Welcome to The Dean's List -- an Ed Dean-style look at who Florida's political achievers were (and weren't) in the last seven days. What you see here is strictly my opinion, not necessarily the editor's or the rest of the staff at Sunshine State News.
THOSE WHO MADE THE LIST
Embattled Republican Congressman Dan Webster returned to Tallahassee Tuesday as congressional redistricting threatens to end his lengthy time on the Florida political stage.
With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Cuba later this week as the Obama administration continues to push normalization with that nation, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, is urging him to meet with activists fighting for democracy and against the Castro regime.
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Martin County School Board member Rebecca Negron unveiled the support of several Republican leaders as she continues her bid for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., who is running for the U.S. Senate.
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This week, Inside Gov ranked U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., as one of the least effective representatives in Congress, leading the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) to fire away as he continues his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
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Calling it a “rigged system” and vowing to fight for political reform, Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig announced he was exploring running for the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday.
With news that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has denied more than 35,000 combat veterans their benefits due to a clerical error, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., now running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, doubled down on his calls for reform.
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The so-called "debates," among too many Republicans to have a debate, are yet another painful sign of how much words and ideas have degenerated in our times.
No one expects these televised sound bites and "gotcha" questions to be anything like the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates on the momentous national issue of slavery.
When Fulham Football Club's Matt Smith headed home a goal against Cardiff on Saturday, cameras were immediately focused on the center forward as he wheeled away from the goal to celebrate.
More than 4,000 miles away, officials from Visit Florida, the state's tourism-marketing arm, were smiling.
Stamped in blue across Smith's predominately white away soccer jersey --- in photos picked up by the BBC, the Guardian and the Daily Mail --- was the name Visit Florida.
