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  • Crist has edge in Herald/Times Senate poll

    Charlie Crist's declaration of independence is paying off -- so far.

    The governor narrowly leads Florida's topsy-turvy U.S. Senate race, despite nearly half of the voters saying he made a "purely political'' decision to bolt the GOP and run as an independent candidate in the Nov. 2 general election, a new St. [...]

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  • Meek has to share teacher union support with Crist

    Team Meek has got to be fuming. The Florida Education Association decided today that instead of throwing its weight behind U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, who spearheaded the class-size amendment as a state lawmaker, that it would co-endorse him with Gov. Charlie Crist. The governor recently vetoed a bill that [...]

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  • Bob Graham: When the president asks you to do do something, you can't say no

    The former Florida governor and senator already has plenty on his plate, but said Saturday that he'd quickly said "yes" when President Obama's environmental aide, Carole Browner, called to ask if he'd co-chair a commission to investigate the spill in the Gulf.

    "This was so important, so immediate and [...]

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  • David Rivera: Arizona law would "absolutely not" solve illegal immigration problem

    State Rep. David Rivera, the Republican front runner in the race for U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart’s seat, said Saturday morning that Arizona’s controversial immigration law would “absolutely not” solve the illegal immigration problem.

    When WFOR-CBS 4 reporter Eliott Rodriguez asked on News & Views if Rivera supports or opposes the law, Rivera maintained that [...]

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  • Award by Lincoln Diaz-Balart's group baffles fellow lawmakers

    From Roll Call via Huffington Post: "House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence is receiving a leadership achievement award for his contributions to the Hispanic community, but nobody - including Pence - can seem to figure out why.

    "The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute is bestowing its 2010 public service award [...]
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  • Obama: Bob Graham is a "champion of the environment"

    Facing a growing furor over the month long Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the White House Friday named two environmentalists to lead a presidential commission investigating the disaster.

    The appointments of former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under [...]

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  • President Obama picks Florida's Bob Graham to co-chair presidential oil spill panel

    President Barack Obama plans to name former Florida Sen. Bob Graham to co-chair a presidential commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

    The commission is said to be similar to panels that investigated the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster and the nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island [...]

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  • Herald/Times poll finds governor's office up for grabs

    What kind of governor's race do you get when you take two buttoned-down politicians and add a rookie who splashes $6 million in television ads around the state?

    A neck-and-neck contest between Republican Bill McCollum and Democrat Alex Sink, a wild-card surge by Republican Rick Scott, and more than one-quarter of [...]

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  • LaMarca paints Keechl as leader of corrupt county

    The speech Chip LaMarca gave Thursday announcing his campaign against County Mayor Ken Keechl could become the basis for some interesting attack ads later this year. LaMarca is the former GOP chair -- Keechl is the Democratic commissioner from a northeast Broward district. Here are some of the juicier lines [...]

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  • Bill McCollum on Rick Scott, Rand Paul

    Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for governor as a Republican, dismissed the notion Friday that anti-incumbent feeling would steer voters toward outsider candidates like Republican Rick Scott.

     "I think the voters of Florida are going to look for integrity and experience," McCollum said before speaking to the [...]

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