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• Poll shows Charlie Crist is political weathervane or man of people

  Most Florida voters want Gov. Charlie Crist to veto an abortion bill that he, too, appears to oppose. They're cool to oil drilling, just like the governor. And they support his decision to veto a controversial ``teacher-tenure'' bill that the Republican-controlled Legislature wanted signed into law to help reform education.

  Whether [...]

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• Paula Dockery calls it quits

  State Sen. Paula Dockery: It is with mixed feelings that I end my campaign to be your next governor. People who know me know I'm a tenacious fighter unafraid of long odds, especially when the stakes are so high. But I'm also a realist and understand the costs of effectively [...]

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• Florida AFL-CIO backs Luis Meurice -- not Joe Garcia like it did in 2008

  It turns out that when the unions in the South Florida AFL-CIO threw their support behind Luis Meurice last month, it was a sign of things to come.

  On Sunday, the statewide AFL-CIO -- Florida's largest union -- endorsed Meurice in the race for the 25th Congressional District. In 2008, [...]

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• Meek gets AFL-CIO endorsement to himself

  Florida's largest union, the AFL-CIO, is giving a "full'' endorsement to the leading Democratic candidate in the Senate race, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, says the Florida Democratic Party. Business as usual, you say, for the union to back the Democratic frontrunner? Not in the unpredictable 2010 election. Yesterday, the teachers union [...]

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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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