Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN that she was hanging up her headphones at the end of the year. If she could not exercise her freedom of speech, she said, she was not interested in the job.
With all 120 House seats up in November, there were some dramatic results in the Tuesday primaries.
His U.S. Senate rivals -- Gov. Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek -- have posted recent videos of themselves giving speeches or talking on the news, but as far as actual ads go for the general election, Marco Rubio has pulled ahead.
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A combination of negative ads and poll-driven speculation in the media ate away at Rick Scott's double-digit lead in the Republican gubernatorial campaign and almost cost him the election.
Having defeated Robert Lowry and Donna Milo for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in November, restaurant owner Karen Harrington took aim at the incumbent and Democrats in Washington.
With the primary now behind us, it is time for us to unify as a party and advance our ideas, our principles, and the agenda that we believe is essential for restoring accountability and fiscal responsibility back to our federal government," said Harrington.
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Republicans and Democrats cast ballots in 10 state Senate districts across Florida Tuesday. While some incumbents faced primary challenges, all of them prevailed. And look for some different faces in the Senate -- even if they have familiar names.
In the afterglow of Rick Scott's "outsider" victory over Bill McCollum, TEA Party congressional candidate Peg Dunmire said she defended the former Columbia/HCA executive's record throughout the primary campaign.
"I witnessed the distortions that the McCollum camp used in their ads. I am a health-care professional, I understand the Medicare case and would like to remind all readers that the problems that were cited in the fraud case are the problems with government-run health care," said Dunmire, who is running in the 8th Congressional District.
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While U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw did not face a challenge in the Republican primary on Tuesday, he did spend the day touring farms and speaking to the Madison County Farm Bureau about taxes and the size and scope of the federal government. He offered harsh words for President Barack Obamas handling of the economy.
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Talk about a tiny turnout. The first-ever Libertarian primary in Florida drew a grand total of 68 voters in state House District 33.
The winner, Franklin Perez, garnered 49 votes to beat Ellen Paul, who drew 19.
Perez, who fashioned himself as the more doctrinaire Libertarian candidate, will face Republican Jason Brodeur and Democrat Leo Cruz in the general election.
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Yoooo-hoooo, George Bennett ... We're over here, we're over here!
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