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  • Crist: No special session next week, "still trying" to persuade House

    In an hour-long appearance with the Miami Herald editorial board Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Crist said he's ruled out a special legislative session next week to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot banning oil drilling 10 miles off Florida's coast but is still hoping to call one.

    "I'd rather do it sooner [...]

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  • Benson gets support from Crist loyalists, others

    Republican Holly Benson named her money team Wednesday in her bid for attorney general. Benson, a former agency head in the Charlie Crist administration, attracted some familiar supporters of her previous boss, including uber-lobbyist Brian Ballard and Pinellas County's Paul Jallo. Other bold names: supporting her: Sen. Joe Negron and [...]

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  • Sean Penn misses Cannes for Haiti

    Reports say actor Sean Penn is missing the premiere of his new film at Cannes to testify before the Senate about his work in Haiti.

    A pair of reading glasses perched on his nose, Penn urged senators to keep a focus on Haiti: "From President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of [...]

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  • Florida congressional delegation gets a Gulf spill briefing

    Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft told a worried Florida congressional delegation today that oil from the massive Gulf spill has entered the loop current -- pulling it on a collision course with Florida.

    "What's changed today is that the oil is in the loop current,'' Zukunft, director of response policy, told Florida [...]

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  • Coast Guard: Tar balls washing up in Key West are not from Deepwater spill

    The U.S. Coast Guard is now reporting that the tar balls collected from several state parks in the Keys don't match the type of oil spewing from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and are not related. The speculation is they are among the results of underwater seeps. tanker leaks and other common reports [...]

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  • Rick Scott's no-sense-of-humor ad

    Memo to Rick Scott. If you want to bash someone for having a sense of humor in an ad, you might want to reconsider running it during a comedy show. The Republican for governor probably didn't intend to do that during Saturday Night Live when he ran his latest spot' [...]

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  • Does McCollum need to rat on Rekers in court?

    The New York Times raises the question of whether Attorney General Bill McCollum is obilgated to notify the court in Florida's gay adoption case about the scandal involving expert witness-turned-rentboy-patron George Rekers. Story here.

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  • Meek hasn't closed deal in Dem stronghold of Broward Cty

    Squeezed between a newly independent Gov. Charlie Crist and an aggressive new Democratic rival in the U.S. Senate race, Kendrick Meek faces unexpected and formidable foes in the fight for Florida's biggest pot of Democratic voters: Broward County.

    With its 544,000 registered Democrats, Broward looms as a battleground and one of [...]

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  • For Crist, first came the hug, now it's the wink

    U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is having some fun with a video taken by intrepid St. Petersburg Times political editor Adam C. Smith at Charlie Crist's campaign headquarters opening. Watch it here:

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  • Where are Marco Rubio's tax returns?

    Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio's financial disclosure form and tax returns will be available "soon,'' says campaign spokesman Alex Burgos. Disclosure form was due yesterday. Major rivals Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist have posted personal financial information here and here. 

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