Who's a better leader? The person who's a team player and uses her vote to advance the party's agenda, or the one who stands his ground and votes independently, but is sometimes on the outside of party leadership decisions.
Late Friday, House Speaker Larry Cretul, R-Ocala, ripped into Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott. Cretul backs Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican nomination.
The Scott campaign responded on Saturday, focusing more on McCollum than Cretul.
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The Florida newspapers owned by the New York Times Media Group and the University of South Florida Polytechnic in Lakeland conducted a new poll that found Gov. Charlie Crist holding a solid lead in the U.S. Senate race come November. The poll had Crist, who is running without party affiliation, leading former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican candidate in the race, up by a larger margin than other recent polls.
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Earlier this week Jeff Greene took aim at U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, his chief rival in a bitter battle for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate election, noting that the congressman was included as part of a roster of corrupt candidates listed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). CREW looked at Greenes record -- and promptly put him on the list along with Meek.
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House Speaker Larry Cretul, R-Ocala, has not been front and center in the bitter Republican gubernatorial primary between Rick Scott and Attorney General Bill McCollum. But Cretul, a backer of McCollum, emerged to take a shot at Scott late Friday.
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In conjunction with a Harrisburg, Pa.-based public-opinion polling firm, Sunshine State News will release the results and analyses of its first two Florida Republican primary polls on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A federal appeals court dealt a severe blow Friday to Republican gubernatorial contender Bill McCollum blocking a key portion of the states public campaign finance law which has already steered $1.7 million in taxpayer cash to his underfinanced campaign.
With Sen. Alex Villalobos, R-Miami, retiring due to term limits, Rep. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, has mustered an impressive campaign to take his place. Having raised just under $576,000 and spent more than $200,000, Flores has cleared the deck of all serious challengers while still keeping an impressive war chest intact.
Representing parts of Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas counties, Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, looked vulnerable at the end of the first quarter of 2010. Shehad only raised more than $44,000 and spent more than $20,000 of that. Yet, despite the unimpressive fund-raising, Joyner is headed back to the Senate for a second term without any November opposition.
While the political spotlight remains on the close and dramatic contests for the governorship and the open U.S. Senate seat, a number of intriguing contests are shaping up for Florida Senate seats in both primaries and in the general election.
