In case the name Bill Nelson sounds only vaguely familiar, he's the U.S. senator from Florida whose name pops up every six years 1) to run for re-election and 2) to moan about the outrageous ads basically calling him a do-nothing Democratic go-along.
Sure enough, here he is in 2012, outraged again, demanding TV stations pull the new United States Chamber of Commerce 30-second spot on Obamacare. Basically, the ad claims Obamacare will be a "nightmare" for Florida seniors.
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With less than three months to go until the Republican primary to see who will emerge to challenge U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, the leading Republicans in the race looked to get their conservative credentials in order -- and question their opponents right-of-center bonafides.
On Tuesday U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unveiled the team of conservatives he hopes will propel him to victory in the Aug.14 Republican primary.
With less than three months to go until the Republican primary to see who will emerge to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, Senate hopeful U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unveiled his team of conservatives on Tuesday.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott got his first taste of the kind of advice he could get from Adam Hollingsworth during the 2010 GOP primary.
The campaign of then-Naples businessman Scott was prepping for debates with seasoned politician Bill McCollum. It was a scary prospect.
Public speaking was a piece of cake for McCollum, a former 10-term U.S. congressman wrapping up his first term as Floridas attorney general. He was a former courtroom attorney, accustomed to appearing on podiums and before crowds, discussing state policy.
The debate in Washington about whether to raise student loan interest rates from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent is nothing more than a debate on whether to place an unjustified tax on students and families.
AAA predicts that 1.6 million Floridians will hit the road, traveling at least 50 miles, for the Memorial Day weekend.
The number would be a 1.2 percent increase from 2011.
Nationally, the auto club group projects 34.8 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, May 24-28, an increase of 1.2 percent -- or 500,000 travelers -- from last year.
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An emergency meeting of the state Board of Education on Tuesday lowered the passing scores on the 2012 FCAT writing exam in an effort to hold districts "harmless" over plummeting test performance.
Where scores averaged in the 80 percent range in 2010 and 2011, results tumbled to 30 percent this year.The sharply lower writing scores more closely matched the reading results, according to earlier stories by Sunshine State News.
Department of Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson admitted that "several things slipped through" prior to the administration of this year's exams.
Prominent Republicans from across the nation have rushed to South Florida to back potential opponents to challenge U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, best known for leading the Democratic National Committee, most of whom either endorsed Ozzie deFaria or Karen Harrington. But former Gov. Robert Ehrlich of Maryland endorsed yet another Republican in the race on Tuesday when he announced that he was backing attorney Gineen Bresso.
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The flurry of Republican National Committee (RNC) conference calls with the media Tuesday focused on key battleground states in the presidential election -- and in those calls Florida featured an unlikely speaker in U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla.
In his announcement to supporters on Monday that he was scaling back his presidential campaign, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, insisted that his team would focus on their strategy at the convention in Tampa come August. Jesse Benton, Pauls campaign manager, did exactly that in a memo sent out on Tuesday.
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