Following her claim that the economy is on the "upswing," Democratic National Committee boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz is trying to pump up her party's coffers in Mississippi.
DWS's fundraising tour caught the attention of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who called the Democrats "frighteningly out of touch."
While DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in Mississippi today on behalf of the Mississippi Democratic Party, shell likely continue repeating her outlandish claims.
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While Gov. Rick Scott pledged that a new Race to the Top grant application will not burden Florida with additional costs or red tape (see this Sunshine State News article), the state reportedly will spend up to $17,500 of its current Race to the Top funds for nonacademic purposes Thursday night.
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Politico's top story of Thursday morning regales the woes of organized labor's political campaign fundraising as it limps into election year 2012.
The Robin Bravender story claims that unions have been slow to coordinate their spending strategy under the new campaign rules: "They dont appear to have clear fundraising goals. Many say theyre planning to stick with the same tactics theyve turned to in the past, even after a bruising 2010 election."
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Gov. Rick Scott has added Daniel J. Gerber, David P. Gillespie and Judge Clayton D. Simmons while reappointing Philip F. Nohrr to the 18th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission.
Nohrr, Gillespie and Simmons were each on the list of nominees submitted by the Florida Bar.
According to the release from the governor's office:
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Gov. Rick Perry of Texas released a Web video on Wednesday in which he takes aim at one of his chief rivals for the Republican presidential nomination -- former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. The ad slams Romney for being misleading on a number of issues including health care, his political experience and hiring illegal aliens.
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"Barack Obama's latest effort to tell the people of our nation he's actually created jobs is failing -- but that hasn't stopped him from pouring more corporate money into the campaign. Now, Obama is actively reaching out to the Hispanic community in hoping to convince them he is their friend."
Whoops! Change "Barack Obama" to "Rick Scott" and "nation" to "Florida," and you have the latest left-wing campaign against the governor. Florida Watch Action has launched a Spanish version of "Pink Slip Rick," complete with free bumper stickers reading "Ricky En Reversa."
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Walter Cronkite's longtime producer Leslie Midgley once wrote that, "News is what an editor decides it is." News today is what TV producers decide can help President Obama. News that hurts isn't news at all.
As the head of Florida's state university system, Frank Brogan will be integral to Gov. Rick Scott's efforts to implement higher education reforms.
The good news for Scott is that Brogan agrees with some of his critiques of higher education.
Brogan said the governor has made it clear he wants to start conversations about how to change higher education, and that Scott wants to "start them in a way that will assure there is change that comes as a result."
