U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race, launched a new television commercial on Tuesday morning, trying to offer a stark contrast between his record and that of Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation. For Meek to get back in the race, he needs to keep Democrats in his column--and away from Crist.
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A Gainesville minister plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, and he's taking heat for it from the U.S. military.
Pastor Terry Jones, head of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center, said, "We must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats."
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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says a floating museum in the Big Apple has the "inside track" to land a retired space shuttle.
Schumer may be full of hot air -- he often is -- but insofar as NASA's selection process gets politicized, it's impossible to count his home state out.
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Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Kendrick Meek described himself to an MSNBC "Morning Joe" audience Tuesday morning as a true David against two Goliaths. Apart from highlighting the differences between himself and his opponents, Republican opponent Marco Rubio and independent Gov. Charlie Crist, he re-established his I'm-a-nice-guy credentials by repeating sympathy for Rubio, whose father died during the weekend. There were no hardball questions.
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Of course, Loranne Ausley would never suggest she could do a better job than the candidate many Democrats want to see as Florida's next governor. But it's a logical conclusion after hearing her talk about all the wrongs she sees at the state Capitol, where current CFO, Alex Sink, was at the post.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott took aim at President Barack Obama on Monday for calling for $50 billion in new federal spending on infrastructure to put more Americans back to work -- and linked his Democratic rival, state CFO Alex Sink, to the increasingly unpopular administration.
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Another holiday, another chance for politicians to highlight their position on the issues.
With Labor Day upon us, politicians from both parties are talking about their plans to get Floridians back to work.
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Members of Congress and their staffs will slowly be making their way back to D.C. this coming week, in an effort to get prepared for a quick, short, fall session of the 111th Congress before the November elections.
An internal poll conducted for Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, shows him leading the 8th Congressional District field with 40 percent of the vote.
Republican nominee Daniel Webster had 27 percent while "others" pulled 23 percent in the survey. Eleven percent were undecided.
The "others" included Florida TEA Party's Peg Dunmire, No Party Affiliation candidate George Metcalfe, and Florida Whig Party hopeful Steve Gerritzen, who is running as a write-in.
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Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Wayne Smith told Sunshine State News he's off the November ballot because the state Division of Elections "lost my paperwork.
"I submitted three pieces of paper -- a lieutenant governor statement (naming Libertarian Party Chairman J.J. McCurry), a notarized financial disclosure plus my party loyalty oath -- and now (state officials) say they only have the latter two," Smith said.
Smith said he hand-delivered the documents to Tallahassee, as he did when he ran as a No Party Affiliation gubernatorial candidate in 2006.
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