Florida CFO and gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink today renewed her call for five statewide televised debates and stressed the need for Rick Scott to participate in the Spanish-language debate being hosted by Univision on Oct. 8.
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Former Rep. Dennis Ross, the Republican candidate to take U.S. Rep. Adam Putnams seat in Congress, announced on Friday that he won the endorsement of one of the most prominent Republican leaders of the last two decades and a possible presidential candidate in 2012 -- former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Assorted Tea and "9/12" patriot groups this week called for Libertarian candidate Alex Snitker to quit the U.S. Senate race. The groups reasoned that Snitker would drain votes from Republican Marco Rubio.
Snitker has no plans to pull out, and the state's only officially registered political tea party, the Florida TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party, wants him to stay in.
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A few hours after announcing he was planning to cancel the Quran-burning event scheduled Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville announced he is reconsidering the cancellation.
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville announced late on Thursday that he was reconsidering canceling the Quran-burning event that was scheduled to be held on Saturday. Instead, he said it was only suspended.
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Backers of a constitutional amendment that would put land-use changes before voters began airing a tough-toned web advertisement that says the measure is needed because Florida leads the nation in corruption among public officials.
With insight to read political tea leaves, who better than lobbyists to explain how and why the 2010 midterm elections are shaking the current political structure?
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CNN read a statement from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is leading efforts to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York saying he had not heard anything about moving his mosque in exchange for Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville quashing an event to burn Qurans on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of those terrorist attacks.
Jones countered by telling the media that, while he has not spoken to Abdul Rauf, he assumed the deal was still in place and would prepare to head to New York on Saturday.
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Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville announced late Thursday afternoon that he is canceling the Quran-burning event scheduled for Saturday -- and added that a deal is in place to move a mosque farther away from its planned site a block and a half from where the World Trade Center stood.
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville announced late Thursday afternoon that he was canceling the Quran-burning event scheduled for Saturday. Jones said he agreed to cancel the event to commemorate the 9/11 attacks because a mosque that was being planned a block and a half away from the site of the attacks was being moved.
We have thought it over many times, said Jones. We felt very convinced that we should do this.
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