The campaign team of Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running in the U.S. Senate election, posted a poem written by James Tokley, the poet laureate of Tampa, entitled The Peoples Independent.
What Party is Democracy
And by what other name
May the Friends of this Republic
Reconstruct the name they claim?
What politic shall we ascribe
To the words of F. Scott Key,
When he awoke to find that our
new nation was still free?
When Jefferson said, We do believe
Mankind is born the same,
What Democrat or Republican stood
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Who knew Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi had so much in common? As partisan politicians who shore up their respective party bases, the former Alaska governor and the U.S. House speaker are mirror images -- in reverse.
With less than a month to go until the general election, the dynamics are changing in the election for the U.S. Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the race, is turning his fire away from NPA-candidate Charlie Crist, and onto Republican candidate Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race.
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a new television commercial on Tuesday attacking state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee for governor. The commercial focuses on banks that Sink worked for -- and the fraud charges they faced.
Alex Sinks bank was fined millions for deceptive sales practices in her own bank branches and she claims she didnt know they were going on, said Dan Conston, a spokesman for the RPOF. Was she involved in the marketing and operations of the scam or did she not know what was going on in the lobbies of her Florida branches?
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Fading in the polls behind Republican candidate Marco Rubio, Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running in the U.S. Senate election without party affiliation, unleashed a new commercial attacking his Republican rival on Social Security. The ad maintains that Rubio will cut Social Security in order to balance the budget.
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With less than a month to go until the general election, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate race, is turning his fire away from Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation, onto Republican candidate former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race.
Since winning the nomination, Meek has hammered Crist, looking to keep Democrats from voting for the governor.
Now with Rubio ahead by double digits in the polls, Meek focused his attacks onto the Republican.
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The campaign team of Democratic gubernatorial candidate state CFO Alex Sink responded to three Republican Latino members of Congress endorsing her Republican opponent on Monday.
"This is yet another illustration of divisive partisan politics," said Kyra Jennings, a spokeswoman for Sink. "Republicans are desperate to salvage their power and save their own jobs. This has nothing to do with what's in the best interest of Floridians and who will do best by them."
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In 2008 Florida's pension system, fourth largest in the country, was 100 percent funded. In fact Florida was one of only four states in such an enviable position.
No longer.
A consulting actuary for Milliman, Inc., told the Florida Retirement System Actuarial Assumption Estimating Conference Monday that the state is good for only 87.9 percent of the money it promised its retirees -- that's a worsened number, down from 89.3 percent last year.
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Florida's public school officials complain about tight budgets, but even a recession didn't keep districts from adding staff.
While the Sunshine State was losing population and shedding jobs in record numbers, school systems filled 10,985 new positions between 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.
The figures compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics reveal that K-12 employment rose from 329,726 to 340,711.
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A Rick Scott ad debuting Tuesday lists a litany of fines against "Alex Sink's bank." Among them:
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