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Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
After hard-line conservatives and tea party activists forced moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race in New York’s 23rd congressional district, they announced that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would likely be their next target in the GOP civil war. Politico’s Ben Smith reports that some Florida Republicans recently registered an official “Tea...
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Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Florida Dems Suzanne Kosmas -- a freshman legislator who ousted a Republican in 2008 -- and Blue Dog Dem Allen Boyd were among just 39 Democrats voting against the health care bill as it narrowly cleared the House with a...
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S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | yesterday
In perhaps the least surprising story of the day, the conservative Club for Growth PAC “today endorsed Marco Rubio in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Florida,” according to a press release. "Marco Rubio is the real deal, one of the brightest young stars in American politics today, and a proven champion of economic liberty," [...]
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S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist tells CNN “he never endorsed President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus measure, in what appears to be the latest effort by the Florida Republican to distance himself from the president as he seeks his party’s Senate nomination.” "I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,"...
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Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Hands Across the Sand will bring together people on Florida's Gulf coast, and possibly the entire shoreline, to join hands in one long line of resistance to efforts by the state's Republican legislators to sell out the state to oil interests. Literally.
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Red State (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
One anonymous internet attack out of the offices of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) against the Rubio team is a bit much. But two? There has been another one. Last time, Rich Heffley, one of Charlie Crist’s top guys and on the payroll of the RPOF, orchestrated an entire attack against Marco Rubio online, trying to be anonymous, that came complete with a Hitler video attacking...
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The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Until the following e-mails we were under the impression that the Florida GOP and RNC did squat to elect Bill Foster, a Republican, mayor of Florida's fourth largest city, despite Florida Democrats wading in fairly heavily for Democrat Kathleen Ford:...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
If the NY-23 race yields a teabagger-supported winner, Florida's teabaggers will be emboldened in their attacks against candidate Gov. Charlie Crist in next year's Republican primary.
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PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Republicans take New Jersey by 5 points. Republicans take Virginia by 18. NY 23: Owens 50, Hoffman 45, Scozzafava 6 – with precincts still reporting. But what is the real news'? It was no surprise that the GOP took back the state of Virginia, what is a surprise is the massive 18 point margin.…
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Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The next Big Election Day, in Florida and most other places, will take place exactly one year from today, on November 2nd, 2010. In Florida, voters will have the opportunity to rid themselves of an awful lot of public office-holding dead weight – as in the kind that drags you down – starting with but [...]
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
BLITZER: A picture can be worth a thousand words, as they say. Right now, one image is being used to spell out a whole story. It's being used against Florida's Republican governor, who now wants to become the next U.S. senator. Governor Charlie Crist is joining us now from the capital, Tallahassee. Gloria Borger, our senior political analyst, is joining me now in the questioning. Governor,...
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The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Democratic National Committee said today that it will target "vulnerable" Florida Republicans C.W. Bill Young and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for voting against the House health care plan despite Barack Obama winning their districts in 2008. "You would think a member...
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The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lest you think only the Florida Republican party is chock full of infighting, here's part of a mass e-mail from Miami-Dade Democratic Chairman B.J. Chiszar: "THE FIGHT ISN'T OVER JUST YET! THE SENATE MUST ACT NOW! I am instructing everyone...
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The Caucus (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Republican candidate for the Senate seat from Florida receives the official backing of a conservative group.
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MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Club for Growth has already gone after Charlie Crist in the Florida Republican Senate primary, making more difficult the path to the GOP nomination for the once-popular more moderate incumbent Governor. Now the group is officially staking its position behind Crist's opponent, Marco Rubio. The Club for Growth made it official this morning, throwing its weighty endorsement behind former...