Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman fired her latest volley over disgraced former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer being arrested. Current RPOF boss, Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, took some exception over Thurmans call for William Shepherd in Attorney General Bill McCollums office to recuse himself from the case. Thurman sent Thrasher a letter today and tried to link Republican leaders to Greer.
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Despite his long friendship and political working relationship with Gov. Charlie Crist, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux has made it clear he is staying within the Republican Party. LeMieux has ripped into President Barack Obamas response to the spill in the Gulf and has backed GOP candidate Marco Rubio for the U.S.
While Florida's East Coast ports maneuver to tie in with inland logistics centers, the state's largest cargo tonnage port keeps growing on the West Coast.
The Port of Tampa recently completed the latest phase of ongoing expansion at its container terminal, increasing the paved storage area from 25 acres to 40 acres.
With the national unemployment rate falling to 9.7 percent, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the leading Democratic candidate in the race for the U.S. Senate, is expressing some hope that the economy is coming around -- and he is praising the Obama stimulus package for the start of the turnaround and claims that the measure led to more than 153,000 jobs across Florida.
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Despite conventional wisdom holding that new independent gubernatorial candidate Bud Chiles would hurt the Democratic nominee more than the Republican one, GOP candidate Bill McCollums camp is tearing into Chiles.
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DEMS, GOP SPAR ON PROSECUTOR FITNESS
PBS station managers made a big push last year to drive any trace of "sectarian" Christianity out of the taxpayer-funded broadcasting system, banning any church services or religious lectures that appeared on a handful of stations. They ultimately compromised and banned any new church programming.
Continuing his stunning -- some say long overdue -- fall from grace, former state GOP chairman Jim Greer was assailed by a Republican National Committee spokesman on Thursday.
With Moodys Investor Services reporting today that American ports will continue to face economic challenges for the next 12 to 18 months, Gov. Charlie Crist signed a measure reforming regulation of Floridas 14 seaports today. Other states in the region, including Alabama, Virginia and Georgia, will revamp their ports for the expansion of the Panama Canal that will be complete in 2015.
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Warily watching Florida's 770 miles of Gulf coastline -- as well as the political polls -- Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday asked BP America's president to send $50 million more to the state.
"Due to the extensive nature of (the Deepwater Horizon oil spill), Florida's state agencies and local governments have incurred significant costs associated with planning and preparing for potential impacts," Crist wrote to Lamar McKay.
