Republican Rick Scott, who has already pumped almost $55 million of his own money into his campaign to become Floridas next governor, released three years of federal and state tax returns Friday night.
U.S. military personnel serving outside the United States would be eligible for an additional property tax break under a proposed constitutional amendment facing voters Nov. 2.
Gov. Charlie Crist threw the opening pitch for game two of the ALDS game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Texas Rangers. Probably not his finest athletic moment.
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Rep. David Rivera of Miami, who is the Republican nominee for the congressional seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, chimed in on Friday afternoon on a report from the U.S. Department of Labor showing almost 100,000 jobs were lost in September.
When congressional Democrats passed the nearly $1 trillion stimulus 19 months ago, they told us that it would create millions of jobs, said Rivera. Instead, nearly 3 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus passed, and unemployment has hovered near 10 percent nationwide.
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Over the years, political candidates have taken attempted to gain some attention by crossing Florida. Lawton Chiles, who was virtually unknown, made headlines by walking across the state in his successful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1970. In 1916, gubernatorial candidate Sidney Catts gained attention by driving across the state in his Model T Ford.
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The current national mood ahead of the midterm elections is unfavorable for Democrats across the country. While thats true for many parts of Florida, Senate District 14 isnt one of them.
Stuck in third place in the polls and confronting whispers he will pull out of the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Kendrick Meek increased the pace of his campaign Friday, a clear effort to dampen talk that he will pull the plug on his campaign.
Websites and organizations of every description are looking to draft former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, who now hosts a morning news show on MSNBC, into what probably will be a crowded field gunning for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
The Democratic Party fashions itself as a party of the people. In Florida, those people include plenty of big-time trial lawyers.
Democratic attorney general candidate Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach launched his first television ad of the general election on Friday -- directing an attack against Republican opponent Pam Bondi.
The ad looks to link Bondi, who has served almost 20 years in the state attorneys office in Tampa, to corruption in Tallahassee.
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