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The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In Florida right now there is a primary with many similarities with the NY23 case - Charlie Crist is the annointed favorite of the GOP establishment in power, and Marco Rubio is the genuine fiscal conservative favored by those who value principle over party. Here's the kind of guy Crist is - Charlie Crist welcomed Barack Obama to Florida last February, hugged him, grinned when Obama called Crist “his...
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FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Consider giving a newspaper subscription as a gift and/or buying one or more subscriptions for delivery to your workplace ( here's how ); whenever you visit a newspaper site online, please click on one or more of the advertisements and make an effort to patronize newspaper advertisers. Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Crist not so sunny these days...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Governor Charlie Crist, accompanied by Florida First Lady Carole Crist, made an unscheduled visit to Orlando, Friday, after hearing about the shooting in a downtown office building that killed one and wounded five. Crist was in Tampa when he got...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In a heated race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Gov. Charlie Crist keeps moving away from his support of President Barack Obama's stimulus package that the governor called "fantastic" and "remarkable" when lobbying for its passage.
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
? FL-Sen : It looks like the Club for Growth has decided to weigh in on the Florida Senate primary, and they're doing so with a vengeance, with a TV spot going after Charlie Crist's embrace of the Obama stimulus package. Crist himself has been trying for the last few days to walk back his stimulus support -- despite statements on the record from February saying that if he'd been in the Senate, he'd...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Gov. Charlie Crist is seeking a special legislative session next month in hopes that lawmakers will approve a commuter rail system in central Florida.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist called for the Legislature to stiffen anti-corruption laws Wednesday at a gathering of state prosecutors, even as the governor sought to distance himself from disgraced Broward lawyer and fundraiser Scott...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By WIlliam E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Tuesday’s elections brought good news for Florida Governor Charlie Crist and his bid for a U.S. Senate seat. McDonnell elected The results reinforced mainstream Republicans who play down right-wing ideology and position...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
TALLAHASSEE -- Don Winstead, Gov. Charlie Crist's point-man on the federal economic stimulus act, has the laborious chore of explaining to state lawmakers why the nearly $16 billion in federal bailout money flowing to Florida has "created or saved" some...
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Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As we've noted in Morning Docket for the past two days , lawyer Scott Rothstein is in all kinds of trouble in Florida. From what we understand, it's Marc Dreier redux, the sunshine state version. We're still trying to wrap our heads around the story, but as the Bard would say, the sh** hath hitteth the fan this week. The WSJ Law Blog is similarly perplexed by the scandal (See What's Going on at Rothstein...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
TALLAHASSEE -- It's old news for Florida politicos. But Gov. Charlie Crist's U.S. Senate campaign has announced that former chief of staff Eric Eikenberg will in fact serve as his campaign manager. From Camp Crist: The Charlie Crist for U.S....
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By News staff By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI, Fla. -- A prominent and politically connected South Florida attorney is being investigated for financial irregularities and may lose control of his firm to receivership. No charges have been filed against Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, who also owns a home in Narragansett. But his law firm's president claimed in court papers Monday...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The bottom is falling out from under Florida's once hugely popular governor. <p/> A new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll finds only 42 percent of likely Florida voters think Charlie Crist is doing a good or excellent job as governor, by far the worst approval rating of Crist's 34 months in office.
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Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Dede Scozzafava, the actual Republican nominee for the U.S. House seat in New York's 23rd Congressional District, was forced to suspend her campaign three days before Election Day because of a coordinated campaign by consevative activists to brand her a liberal because she supports, among other things, marriage equality. Major anti-LGBT Republican superstars , from Rick Santorum to Sarah Palin to...
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
? FL-Sen : Everything's coming up Milhous for Rep. Kendrick Meek these days: Rep. Corrine Brown decided not to challenge him in the primary, he's watching Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio go hammer and tongs at each other on the GOP side, and now he has the endorsement of Florida's currently most successful Democrat, Sen. Bill Nelson. ? NH-Sen : Oh please oh please ... the geniuses at the Club for Growth...
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