With an oil rig exploding off the coast of Louisiana on Tuesday, opponents of offshore oil exploration are arguing this latest incident shows the hazards drilling poses to the environment as well as the physical threat it poses. Leading the charge? Former Tallahassee Mayor Scott Maddox, who is running to be state's next commissioner of agriculture and consumer services U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, who will likely take on Maddox in the race, continues to gain friends -- he has one of the fastest growing Facebook sites in Congress and had the fourth fastest growing site of all members of Congress...
Jacksonville Beach attorney Scott Fortune has declared his candidacy to challenge U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown in the Democratic primary. While Brown spent more than $70,000 more than she raised in the first quarter of 2010, she is still a heavy favorite to win reelection Conservative businessman Rick Scott will be running for governor as a political outsider, but he certainly has no qualms about hiring political insiders for his campaign. Susie Wiles, a veteran political strategist best known for guiding Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton, has been named Scotts campaign manager.
The SEC is accusing Miami Beach businessman Nevin Shapiro of leading a $900 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro has ties to both political parties, giving to the Republican Party of Florida as well as Kendrick Meek. Shapiro is also a generous supporter of the University of Miamis athletics program Former Naples City Manager Richard Woodruff has been named to the same post in Jacksonville, NC...
Longtime NAACP activist Richard Burton and civil rights veteran J.T. Johnson will be leading efforts to create a civil rights museum in St. Augustine, where some of the more dramatic moments of the civil rights struggle took place in the summer of 1964. Also leading the efforts in Sen. Tony Hill Sid Dinerstein, chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, is urging Gov. Charlie Crist to pull out of the Senate race and focus on taking on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012.
Despite having served two terms as mayor of Key West, Morgan McPherson is having a hard time raising funds for his bid to knock off incoming House Minority Leader Ron Saunders. McPherson hauled in $14,600 in the first quarter of 2010, compared to the $38,250 that Saunders raised. That is all the money McPherson has, while Saunders has brought in almost $121,000. While the Republican Party of Florida has sent McPherson more than $1,300 and would love to knock off Saunders, Republicans in Tallahassee are no longer as optimistic as they were when session began that they can defeat Saunders.
