Former Agency for Health Care Adminstration Secretary Holly Benson, currently running in a close battle for the Republican attorney general nomination, endorsed Attorney General Bill McCollum over Rick Scott in the bitter contest to win the Republican gubernatorial nod.
Republicans in Florida can count on Bill McCollums unwavering, conservative credentials, said Benson. Just like Attorney General McCollum has stood up against Obamacare by leading the lawsuit against its implementation, he can be counted on to fight against Washington trampling on our state rights.
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Its a bit early for this, but Public Policy Polling released a new poll on Monday showing that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is leading the 2012 Republican presidential primary field by a whisker -- but there were three candidates right behind him, well within the margin of error. Huckabee pulled 23 percent, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 22 percent, and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin both tied for third at 21 percent.
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The April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster is far from over for Florida.
Vast concentrations of BP oil toxic to marine life may have settled to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico just off Panama City, according to a report due to be released later Tuesday.
Researchers from the University of South Florida, back Monday night from a fact-finding excursion in the Gulf, say they will release their report later Tuesday.
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Gallup released a poll late last week that found that only 25 percent of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers and 22 percent have that much faith in the television news.
With nearly all news organizations struggling to keep up with the up-to-the-minute news cycle and to remain profitable in the process, Americans' low trust in newspapers and television news presents a critical barrier to success, wrote Lymari Morales from Gallup.
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Reports are flying in that state CFO Alex Sink, the likely Democratic gubernatorial candidate, will announce on Thursday that she has picked former Sen. Rod Smith, who lost to former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2006, as her running mate for lieutenant governor. Smith, who has been the subject of speculation for weeks as the most likely choice to be Sinks understudy, hails from Alachua County in the northern part of the state. He also served two terms as a state attorney.
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Close to 1,000 South Floridians braved an August-hot, oxygen-starved gymnasium Monday for no other reason than to see and hear former President Bill Clinton deliver some of that old-time religion.
Gov. Charlie Crists U.S. Senate campaign is returning nearly $10,000 in contributions from indicted former state Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, who asked for the refund because he needs the money.
After stiffing jilted Republican donors, Gov. Charlie Crist is opening the pursestrings for his old pal, Jim Greer.
The longtime Crist protege and disgraced GOP chairman asked Crist in an Aug. 5 letter to return $9,600 in campaign contributions to help him pay his criminal defense bills.
Crist obliged Monday after Greer's letter surfaced in the St. Petersburg Times.
But the governor hasn't been so accommodating to other Republicans who contributed to his "independent" Senate campaign. Months ago, Crist glibly declared, "The money's been spent."
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There have been few politicians in Florida who backed President Barack Obamas support of a mosque being built two blocks away from Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan. Even Democrats like state CFO Alex Sink and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene have broken with the president -- and they have been joined at the national level by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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With former Rep. Loranne Ausley, the Democrat in the CFO race, on the attack against Senate President Jeff Atwater, the Republican candidate, for backing expensive projects, the Republican Party of Florida is going on the counterattack.
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