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• PolitiFact Florida: Fact-checking Romney's Spanish TV ad

  A Spanish-language TV ad from Mitt Romney starts off with a question for South Florida voters:  "Who supports Barack Obama?"
  
  The ad provides three notorious answers: Chávez, Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
  
  The Miami Herald translated the ad, "Chávez Por Obama," which aired on three Spanish-language TV stations on Oct. [...]

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• PolitiFact: Did Mack ask for stimulus money?

  Make no mistake, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, opposes the federal stimulus.

  He’s decried President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which poured $787 billion into the economy, a "waste of money" and a move "to ignore the will of the American people."
  
  He’s released [...]

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• Bill Clinton: "I'm not sure there are 81 communists left in Cuba."

  Former President Bill Clinton campaigned today for Democrat Patrick Murphy and mocked Republican Congressman Allen West in the northern fringes of South Florida. But what Clinton said there might not play so well farther south, in Miami-Dade.

  At the center of Clinton's shtick: West's comment that there are 81 communist Democrats [...]

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• Mr. 305 joins the Prez in the 954: Miami rapper Pitbull slated to appear with Obama in Hollywood, FL

  We're hearing that Miami native/rap sensation Pitbull is scheduled to appear with President Obama at his Sunday Hollywood reelection rally. That's one way to pack 'em in.

  It seems that Pitbull, aka Mr. 305/Mr. Worldwide (Armando Cristian Pérez, to be exact), might also be Mr. Bipartisan. He, or someone much [...]

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• PolitiFact checks Allen West ad about Patrick Murphy and the Miami-Dade SAO

  he battle between U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Palm Beach Gardens, and Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy has featured dueling ads in which they portray each other as criminals.
  
  And now West has reloaded his attack with a dramatic ad that suggests that when Murphy was arrested when he was a college freshman [...]

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• Had John McCain won Florida, Scott Rothstein would have taken part in the Electoral College

  It's Florida in an election year, so it's not implausible that the fate of U.S. democracy will depend on Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime or state Sen. Anitere Flores.

  Monestime and Flores are both presidential electors nominated by their parties -- Monestime by the Democrats, Flores by the Republicans -- to represent [...]

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• Former Miami mayor Diaz in Spanish-ad pushback: Romney's "exploiting the suffering" of Cubans

  One of Miami-Dade's better-respected and least-partisan of politicians, former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, cut a Spanish-language ad for the Obama campaign pushing back on a Romney campaign ad that features favorable statements about the president that were made by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro's niece.

  Diaz is a [...]

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• Bondi, Legislature reach deal on $300 million in foreclosure money

  Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that her office has reached a deal with the Florida Legislature over how to use $300 million in foreclosure settlement money that has sat dormant since March amidst negotiations over spending authority.

  One-fifth of the money, about $60 million, could be approved in the coming weeks for [...]

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• No criminal charges for former Miami Beach lawmaker in 'sexxy mama' text scandal

  Richard Steinberg, the former Miami Beach state representative, will not face criminal charges for sending creepy and harassing anonymous text messages to a married federal prosecutor.

  He resigned from office in February after The Miami Herald reported he was under investigation for sending dozens of “inappropriate and unsolicited” text messages to [...]

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• No criminal charges for former Miami Beach lawmaker in 'sexxxy mama' text scandal

  Richard Steinberg, the former Miami Beach state representative, will not face criminal charges for sending creepy and harassing anonymous text messages to a married federal prosecutor.

  He resigned from office in February after The Miami Herald reported he was under investigation for sending dozens of “inappropriate and unsolicited” text messages to [...]

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