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• LeMieux buys $895,000 home in Broward

  From the Sun-Sentinel: U.S. Sen. George LeMieux is planting himself in Lighthouse Point, with the purchase a couple weeks ago of an $895,000 home. It's assessed for taxes at only $525,540 -- that number would be approximately 80 percent of the market value based on sales on that neighborhood -- which [...]

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• Rick Scott learns to salsa

      The key to winning over Miami's Cuban-American voters? Dominoes and salsa dancing.
  

      Rick Scott, the multi-millionaire gubernatorial candidate from Naples, got a lesson in both when he visited The Little Havana Activities Center on Tuesday. After speaking to the crowd of abuelos and abuelas through a translator ("I'm [...]

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• Bill McCollum's 2010 Jobs Tour (minus some details)

  

  Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican candidate for governor, used a plant tour in Tallahassee Tuesday morning to highlight his plan to improve Florida's jobs climate. He spent about 90 minutes at Danfoss Turbocor, which makes energy efficient oil-free compressors for air conditioners. Located in Innovation [...]

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• First AG candidate on air, Kottkamp aims at cop vote

  Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp became the first of Florida's 97 (ok, not that many) candidates for Florida attorney general to announce an ad buy. Featuring loads o' guns, it's heavy on the law-and-order stuff and doesn't seem misleading at first gander. C'mon, Jeff, step it up and start spinning. Seems' [...]
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• Greene trashes Meek in his own backyard

  Committing the political equivalent of a home invasion in broad daylight, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene stumped Monday afternoon in the needy Miami neighborhood represented in Congress by rival Kendrick Meek and his mother for almost two decades.

  Greene toured the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, visited the vacant lot [...]

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• Miami-Dade, still No. 1. At least when it comes to spending money on lobbying

  The Miami Herald reported last September that even as Miami-Dade faced its "most critical budget crisis in decades," the county was spending more money lobbying the federal government than any other county in the country.

  Some things never change. New data from the Center for Responsive Politics found that Puerto Rico, [...]

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• Bill McCollum to take stand in Greer criminal trial?

  Former RPOF chairman and accused fraudster Jim Greer announced plans to call Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum as a witness in his case (More here). Not much of a shock Greer would try to pressure one of "The Four Horsemen," whom the Florida Department of Law Enforcement seems [...]
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• Oil spill keeping Charlie Crist afloat

  
  

  
   
  

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• Scott to voters: 'Hey lighten up! I never got indicted!'

  That's Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen's take on Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, whose former health care company paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud. Hiaasen writes of Attorney General Bill McCollum and Scott: With the primary on the horizon, Republican voters will get to choose between one candidate who [...]

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• Breaking down Scott's $218 million net worth

  Rick Scott reported an eye-popping net worth of more than $218 million last month in forms filed with the state Division of Elections.

  But the Republican candidate for governor also has tens of millions of dollars tucked in a trust under his wife's name and in a family limited partnership. He [...]

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