March 4, 2012 - 6:00pm
Mike Haridopolos: Ruling against Pension Reform 'Judicial Activism'
Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2012 - 2:59pm
Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, said a ruling against the law approved last year to require state employees to contribute to their pension would be the ultimate case of judicial activism."
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Obama Leads Among Hispanic Voters in Fox News Poll -- But Rubio as VP Would Help GOP
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 5, 2012 - 2:42pm
A poll from Fox News Latino found that President Barack Obama is doing very well with Hispanic voters but that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., would help Republicans cut into the Democrat incumbents lead with those voters.
Obama gets the approval of 73 percent of Hispanic voters and none of the leading Republican candidates get more than 14 percent against him in a head to head matchup.
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Judge Jackie Fulford to Return for Public Employee Retirement Hearing
Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2012 - 1:13pm
A hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday for attorneys for the state and public employees' union challenging a new requirement that state employees contribute to their retirement fund.
The hearing, before Judge Jackie Fulford, is the latest development in a case that was delayed last week while Fulford recuperated from injuries she sustained in a bicycle accident.
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Time Takes Another Cheap, Dismal Shot at Florida
Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2012 - 1:00pm
It's funny when it's not so pathetic.
It's actually funnier that it is so pathetic. You just have to get the joke.
In its newest, typically ignorant jeremiad against all things conservative, Time magazine takes aimat Florida for its cultural backwardness, allergy to education, and general religious mania "news pegged" on the passage of the inspirational message -- i.e., "school prayer but we can't call it that because somebody, somewhere might be offended" -- bill in the state Legislature.
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Marco Rubio is the Top Choice of Ohio Republicans for VP
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 5, 2012 - 12:36pm
A Suffolk University poll released on Monday finds that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is the top choice of likely Ohio Republican presidential primary voters to be the vice presidential candidate on the 2012 GOP ticket. The poll has Rick Santorum leading Mitt Romney in the primary on Tuesday.
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Rick Santorum Leads Mitt Romney by 4 Percent in Ohio Poll
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 5, 2012 - 12:26pm
On Monday, Suffolk University released a poll looking at the Ohio Republican presidential primary that shows that Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney in the Buckeye State which holds its primary on Tuesday. Other polls released on Monday have found a tight race and even a solid lead for Romney.
Santorum takes 37 percent in the poll of likely primary voters followed by Romney with 33 percent, Newt Gingrich with 16 percent, Ron Paul with 8 percent and 6 percent remain undecided.
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Rasmussen Finds Majority Wants to Repeal Obama Health-Care Law
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 5, 2012 - 11:38am
Rasmussen Reports unveiled a national poll on Monday that finds that a majority of likely voters want to repel the federal health-care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010.
The poll finds that 53 percent of those surveyed want to repeal the law while 42 percent oppose repealing it. The poll also find that almost three-quarters of those surveyed have strong opinions of the law -- 42 percent strongly favor repealing the law and 30 percent strongly favor keeping it in place.
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Newt Gingrich Leads in Rasmussen Poll of Georgia
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 5, 2012 - 11:29am
With 76 delegates on the line, Georgia ranks as the largest prize at stake on Super Tuesday -- and it looks like favorite son Newt Gingrich is headed for a victory in the Peach State. Gingrich has been leading in the polls of the state and he has focused on it.
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Chamber Praises Senate for Advancing Spaceport Bill to Scott
Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2012 - 11:14am
A bill that could help draw more space-related companies to Florida has advanced, with the support of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, to Gov. Rick Scott for final approval.
The Senate approved on final reading CS/HB 59, sponsored by Rep. Lake Ray, R-Jacksonville, which is designed to allow Space Florida, an independent special district created to advocate for Floridas space industry, to offer incentives to bring space-related businesses to the state.
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