Gov. Charlie Crist is hinting that he may veto a measure passed by the Legislature in the last days of the session requiring ultrasounds be performed for pregnant women considering abortions in the first trimester.
Conservatives are contacting the governor, encouraging him to sign the measure. Florida Right to Life and Florida Family Action, a group affiliated with the Florida Family Policy Council, are asking their backers to contact the governor.
Florida Republicans are also helping that the newly independent governor signs the measure.
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With the session over, Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, wants to focus on his responsibilities as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida as well as his legislative ones.
Having taken over the RPOF after a number of financial scandals under previous chairman Jim Greer, Thrasher now heads the party as it responds to Gov. Charlie Crist leaving Republican ranks to continue his bid for the U.S. Senate as an independent.
Gov. Charlie Crist -- like his buddy, Arizona "Maverick" John McCain -- is a media confection. He has been the kind of Republican the NAACP and St. Pete Times editorial board get equally tingly about.
With Gov. Charlie Crist bailing out of the Republican party to continue his campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent, it comes as no surprise that former Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed Marco Rubios bid for the Senate. Bush and Rubio are close allies going back to their time in Tallahassee together.
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An explosion on a BP oil rig last month that has resulted in the biggest oil spill in recent history has spurred at least eight lawsuits in federal court from Panhandle residents whose livelihoods could be upended by the spill.
Commercial fishermen, real estate executives, beach front property owners and restaurateurs have all filed suit against BP, in addition to rig owner TransOcean and contractor Haliburton Energy Services.
Under fire from both Democrats and Republicans, the ever-sunny Gov. Charlie Crist is turning into the most ridiculed man in the state Capitol.
But he also remains the most powerful. As long as Crist is in the governors office, he commands the states biggest political stage and can, as late Gov. Lawton Chiles once said, put the ball in play every day..
Polls, polls, everywhere polls for the most dramatic political race Florida has seen since George Smathers knocked Claude Pepper out of the U.S. Senate.
McLaughlin and Associates released a poll that shows independent Gov. Charlie Crist with 33 percent followed by Republican Marco Rubio at 29 percent and Democrtaic Congressman Kendrick Meek with 15 percent.
A poll that Rasmussen Reports took yesterday mirrors the McLaughlin one. Crist was at 38 percent with Rubio at 34 percent and Meek at 17 percent.
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Blaming "past decisions to end the Space Shuttle program," President Barack Obama followed through with his pledge to create a task force to bolster Florida's sagging Space Coast.
The White House's announcement was alternately welcomed and derided by the region's congressional delegation.
The Seminole casino compact approved by the 2010 Legislature could deliver up to $1.2 billion to the state's coffers over the next five years, but the back story on the deal makes that jackpot look like an ill-gotten gain. And some say the state got hosed.
While billionaire Jeff Greene has been in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate for less than a week, he has already shaped the race tremendously --forcing Congressman Kendrick Meek to focus on his new rival instead of on newly independent Gov. Charlie Crist or former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee.
