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• Rubio on AZ immigration law, then and now

  THEN: On April 27 in West Miami, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio said of a new Arizona law that makes the failure to carry immigration documents a crime. "That's not really something that Americans are comfortable with, the notion of a police state,'' he said.

  The law also gives the police sweeping powers to [...]

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• State Department releases who has offered to help clean up the spill

  After refusing to tell reporters which countries had offered to help the U.S., the State Department last night sent around an email listing them: Canada, France, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Korea, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

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• What Crist would lose if he gave back GOP money

  From the Center for Responsive Politics:

  Infuriated Republicans -- chief among then Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) -- are calling on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to return campaign donations made to him by Republican interests. Crist announced Thursday that he's bolting the Republican party to run as an independent candidate in Florida's [...]

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• Haridopolos: Time to 'permanently table' any discussion of drilling for Florida oil

  Florida's future legislative leaders spent Thursday on an aerial tour of the Gulf of Mexico and the massive oil spill making its way toward Florida shores and, in the strongest words yet, said they won't be pursuing oil drilling anytime soon.

  "At the very minimum, we are going to permanently table this issue,'' [...]

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• Obama administration puts the chill on Virginia drilling plans, enviros rejoice

  The Interior Department says it's "temporarily postponing" three public hearings scheduled this month on its plan for expanding drilling off the Virginia coastline.

  The agency says it's scrapping the hearings for now "so that information from the ongoing review of OCS safety issues that the President has directed can be [...]

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• Crist says he'll decide next week on special session, Rs say its pandering

  After at meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Pensacola Thursday, Gov. Charlie Crist repeated his interest in calling a special session to deal with oil drilling, but said a decision is not imminent.

  "There is a possibility of a special session dealing with this issue,'' Crist told reporters in Pensacola [...]

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• Poll: Most Americans still support oil drilling, most Floridians now oppose

  With oil reaching its first landfall today after the massive oil leak in the Gulf, most U.S. voters -- 58 percent --still favor domestic offshore oil drilling, but support in Florida has fallen dramatically according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports.

  The national telephone survey found that while 58 percent [...]

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• Poll: Most Americans still support oil drilling, support in Florida drops

  With oil reaching its first landfall today after the massive oil leak in the Gulf, most U.S. voters -- 58 percent --still favor domestic offshore oil drilling, but support in Florida has fallen dramatically according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports.

  The national telephone survey found that while 58 percent [...]

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• Rothstein paid $100k a year to 'fancy check collector'

  When Cheryl Seinfeld was laidoff from the Republican Party of Florida as the finance director a couple years ago, the politically-connected attorney Scott Rothstein scooped her up in a matter of days.

  His offer: $100,000 a year to serve as the director of governmental relations for his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler firm [...]

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• Mason-Dixon poll concludes Crist's lead is short-lived

  Gov. Charlie Crist's early lead as an independent candidate in the U.S. Senate race is a "proverbial house of cards,'' according to a new poll, because support from Democratic and black voters is unlikely to hold up through the Nov. 2 election.

  The Mason-Dixon poll released Thursday found Crist receiving 38 [...]

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