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• MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

  Miami-Dade Commission gives unions a choice on cuts

  The Miami-Dade Commission gave unions a choice on how to reduce pay to balance the county budget.
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  MIAMI MAYORAL RACE | JOE SANCHEZ

  Ties to incumbent may hurt Miami mayoral candidate Joe Sanchez

  City Commissioner Joe Sanchez's alliance with the current Miami mayor has contributed to Sanchez's underdog status in the polls.

• Democrats brace for end of Virginia winning streak

  The Democrats' decade-long push into Virginia — a national bragging point that they were moving into the once-solid Republican South — may be coming to an end. Polls suggest that the GOP could win the Virginia governor's office on Nov. 3, a year after Barack Obama carried the state.

• California's GOP governor candidates have contributed to Democratic campaigns

  Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell constitute the entire GOP gubernatorial field to become California's next governor. In the past, all three have made contributions to Democratic candidates, a fact that has some Republicans wondering where their candidates' loyalties really lie.

• Perry vs. Hutchison might cause rift in Texas GOP

  Texas Democrats watching the state's top two Republicans fight for their party's gubernatorial nomination are glad that Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have apparently abandoned the Republicans' 11th Commandment, established during Ronald Reagan's run for California governor in 1966: Thou shall not speak ill of another Republican. And they hope that the GOP gubernatorial battle creates enough division within the party to help Democrats in the general election and for years to come.
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  FLORIDA PAROLE COMMISSION

  Gov. Charlie Crist's refusal to fund parole board contradicts policy

  Gov. Crist balks at a request to increase funding for the state parole commission, even though he has championed the streamlining of restoration of civil rights for ex-felons.

• POLITICS

  Senate hopeful Maurice Ferre questions transport post

  As he runs for the U.S. Senate, former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre sits on the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority.

• U.S. SENATE RACE

  Marco Rubio has cut Charlie Crist's lead in GOP Senate race by half

  Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has gained ground on Gov. Charlie Crist for the vacated U.S. Senate seat, but Crist's huge head start may prove too much to overcome.

• FLORIDA POLITICS

  Poll says Rubio gaining on Crist for Senate

  Turning a romp into a race, U.S. Senate contender Marco Rubio has cut Gov. Charlie Crist's lead in half in a new Quinnipiac University poll.

• POLITICS

  Obama's next Florida visit won't be featuring Gov. Charlie Crist

  President Barack Obama will make his second trip to Florida as president next week, but don't expect Gov. Charlie Crist to join him this time.

  Obama's last trip -- to Fort Myers on Feb. 10 -- came as he was pitching his economic stimulus plan. At the time, the Republican governor's embrace of the $787 billion spending plan earned him the wrath of fiscal conservatives.

• TALLAHASSEE

  Crist's chief of staff stepping down to work on Senate campaign

  Eric Eikenberg, Charlie Crist's chief of staff, will step aside next month to devote his time to the governor's U.S. Senate race.

• Senators ask Obama to review personality-disorder discharges

  At issue is whether the Pentagon is avoiding treating soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder by claiming they had a personality disorder before they were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan and discharging them from the military. Four senators wrote Obama this week, remding him that as a senator he fought for better mental-health care for troops.

• S.C. GOP chairmen apologize for using Jewish stereotype

  Two county Republican Party chairmen have apologized for using a Jewish stereotype in a newspaper column, and S.C. GOP Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd said that's enough for the two leaders to keep their positions. Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr. were writing to defend U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint's opposition to congressional earmarks.

• GUBERNATORIAL RACE

  State CFO Alex Sink painted as silent on tough issues

  Republican Bill McCollum's campaign for governor says Democratic rival Alex Sink is ducking tough issues.

• MIAMI MAYORAL RACE

  Anti-incumbent feelings colors Miami mayoral race

  With the Nov. 3 election coming into focus, the two candidates running for Miami mayor have made their message clear. But whose pitch will sell with voters -- and what impact will the current mayor have on the race?

• BROWARD COUNTY

  Political Beat

  Broward County Commissioner Ken Keechl, leading all commission candidates in fundraising, appears to be the only one paying for a campaign office.

• MIAMI MAYORAL RACE

  Tomás Regalado leads in Miami mayoral race, poll shows

  Polling of two Miami districts reveal Tomás Regalado with a lead in his bid for mayor -- and indicate runoffs could come for the two commission seats.

• Democrats' ethics problems spark GOP election hopes

  New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, the powerful chairman of the tax-writing House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, is feeling the heat from Republican efforts to make him a symbol of Democratic Party ethical wrongdoing, an issue that the GOP hopes will help it regain a sizeable number of seats in next year's mid-terms elections.

• Gov. Crist seems unfazed by slip in approval rating, Senate polls

  Maybe it was the circular fan that's always at his feet. But if Gov. Charlie Crist is worried about his Senate bid, he didn't sweat it during Thursday's stop in Fort Lauderdale.

• U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  S. Fla. Republican to seek Orlando House seat

  Armando Gutierrez Jr., who voted in Coral Gables in April, plans to challenge a controversial Democrat in Central Florida.

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