Karl Rove takes on Ron Klein -- again
American Crossroads, a political action committee tied to Republican strategist Karl Rove -- and already busy targeting Gov. Charlie Crist -- is moving into House races, taking aim at Rep. Ron Klein....
View ArticleBill Nelson vs. Rush Limbaugh? Keep the radio gig, poll suggests
Public Policy Polling pits the radio talk show host against Florida's senior senator -- who is up for releection in 2012. And it looks like Rush should keep his day job. Nelson leads Limbaugh 50 to 36...
View ArticleAtwater ad ties Ausley to Pelosi
Jeff Atwater is out with a new TV commercial hitting CFO opponent Loranne Ausley. The ad tries to link Ausley with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and says Ausley is a "Tallahassee politician who wants...
View ArticleNatl GOP says Rubio doesn't need the money
Associated Press: Republican officials say they are canceling $4 million in planned TV ads for Florida, a show of confidence in Senate nominee Marco Rubio who leads in polls. The GOP instead is pouring...
View ArticleState once sued Rick Scott for insider trading, court raised questions about...
Rick Scott wants to be governor of a state that once sued him for insider trading. In 1997, as the FBI unleashed a massive criminal investigation of Scott's hospital chain, Florida's State Board of...
View ArticleDavid Rivera: I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you
As far as we know, Republican congressional hopeful David Rivera hasn't been asked if he's a spy. But in a Naples radio interview Friday, the state representative and Florida House budget chief did get...
View ArticleSink camp breaks $10 million mark; Scott hits $56.5 million
That's according to the new campaign finance reports out today. Democrat Alex Sink's campaign raised $382,000 from Oct. 2-10, bringing her total raised to $10.1 million. She has collected more than...
View ArticleScott turns to newspapers for latest attack on Sink
Republican Rick Scott won't answer questions from editorial boards, but he'll buy full page ads in their newspapers. The ad, entitled "What is Alex Sink Hiding?", is running in major newspapers across...
View ArticleNBC: Allen West and the Outlaws
NBC News late Friday reported that Republican challenger Allen West, who is running in a tight race against Rep. Ron Klein, ignored a supporter's warning not to invite the Outlaws, a national...
View ArticleWest won't attend motorcycle rally tonight
Allen West, the Republican challenging U.S. Rep. Ron Klein (D-Boca Raton), won't be at the biker rally in Pompano Beach tonight and never planned to attend, said his campaign manager Josh Grodin. He...
View ArticleReading the tea leaves: a November special session likely
It’s looking more and more likely that the Legislature’s November organizational session will also morph into a one-day special session to take care of business for the Republicans in charge. Take, for...
View ArticlePumping up the black vote in FL
Complementing President Obama's cross-country campaign spree before the mid-term elections, he has cut a radio ad aimed at black voters that is airing throughout Florida. "Two years ago, you voted in...
View ArticleVideo: Watch Rick Scott get deposed
Alex Sink's campaign for governor has clipped up the video deposition Rick Scott gave in Nashville on St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 1995. The lawsuit was filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare System...
View ArticleHispanic Republicans on the radio for Sink
Three Hispanic Republicans -- Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado, economist Tony Villamil and state Sen. Alex Villalobos -- have cut Spanish-language radio ads for Democratic gubernatorial...
View ArticleMaurice Ferre endorses Rick Scott to snub Dems
Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, badly defeated in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, has endorsed Republican Rick Scott for governor, calling him an "entrepreneur who clearly understands good...
View ArticleDNC chair to visit So Fla
In a sign of the Democratic party's concern about turnout in a crucial battleground state, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine will visit South Florida on Friday and Saturday. Joined by...
View ArticleRasmussen: Scott up by 6 over Sink
New Rasmussen (robo) poll (750LV, Oct. 18, MoE +/-4%): Republican Rick Scott now leads Democrat Alex Sink by six points in the race to be Florida’s next governor. It’s the widest gap between the...
View ArticleRubio trying to lend Rivera star power?
Marco Rubio, a frontrunner for U.S. Senate and a national name in the Republican party, campaigned Wednesday with a close pal on shakier political ground -- congressional candidate David Rivera -- at...
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