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• Senate hires MacNamara as personnel advisor

  

  Sen. Mike Haridopolos, R-Melbourne, who's busy planning to take over the presidency in November, has made his first transition appointment: Steve MacNamara (right) .

  The former House chief of staff (under John Thrasher, now a senator), and a tenured professor at FSU, is advising Haridopolos on "personnel [...]

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• Kiser and Brise seek appointment to Public Service Commission

  Former state Sen. Curt Kiser, a Republican, and Miami Rep. Ron Brise, a Democrat, have submitted their applications for the Public Service Commission to fill one of two posts being vacated by the Senate's rejection of sitting commissioners David Klement and Benjamin "Steve" Stevens.

  Kiser was the olive branch candidate to become the [...]

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• Sansom appeal dismissed

  A judge has allowed grand theft charges against former House Speaker Ray Sansom to stand, moving the case of a $6 million airport building closer to trial.

  While the appropriation had to go through official channels, "that doesn't mean that the plan of the defendants was not possible," Circuit Judge Terry [...]

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• A Charlie Crist ag-bill veto conspiracy theory

  Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to veto a relatively non-controversial citrus-industry bill, HB981, has the ag community seeing some conspiracy. Ostensibly, the bill concerned citrus research, but it also included some property-tax language (background here) that Crist used as his grounds for vetoing the bill.

  "I have concerns about making [...]

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• Rasmussen poll shows Rubio lead

  Rasmussen poll: A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Florida finds Republican Marco Rubio with 39% support, while Crist earns 31% of the vote and Democrat Kendrick Meek trails at 18%. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.

  Two weeks ago, just after Crist announced that he was running as [...]

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• Jeb hosting Rubio fundraiser in Miami

  Jeb Bush is hosting his first Marco Rubio fundraiser Tuesday. Here's  THE INVITE

  -- ADAM C. SMITH

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• Jeb hosting Rubio fundraiser in Miami

  Jeb Bush is hosting his first Marco Rubio fundraiser Tuesday. Here's  THE INVITE

  -- ADAM C. SMITH

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• Greene goes after Meek's ties to developer charged with fraud

  Kendrick Meek's rival in the Democratic Senate primary, Jeff Greene, wasted little time before seizing on today's Miami Herald story showing his family's ties to an accused crook.

  Greene called for a House ethics investigation into the Miami congressman and sweeping ban on earmarked budget requests. Meek sought federal money [...]

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• Immigration debate comes back to haunt Mel Martinez

  

  The debate over Arizona's strict new immigration law is giving Mel Martinez -- the Republican senator from Florida who took early retirement last year -- an uncomfortable sense of deja vu.

  Martinez, the first Cuban American elected to the U.S. Senate, was at the center of [...]

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• Builder under cloud wooed Meek

   As U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek championed a proposed biopharmaceutical complex for Liberty City in 2003, his Miami chief of staff received $13,000 from the project's developer to help the aide buy a house, newly released police records show.

  The developer, Dennis Stackhouse, is now awaiting [...]

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