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 1:12pm
Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CUPVF) announced that they were backing former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon for the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November. CUPVF is the PAC affiliated with conservative group Citizens United, best known for its successful challenge to federal campaign finance laws. CUPVF also put its money where its mouth is -- sending $10,000 to the Weldon campaign.
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Rasmussen: Americans Trust Romney More on Economy than Obama
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 11:58am
The economy is on center stage in national politics on Thursday as Barack Obama heads up to Ohio to offer a speech on the subject in the afternoon to argue that he needs more time to turn it around.
Republicans have been firing away at Obama on the economy this week -- and a new poll shows they have the wind at their back on the issue as more Americans trust Mitt Romney to handle it. A poll of likely voters from Rasmussen Reports shows that 50 percent trust Romney to manage the economy while 42 percent think Obama would do a better job with it.
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Rick 'Lazarus' Scott Once Rose From the Grave, Voted Provisionally -- and It Counted
June 13, 2012 - 6:00pm
The use of a provisional ballot shouldnt be considered a means to deny a voter a chance to cast a ballot, Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday.
Nor, he said, should the voting method be used as a negative in the state-federal fight over Floridas efforts to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the list of voters.
Scott says he knows all about provisional ballots because he had to fill one out in the past. Why? Because once when he went to a voting precinct in Collier County, a poll worker informed him he was dead -- officially, anyway.
Pam Bondi Leaves Her Mark on State GOP as National Spotlight Looms
June 13, 2012 - 6:00pm
During her bid to become Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi downplayed talk about her future political ambitions and ripped into her opponents -- Jeff Kottkamp and Holly Benson in the Republican primary and Democrat Dan Gelber in the general election -- as career politicians.
Pam Bondi Backs Tom Lee Over Rachel Burgin
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 9:39am
Former state Senate President Tom Lee is looking to get back into the Florida Senate -- but he has an interesting Republican primary battle with Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Tampa, looming in August.
Lee won the endorsement of one of the leading Republicans in the state on Thursday when Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she was backing him.
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Mike Hogan Backs Mike Weinstein in First Coast GOP Primary
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 9:27am
Endorsements keep coming in the race to replace term-limited Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, in representing parts of the First Coast in Tallahassee.
On Thursday, Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, announced that he had won the backing of Mike Hogan, who served in the Florida House and as Duval County tax collector before losing out to Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville mayoral race in 2011.
Hogan looked to showcase Weinsteins conservative credentials in his endorsement.
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RNC Accuses Obama of Wanting a Mulligan on the Economy
Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 14, 2012 - 9:07am
With President Barack Obama heading to Ohio on Thursday as he starts his efforts to convince voters that he needs more time to turn the economy around, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is going all out to attack him for wanting a mulligan.
The RNC took aim at Obama in a video unveiled on Thursday -- and, just in time for the U.S. Open which also starts on Thursday, the ad does not shrink from making golf references.
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Rick Scott: 'I Can’t Image We’re Not Going to Win'
Submitted by Anonymous on June 14, 2012 - 8:16am
Gov. Rick Scott expressed optimism as the states push to find non-U.S. citizens among the list of registered voters has moved into the court system.
I cant image were not going to win, Scott said, while continuing to plead the states case in the court of public opinion in separate interviews on WFLA 970-AM in Tampa, WFLA 100.7-FM in Tallahassee and 9.25-FM Fox News in Fort Myers.
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