Florida is hoping BP will cut it a check large enough to deal with the consequences of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day for close to a month. But it hasnt been exactly generous with its own funds used to keep Florida lands and waters free of oil.
Run for election and you're a lot more courageous than you know.
Ask Denis Neuhut. The former candidate for Bay Harbor Islands Town Council is about to find out whether he'll recover any of the money he used to fight the charge he violated the states campaign laws. And, by the way, it's a charge that was dismissed for "no probable cause" last year -- and all the accusations with it.
When it comes to parties, Karen Thurman is no Jim Greer. But spending by the Florida Democratic Party has rebounded solidly after the FDP's near-death experience in 2004.
Under FDP Chairman Thurman, the party spent $46.3 million from 2007-2009, according to internal financial reports.
With Gov. Charlie Crist leaving the Republican Party to continue his campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent, leaders at the national level warn Florida conservatives that Crist can't be trusted on the issues -- especially a measure requiring women considering abortions to have an ultrasound.
While the team at the Florida Family Policy Council has advocated for conservative issues, they have never directly entered the campaign arena -- until now. John Stemberger has announced that he will lead the Florida Family Action Pac to endorse and support candidates who share the organizations position against abortion and for traditional marriage.
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The Department of Environmental Protection today released Deepwater Horizon statistics and actions:
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If you want to watch someone squirm, take a look at the two-minute videotape of Attorney General Eric Holder dodging Republican Rep. Lamar Smith's question of whether "radical Islam" motivated the Times Square bomber.
The $70.4 billion state budget awaiting action by Gov. Charlie Crist is already looking like a museum piece a fattened brontosaurus of a spending plan whose future is threatened by a harsh new age.
The budget includes about $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money the last installment of $16 billion in Washington cash that flowed to Florida the past three years, allowing lawmakers to avoid major tax increases or the deepest spending cuts.
Residents of the Florda Keys, fearing impact from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, might want to cross their fingers and toes.
Researchers at the University of South Florida say the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico is flowing toward the loop current that could bring it to the Florida Keys and the state's eastern shores, if it hasn't entered the current already, the Press Association of the United Kingdom reports.
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