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Oh well, maybe the alligator on his page will turn around and bite his head off..... Feb 3, 2012 WASHINGTON, FEB. 3, 2012 – “In response to the original decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to stop funding grants to Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood raised the equivalent funds within 24 hours. Although I wasn’t involved in either decision, it is clear that Planned Parenthood doe...
DailyKos (Florida) - 4:20 p.m. - 7 clicks 
Last night, The Daily Show featured an interview with ACLU of Florida client Luis Lebron, a single father and full-time student who cares for his disabled mother. Luis, a Navy veteran, took a stand for his constitutional rights after learning the state of Florida wanted to force him to take a drug test before he could receive temporary cash assistance from the state. Fortunately, Florida’s dr...
DailyKos (Florida) - 1:43 p.m. - 5 clicks
The Florida House Subcommittee on Business and Consumer Affairs today, wouldn't move forward with the Destination Resorts Bill. They temporarily postponed it. The chair said if it is "Temporarily Postponed" there would be no opportunity to hear it before 2013. Grace Solares gave a great speech against casinos. Thank you Grace. Here is a video of her speaking. It is choppy because th...
Eye On Miami - 11:26 a.m. - 8 clicks
After a huge public backlash following their decision this week to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure has reversed their decision . But Komen's reversal leaves unclear their reason for initially denying Planned Parenthood funding and whether they'll approve future grant requests from the reproductive and child health organization. T...
Bilerico Project Florida - 11:25 a.m. - 7 clicks
Remember the news over Aasif Mandvi from the Daily Show confronting Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) over his plan to drug test welfare recipients? Well, it finally aired last night! ( in response to a Navy veteran who refuses to take the drug test ) FLORIDA STATE REP. SCOTT PLAKON (R): Any citizen, whether a veteran or not, should be happy to take the drug test. As a veter...
DailyKos (Florida) - 10:02 a.m. - 8 clicks
As a chronicler of Miami's chronic deficits, I can't quibble with Forbes Magazine's new designation of Miami as America's most miserable city . The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce has more goo to wipe off its shoes in the sand. (The Chamber might want to look into putting goo removal dispensers next to the glass of water when the board meets.) And what about the John S. and James L. Knight...
Eye On Miami - 8:48 a.m. - 11 clicks
If I followed City of Miami politics more closely, this meeting would be one I would be sure to attend. It says that it is about City of Miami Charter Change. ...
Eye On Miami - 6:08 a.m. - 10 clicks
The terrible costs of Big Sugar are a frequent theme of EOM. As president of Friends of the Everglades and an environmental activist for more than 20 years, I have experienced the pernicious, toxic effect of Big Sugar on public policy and governmental efforts to restore the Everglades, first-hand. ( You can join Friends of the Everglades, by clicking here. ) Last April we posted for EOM readers,...
Eye On Miami - 4:06 a.m. - 11 clicks
Rumor has it that the Vile Former County Commissioner Natacha Seijas was spotted in Tallahassee last week lobbying for something. Anyone have the info? The fellow who told me said, "No one in Tallahassee likes her, who would hire her?" Good question. ...
Eye On Miami - 3:23 a.m. - 9 clicks
The Beltway conventional wisdom : If Obama is on the rebound, someone forgot to tell swing voters in the most important up-for-grabs states in 2012. The idea is that while Obama may be up nationally, he's lagging in the battleground states. But is that true? It's not. You'll see why below. FLORIDA : It looks like the week of GOP primary campaigning in Florida didn't help their chanc...
DailyKos (Florida) - Thu 2:46 p.m. - 18 clicks
Hand it to the Palm Beach Post, sitting up there in the middle of Big Sugar country. They have no hesitation blasting the Florida legislature and its patrons from the sugar industry, regularly. Given that the billionaire Fanjuls throw their influence around in Miami and Miami-Dade County the same way they do in Palm Beach, why is it lowly blogs like EOM-- but not the Herald-- are willing to take s...
Eye On Miami - Thu 8:22 a.m. - 9 clicks
Nomenklatura: a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all sphere's of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, engineering and infrastructure development. In Miami-Dade (and Florida) there is a parallel nomenklatura. Some key members of our own domestic nomenklatura are on parade...
Eye On Miami - Thu 8:22 a.m. - 10 clicks
Read all about it , Eye on Miami is honored to get Post of the Year from fellow bloggers. Thank you all, especially Rick of South Florida Daily Blog who does the poll every year. This is the link to the original Eye on Miami 3 part post. ...
Eye On Miami - Thu 5:04 a.m. - 13 clicks
The election results will be unveiled on Tuesday at eight o'clock in the evening (summer time). Hispanic voters joined the Republican Party represents 13.1% of registered voters in Florida, which is equivalent to 452.000 members. Polls indicate that Newt Gingrich will probably be defeated by Mitt Romney in the crucial Florida primary elections taking place on Tuesday. State voters may be submi...
DailyKos (Florida) - Thu 2:41 a.m. - 11 clicks
With the confidence of being the favorite, Mitt Romney came in the last 48 hours of the major campaign for the Republican presidential primaries in Florida, predicting that tomorrow's vote will win while focusing on future contests. Its main rival, Newt Gingrich, traveled the state trying to revive energy led him to victory in the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21. Gingrich admitted the possibi...
DailyKos (Florida) - Thu 2:41 a.m. - 11 clicks
Last Saturday we spent the day out birdwatching near and along the coast of the Florida Panhandle. At the end of the day we made a small detour to drive out on Alligator Point to check it out before it got dark. We were very glad we did. When we parked at the beach access point and headed onto the boardwalk over the dunes this is what we saw. Note - none of this pictures ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Wed 5:47 p.m. - 11 clicks
Someone forgot to tell Newt he lost. (Octavian Cantilli/Reuters) If you were lucky enough to miss the post-Florida primary night speeches from Mitt Romneybot and Newt Gingrich, here are some select choice snippets. MITT ROMNEY : This campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about saving the soul of America. President Obama and I have two very different visions of Americ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Wed 1:02 p.m. - 9 clicks
It is now the common wisdom of millions of interested parties that ALEC does not work for the vast majority of citizens, that it is a vicious corporate lobby and that it is thee main force behind the deterioration of personal liberties and workers' rights in the United States. Arguing against ALEC's influence over state legislation has become more difficult thanks to efforts such as ALEC Ex...
DailyKos (Florida) - Wed 10:46 a.m. - 15 clicks
With some perspective-- watching the performance of presidents for four decades -- I have come to some conclusions about the circus of a presidential primary that just left the state of Florida. The big picture is that presidents are just like you and me: they can be lucky, smart, dumb or stupid. Sometimes, all of the above. The claims of the contenders of the GOP mantle of presidential candid...
Eye On Miami - Wed 4:42 a.m. - 14 clicks
Cut them out, write notes on the back, get them autographed, just remember these faces. Never forget. Some of them try to hide in the shadows. When you think about what is wrong with Miami Dade County, blame some of these people. Of course, they are not all bad, some are worse than others. Donner probably isn't a lobbyist and I doubt that Korge is technically a lobbyist anymore, but they belo...
Eye On Miami - Wed 4:05 a.m. - 14 clicks
Good Morning Kossacks and Welcome to Morning Open Thread (MOT). We're known as the MOTley Crew and you can find us here every morning at 6:30 Eastern. Feel free to volunteer to take a day - permanently or just once in awhile. With the auto-publish feature you can set it and forget it. Sometime, the diarist du jour shows up much later, that's the beauty of Open Thread...it carries on w...
DailyKos (Florida) - Wed 3:42 a.m. - 11 clicks
Bwahahahahaaaa!!! I just got DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's response to Mitt Romney crushing Newt Gingrich in Florida's primary tonight. And it's good. Very good. But the best part? The preface that came before it from her media person Greg Greene: Before I give you the Chair's comments about tonight, it's worth underscoring that Mitt Romney had the best victory a massive financi...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 7:48 p.m. - 15 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico 6:18 PM PT : Gingrich says he'll abolish White House czars, because as a dictator, he won't need them. 6:19 PM PT : You will always know where you where when Newt gave his "I have a dream" speech. 6:20 PM PT ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:25 p.m. - 12 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico 5:47 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Father of Obamacare on the TelePrompter! 5:49 PM PT (David Jarman): Here's a quick update on the actual counting: we're up to 70% reporting, with the statewide tally Romney 47, Gingr...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:07 p.m. - 12 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico 5:24 PM PT : Team Romney spent 1.5 as much as the entire GOP field spent in FL in 08 on TV. $10m in 08 versus $15m just for Romney in 12.  — @billburton716 via Twitter for BlackBerry® 5:2...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:07 p.m. - 12 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico 4:58 PM PT (Jed Lewison): This is pretty funny... Can we now stop pretending that winning a majority of Republican voters in SC means anything except that you can out-cracker someone? — @ESQPolitics via web...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:07 p.m. - 12 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico 4:31 PM PT : Remember, the story of the night isn't so much that Rommey is going to win big, but it's HOW he won big: Here’s all you need to know about the Florida campaign: amidst the blizzard of campaign ads there wa...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:07 p.m. - 12 clicks
Polls are closed in Florida, and we're liveblogging the results of the Republican presidential primary. Results : AP (By county) | CNN | Google | Politico As we wait for votes to be counted in Florida tonight, what could possibly go wrong? — @politicalwire via Twitter for Mac FLORIDA TV AD BREAKDOWN: 68% of ads were anti-Gingrich, 23% anti-Romney, 9% pro-Gin...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 4:08 p.m. - 12 clicks
Florida's Republican primary election has turned into a much less interesting one than it looked several weeks ago, with Newt Gingrich unable to sustain much of a bounce from his South Carolina victory and Mitt Romney poised to win by double digits, according to almost all pollsters. With Florida a winner-take-all state (the first we've seen so far), there's no partial credit for Gingrich either...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 11:42 a.m. - 15 clicks
Florida Governor Rick Scott spent more than $50 million of his own money to defeat fellow Republican Bill McCollum in the Florida primary election of 2010, thus buying the nomination and ending the political career of an honorable man. Scott then spent an additional $20 million of his own money to defeat Democrat Alex Sink in the gubernatorial race. Florida voters flocked to the polls in 201...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 7:41 a.m.
Our "Fun with Highways" series comes to the Sunshine State, just in time for the primaries. Starting from the greater Miami area, we explore outward in a variety of directions, and even give a nod to a new moon base. Florida is, of course, a big state and I only cover a fraction of it. So please feel free to add you own facts, ideas and experiences in the comments. In particu...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 7:05 a.m. - 15 clicks
Finally, after the hype, all the analysis and $18 million in commercials (most of it attacking Newt), it's voting day in Florida. So here we are, ready and waiting to see if Floridian seniors will vote for Mitt Romney, whether evangelicals and tea party adherents will show up for Newt Gingrich and whether Boca Raton will vote for Pat Buchanan one last time. The Daily Kos Elections Polli...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:28 a.m. - 11 clicks
No, David Gregory wasn't at the Florida debate. At least, not on stage. He may have been in the audience rooting for his favorite candidate, though. Gregory is a hack in the same way that Wolf Blitzer isn't a wolf. On last week's show he accused Obama of raising the dreaded Fed deficit more than Shrub when, in fact, it's lower. Obama raised it $600B whil...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:28 a.m. - 12 clicks
To the richest who can advertise longest, the spoils. That should be Florida's official electoral motto. After more than a year of saturation marketing, if Romney doesn't beat Gingrich by 20% or more, the momentum effect may be offsetting Romney's millions, even with the early voting lock that the Mittster had going into today's primary here. ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Tue 6:28 a.m. - 13 clicks
This morning I read in the Herald that LeBron James bikes to the Miami Heat arena in downtown Miami to avoid the ferocious traffic -- the result of horrendous decisions on developments downtown by elected officials. No one in their right mind would put an arena, a performing arts center, a museum, and thousands of condo units all served by 1950's era transit. Oh, I forgot Cirque du Soleil. You...
Eye On Miami - Tue 4:48 a.m. - 16 clicks
I thankfully missed the last GOP debate, but from what I've read, Cuba was mentioned more than once. Perhaps more than a dozen times? Look...I know this is the Florida primary, but this American has to ask..."What the fuck is so special about Cubans, Cuban "exiles", and the history of Cuba, that enables this immigrant enclave to retain its vitriol and its political relevance after 53...
DailyKos (Florida) - Mon 7:47 p.m. - 8 clicks
Burmese Pythons as large as 20 feet lone have escaped from captivity, invaded the Everglades, and wiped out populations of mid-sized mammals. Python populations have expanded rapidly to nearly all of south Florida and now they are expanding north. These huge snakes thrive in urban and suburban environments where they may hide unobserved between feedings. The adaptable pythons are battling with a...
DailyKos (Florida) - Mon 7:47 p.m. - 7 clicks
If there is one thing we can say about the polling coming out in advance of tomorrow's Florida primary, it is that somebody is going to wind up having serious egg on their face tomorrow. The range of the pre-election polling in the Sunshine State? Well, maybe it is tightening, and Newt Gingrich is back within the margin of error. Or maybe Mitt Romney is now staked to a 20 point advanta...
DailyKos (Florida) - Mon 6:27 p.m. - 13 clicks
After a small post-South Carolina surge, Newt Gingrich's standing in the polls has steadily eroded, as this chart from FiveThirtyEight shows: The newest batch of polling all agrees on one broad point: Mitt Romney still leads. But by how much—and whether Newt still has any mojo left—there is no consensus. Quinnipiac : Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a 43 - 29 percent lead over ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Mon 9:06 a.m. - 7 clicks
Newt Gingrich’s thorough pounding in South Carolina has set up Florida as the next important primary. If Gingrich is able to win Florida as well, then Mitt Romney will be in a heap of trouble. At this point a Gingrich victory is an eminently possible event. Throughout November and December Gingrich was posting enormous leads in Florida; for some reason the seniors there seem to really like him...
DailyKos (Florida) - Mon 8:25 a.m. - 12 clicks
Jeb Bush has retained his popularity among voters in Florida. The question is not why Jeb is sitting on the sidelines in the rancorous Florida primary, but why he manages to have stayed in voters' favor after two terms as governor representing the growth-at-any-cost policies that first carried aloft his biggest campaign backers and then fell out of the sky like a jet covered with ice. (You don't h...
Eye On Miami - Mon 5:10 a.m. - 14 clicks
There are two charter questions . Vote YES on both. The Miami Herald agrees: This would be the first time since the 1950s that an eight-year limit has made it to the ballot. And, if you are a Republican you can vote in your primary for your Godawful candidates. ...
Eye On Miami - Mon 4:03 a.m. - 2 clicks
I put the States in order of when they allowed gambling from the earliest, Colorado in 1931 to the latest, Maryland in 2008. If you follow along you will see the deals for each State. You will also see that the deals get better and better because we know just how much money these casinos generate. The lowest rates are for the first two States to approve gambling. In any event, look at this li...
Eye On Miami - Mon 4:03 a.m. - 15 clicks
The party is over. (...) As of Feb. 6, FLORIDA TODAY will be discontinuing the citizen-opinion features on (the) Public Interest pages, in print and online. FLORIDA TODAY is relaunching under a new business model, to include online subscriptions and new host technology. The same changes has forced updates to our content. For you, it means: 1. ...Opinion Matters bl...
Talk to Me - Sun 9:42 p.m. - 23 clicks
(crossposted from Buffalo Ridge Blog ) Yup, this is Florida's week in the sun(?), as the four survivors of the seven dwarfs AKA the republican presidential candidates are making the rounds. The other day we were underwhelmed with Newt, today it was Mitt's turn to enable noontime napping...Too bad there wasn't anyplace to lay down at the event. Let's set the scene: Downtown Naples, home to ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Sun 1:41 p.m. - 16 clicks
National standings from Gallup.com, 1/29/12 1. What we wrote at the beginning of the month ( Four reasons why Mitt Romney will be the nominee ) is still true. Those four reasons were Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Rick Perry, although without Perry I suppose we are now down to three reasons. But reason number #1 that Romney will win is Newt Gingrich, who remains a pompous w...
DailyKos (Florida) - Sun 11:00 a.m. - 12 clicks
Update : "Herman Cain, once considered the preferred choice of conservatives in the GOP presidential race, endorsed Newt Gingrich at the Kravis Center Saturday night. ... Cain's surprise appearance at the Lincoln Day Dinner came as Romney has overtaken Gingrich in the polls just three days before Florida's crucial primary. " " Gingrich garners Cain endorsement at Kravis Center GOP event ". Fur...
Florida Politics - Sun 9:10 a.m. - 14 clicks
Joe Martinez officially filed his papers to run for County Mayor on January 25th. All I can say is Ugh! Actually I am happy that little Joe is running because it is a RESIGN TO RUN position. He will have to resign his commission seat. On that I say Hallelujah, Praise the Lord! That joy is, of course, based on him losing the mayoral election. I would never support Joe for Mayor, unless he wa...
Eye On Miami - Sun 5:40 a.m. - 13 clicks
Observers of presidential politics in America will want to spend some time reading and cogitating "The Obama Memos" by Ryan Lizza in this week's New Yorker. Lizza reminds us that Barack Obama ran as the post-partisan president, "proposing himself as a transformative figure, the man who would spring the lock." But nothing of the sort happened, and not because of Obama. Lizza reports of da...
Eye On Miami - Sun 5:07 a.m. - 14 clicks
Watch Monster Python on PBS. See more from Inside Nature's Giants. Also awesome footage of the Everglades. ...
Eye On Miami - Sun 3:44 a.m. - 16 clicks
Obamacare versus Romneycare. Governor Romney has said that he will repeal Obamacare if elected (a not-so-easy promise to keep, mind you). In the video below, he fumbled through the attack from Rick Santorum and his answers sounded evasive. He was visibly frustrated. This comes against Santorum who is known for passion but not necessarily for strength at debating. When the same question comes u...
DailyKos (Florida) - Sun 12:10 a.m. - 7 clicks
Short and sweet, from the New York Times : Despite signs that he could lose the important Florida primary on Tuesday, Newt Gingrich, who picked up the endorsement of a former opponent, Herman Cain, pledged Saturday to stay in the nominating race until the very end, telling reporters he would press on until the Republican convention in Tampa in August. “I will go all the way to the convention...
DailyKos (Florida) - Sat 10:23 p.m. - 11 clicks
Randy Schultz : "One week ago, Republicans in Florida probably were excited about their decision to move up the state's presidential primary. This morning, you wonder whether they're having second thoughts." If Democratic primary voters have moved to the left in the past decade, Republican voters have moved even further to the right, especially since the financial panic of 2008. So whoever wins ...
Florida Politics - Sat 10:07 a.m. - 17 clicks
Update : "Polls earlier this week showed a huge bump for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich after his win in the South Carolina primary. Only days later, the momentum has returned to Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is again up in the Sunshine State." "Quinnipiac Poll: Florida Becoming Romney Territory Again". "Surging since his South Carolina Republican presidential primary win, former Hous...
Florida Politics - Sat 7:04 a.m. - 14 clicks
It is interesting how much coverage the media gave of the love fest the Latin Builders Association threw for the Republican candidates for president. I'm sure if Sierra Club invited the candidates (and they agreed to appear) there would have been only a footnote in the newspaper. As it is, the Miami Herald did give a footnote (and not a story so far as I could tell) that the LBA board endorsed Ric...
Eye On Miami - Sat 6:42 a.m. - 29 clicks
I wrote about James W. Hall's appearance at the Miami International Book Fair on November 22nd. Specifically that his book "Dead Last" was not available for purchase. Feeling my pain he sent me an autographed copy for free. I just finished reading the book (I had a few ahead of his in my book reading line-up). Following in the footsteps of John D. McDonald who creat...
Eye On Miami - Sat 4:03 a.m. - 14 clicks
January 27th - Auto Dealer, Billionaire Norman Braman talks about the effect gambling will have on Miami. Really good point comes at 1:00 on the counter....and another at 2:50 on the counter. If you are on a phone use this link. ...
Eye On Miami - Sat 1:27 a.m. - 17 clicks
The Florida House redistricting committee finalized their work today and submitted plans for Congressional and Legislative districts today. Plans and data may be found here Although it's hard to believe, there weren't a lot of last minute surprises and in most cases, the small changes made were to eliminate splitting communities and fine tune boundaries. And despite the frantic efforts o...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 22 clicks
Mitt Romney is resurgent! (Unless he's not.) Even if he's not, though, the schedule favors Mitt Romney. After all, he is coming up on a series of contests in places like Arizona and Michigan, where he should have a real advantage. (Unless he doesn't.) There are two very contradictory themes developing as we head into the weekend before the Florida primaries. On one hand, it is becomi...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 19 clicks
Well there are these funny little standards, that used to be called "the Facts" back in the day. Fact check: Florida GOP debate by Brooks Jackson, usatoday, FactCheck.org -- Jan 27, 2012 Newt Gingrich falsely claimed he never favored a federal mandate requiring individuals to have health insurance. Rick Santorum claimed five times more people are seeking free care at M...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 11 clicks
Note: Maribel Hastings, senior adviser at America's Voice, is in Florida covering the GOP primary. She'll be filing regular reports on the campaign as part of our "Voz Y Voto 2012" series. MIAMI - Maybe someone told Mitt Romney he’d have to make a serious effort to attract Latino voters, especially on the eve of the Republican primary in Florida. Whatever the cause, the former Massachusett...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 10 clicks
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Republican legislative leaders continue their ongoing quest to privatize every function of the state's government. Currently on deck: prisons. Wednesday the Florida Senate Budget Committee passed a bill to privatize South Florida's 29 prisons, turning them over to for-profit companies that would be required to produce costs 7 percent below the cost of state-run ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 9 clicks
For any who may be reading this series for the first time : this is a thought experiment where I try to see what would happen if the size of the House of Representatives were doubled to 870 members from 435. And yes, I know Republicans have the trifecta in Florida. This entire series is theoretical to begin with, gimme a break. With the Florida primary rapidly descending upon us, I thought ...
DailyKos (Florida) - Jan 27 - 14 clicks
The board of the Miami Dade Expressway Authority, or MDX , is in the midst of approving the extension of the Dolphin Expressway/ SR 836 south into farmland and open space and needs to hear from the public why that is a terrible, horrendous idea. What is at stake is including this project in the MDX 5-year plan. If approved by the MDX board, it will trigger another in a long list of skirmishes at...
Eye On Miami - Jan 27 - 15 clicks
In the first of two debates before Florida's Jan. 31 primary, Mitt Romney tried, but failed to take the edge off of Newt Gingrich's post-South Carolina lead in the GOPer primary. In one of the very few remarkable moments in the "debate", Romney magically solved the problem of illegal immigration: "Romney was asked to explain how he could say he does not want to round up illegal immigrants but als...
Florida Politics - Jan 24 - 4 clicks
Florida Reps head to the polls, Ron Paul skips the sunshine. President Obama is expected to set the tone for his reelection through delivery of the State of the Union address this evening. Expect a reach out to the middle class via his vision for college affordability. Gabrielle Gifford s calls it a day. We wish her the best. The Supre...
Talk to Me - Jan 23 - 3 clicks
The latest Insider Advantage and Rasmussen Florida polls have Gingrich with 9% and 8% leads respectively: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, taken Sunday [(yesterday)] evening, finds Gingrich earning 41% of the vote with Romney in second at 32%. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum runs third with 11%, while Texas Congressman Ron Paul attracts ...
Florida Politics - Jan 23 - 6 clicks
Dan Balz asks: "does South Carolina mark the beginning of real erosion in Romney’s standing that could lead to the former House speaker winning the nomination, something unthinkable only a month ago?" That’s what Florida — and then Nevada, Michigan, Arizona and perhaps other states on the calendar — will tell us. But there is no doubt that the defeat here on Saturday represents a setback to Romne...
Florida Politics - Jan 22
"In what is organized labor's first major investment in the Republican presidential primary, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is spending almost $1 million in Florida on a television ad attacking Mitt Romney's business career." The new ad links Romney's business career to that of Florida Gov. Rick Scott. "Corporate greed. Medicare fraud. Sound familiar?" the narrat...
Florida Politics - Jan 21
