POLITICO: Job Change Update Republican press secretary Pepper Pennington is moving on from the very funny Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to the now very-well-known Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). If anyone can handle Wilson, it’s Pennington, who learned from the master: longtime boss and former Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.). Share on Facebook Related posts:Inside the Inbox of Joe WilsonTop [...] Related posts:...
So much for a slow news Friday: Senator Mel Martinez has decided to take his ball and go home. What’s next? Who does Crist appoint? Marc Rubio Jeb Bush Bob Martinez Tom Feeney The Fix: FL-Senate: Martinez to Resign Chris Frates, Manu Raju, Josh Kraushaar: Mel Martinez Resigning
Late last week, alleged vote-rigging conspirator and former three-term Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) was informed that the Department of Justice was dropping their two year probe into his 2003 lobbyist-paid junket with Jack Abramoff to play golf in Scotland, according to his attorney Robert Luskin (who also happens to be Karl Rove's criminal attorney). The DoJ's [...]
Former Rep. Tom Feeney says the Justice Department has told him it has dropped a criminal investigation relating to a golf trip he took to Scotland with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Last Friday night, our Washington correspondent, Mark K. Matthews, filed exclusively that the Justice Department had closed its two-year investigation into former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney's dealings with convicted influence-peddler Jack Abramoff. Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell filed his take on...
Our digest and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Pinellas Fools "For the second time in two weeks, a doctored image of President Barack Obama has stirred a political and racial row in the Tampa Bay area. ... Once it hit the Drudge Report this week, it spread far and wide, including to a Facebook page titled 'Pinellas County Republican Party.'" " Pinellas...
? DE-Sen : Rep. Mike Castle yesterday told a radio interviewer that he'd decide "in the next month or so" what, if anything, he's going to run for. One possible hint, though, is that he said that there are some "good young elected officials in the state who possibly could run on a statewide basis and should be looked at," and he specifically named some state legislators like state...
Orlando Sentinel: After more than two years, the Department of Justice this week dropped an ethics investigation into former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney of Oviedo, who was suspected of wrongdoing after taking a golf trip to Scotland with corrupt ex-lobbyist...
In a story reported first on OrlandoSentinel.com, Mark K. Matthews reports that the investigation into the golf trip to Scotland that former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, took with lobbyist Jack Abramoff has ended. Department of Justice officials will not...
David McKalip, the now disgraced doctor who sent out a racist email depicting President Obama as a tribal witch doctor, has an extensive record of contributions to Florida politicians and political causes. Why does this matter? Because you just know that this was not the first time McKalip's real beliefs were shared with policy makers. How many meetings must he have had with elected officials during...
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disgraceful.,pity his black or hispanic patients who probably get worse care because of his bigotry. If he disagreed with obama's policy he should have...
7/17/2009 2:30PM Unsealed appellate court decision explains delay in corruption probe of Tom Feeney, but will indictments ever come?... See: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7308
So whatever happened to that expected indictment of former Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) and alleged vote-rigging conspirator for, among other things, his 2003 Abramoff-funded junket to play golf in St. Andrews, Scotland? The other two Congressman who took the trips with the disgraced, imprisoned Republican uber-lobbyist have been held, at least, partially to account (Rep. Bob [...]
The Republican Party establishment is making it clear that conservatives should give them money and then shut up. Remember in 2006, when the GOP establishment spent millions to help Republican-in-name-only Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI) turn back his conservative primary challenger – only to have Chafee lose in the fall (and then, like Arlen Specter , abandon the Republican Party )? Don't forget last...