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• Sink calls Crist run against Scott "a disaster"

  "There are only two top-tier Democrats considering a run for governor, Charlie Crist and Alex Sink, and Sink sounds unlikely to do it."

  "Without a husband, without the person that I relied on the most to shore me up and give me good advice. That's changed. That's changed everything," Sink told [...]

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• "A tea partier's dream come true"

  Robyn E. Blumner writes that "a new face doesn't improve bankrupt ideas."

  One of those ideas is the undermining of public schools. Under the guise of helping lower-income parents, Rubio is offering the Educational Opportunities Act to move students from public to private schools, most of which are church-affiliated, at' [...]

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• Florida's Hispanic population rose 62 percent from 2000 to 2011

  "A new national survey shows that the Hispanic population in the U.S. rose 47 percent from 2000 to 2011 and that the rate of growth in Florida was even higher — 62 percent."

  The Pew Research Hispanic Center in Washington, a respected demographic research institute, found that the Hispanic population in [...]

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• Attack on public employee pensions on hold

  "House Speaker Will Weatherford's push to close the state's $136 billion pension system to new state employees is on hold. A report released Friday was supposed to provide an estimate of how much the change would cost to pay out benefits to the employees currently in the system while switching" [...]
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• Actually, it was THAT funny

  The Rubio laff riot continues: "David Letterman takes aim at Sen. Rubio’s water gaffe in top 10 list".

  The New Yorker's Ian Crouch has perhaps the best take on "Rubio's parched performance and water-seeking squat":

  By the second minute of Marco Rubio’s official Republican response to the President’s State [...]

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• RPOF rejoicing that Greer didn't air their dirty laundry

  Scott Maxwell: "So Jim Greer pleaded guilty — and now the former chair of the Republican Party of Florida probably will slink quietly away to prison."

  This allows Republicans to publicly crow about what a bum he was while privately rejoicing that he didn't air their dirty laundry.

  Mowever, as Maxwell points' [...]
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• Greer affair exposes questions about Crist and Rubio

  The Tampa Tribune editors point out that "there is more to this case than Greer's criminal behavior. Much more."

  All Floridians — especially Republicans, fund-raisers and campaign contributors — deserve a full accounting of what happened. The party should reveal all that happened — not continue to simply blame everything on [...]

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• Rubio embarrasses himself again, this time about climate change

  Now that Marco Rubio is strutting the national stage, the rest of the country is beginning to see what Floridians have always known: Marco Rubio is not ready for prime time, and probably never will be.

  Astronomer Phil Plait writes in Slate that "Picking out one United States" [...]

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• Romance over between Florida Republicans and tea-party

  "The romance between Florida Republicans and various tea-party groups, which reached its zenith when Gov. Rick Scott unveiled his first state budget to a tea-party crowd in 2011, has clearly cooled. And tea-party activists are feeling left out — if not spurned."

  The past seven months have not been kind to [...]

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• Rubio recycles "ideas he denounced when running for the Senate as tea party darling"

  Rhonda Swan: "If the principles for immigration reform that Sen. Marco Rubio has been touting all over TV and talk radio this week sound familiar, it's because you've heard them before."

  That's not to say the proposals aren't valid, they just aren't new.

  You wouldn't know that, though, the way Rubio [...]

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