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• RPOF releases $7.3 million in AmEx statements

  The Republican Party of Florida released internal records Friday detailing $7.3 million in credit card charges made since 2007.

  The bulk of the credit card statements were detailed in previous Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times reports, but the documents included at least $2.5 million in newly disclosed expenses.

  Among the new charges: $95,296.80 that [...]

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• Liberals slam Obama over oil drilling in new ad

  The liberal political blog, Firedoglake.com, will air a new TV ad Washington next week, targeting President Obama's plans to expand offshore drilling "despite the unfolding BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

  The ad combines images of the exploding rig, oil slicks, and the "coming environmental disaster," with audio of Obama talking about expanding [...]

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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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