Rod Smith wins endorsement of Miami-Dade party execs
Former state Sen. Rod Smith won the endorsements of two Miami-Dade party officials Wednesday in his bid to become the next leader of the Florida Democratic Party. Bret Berlin and Verna Lewis-Edington,...
View ArticleCretul jumps from House chamber to Florida Chamber
Former state House Speaker Larry Cretul has received a newly-created job at the Florida Chamber of Commerce. The job is staff director for the chamber's board of governors, which includes members of...
View ArticleMarco Rubio: The White House got it wrong on oil drilling
Incoming Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he doesn't support the administration's decision to back off on offshore oil drilling. "I believe offshore oil exploration should continue to be part of America's...
View ArticleRick Scott meets the Florida delegation, sparks fly
Nearly every member of Florida's congressional delegation made it to today's meet and greet with incoming Florida Gov. Rick Scott -- who pledged to "find ways we can work together." But not when it...
View ArticleRick Scott bound for White House, disagrees with oil drilling decision
The incoming Florida governor said neither he nor Gov. Charlie Crist got a heads up about the announcement. "First of, you'd think they could've waited and explained it to us," said Scott, who will...
View ArticleHaridopolos calls Obama's a flip-flopper on oil, kinda like he is
Thirty-six days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Senate President Mike Haridopolos reversed himself on oil drilling said the legislature wouldn't be pursuing oil drilling anytime soon. "At the...
View ArticleScott wants people stopped and asked if they're here legally or not
Gov.-elect Rick Scott said he hadn't seen the immigration bill recently filed by Sen. Mike Bennett, but he's supportive of the concept of stopping citizens to ask them to show identification. Scott,...
View ArticleMel Martinez surfaces in Wikileaks
The former Florida senator apparently had a role in a U.S. bid to stop Spain's torture probe of six senior Bush officials. Read it here. The Guardian says a "major worry" for the Bush administration...
View ArticleFeds slap Republican Party with subpoena in corruption probe
Federal investigators slapped the Republican Party with a subpoena seeking financial records as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe by the FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office, the Herald/Times has...
View ArticleRick Scott: Oil drilling is great! Obama ain't!
What a difference an election makes. On the campaign trail, Gov. Elect Rick Scott was pretty circumspect about offshore oil drilling when he was asked about it in the Panhandle, which overwhelmingly...
View ArticleRon Klein says good-bye to the House
The Boca Raton Democrat -- who lost in November to Republican Allen West -- bade farewell to the House Wednesday, but not before asking incoming Gov. Rick Scott at a Florida delegation meeting for his...
View ArticleFrederica Wilson to hang up her hats?
The Miami congresswoman-to-be has expressed exasperation in recent days with the media focus on her wish to wear her signature hats in the U.S. House, telling the Miami Herald and MSNBC that she wants...
View ArticleSenate Dem chief goes after George LeMieux on the Dream Act -- in Espanol
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Hispanic media spokesman, José Dante Parra, is accusing George LeMieux -- a target of Dream Act activists -- with coming up with different reasons for voting against...
View ArticleSen Pres. Haridopolos files anti-ObamaCare (RomneyCare?) resolution
In a run up to his likely race for U.S. Senate, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos announced he filed a proposed amendment to the state constitution that could stop President Obama's health care...
View ArticleFollowing an nontraditional pick, Allen West goes with a DC insider as new...
Following the kerfuffle over the hiring -- and departure -- of talk radio show host Joyce Kaufman as his chief of staff, incoming Rep. Allen West has gone with a congressional veteran. West announced...
View ArticleRick Scott meets with POTUS and VPOTUS
The newly-elected governor is among those meeting today near the White House with President Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden. Biden greeted the new governors by joking that he ran for the U.S....
View ArticlePOTUS weighs in on LeBron James's return to Cleveland
"It's going to be brutal," President Barack Obama said of Miami Heat star LeBron James' return tonight to Cleveland -- the town he spurned for Miami.
View ArticleCrist looks to his future, reflects on past
Gov. Charlie Crist dropped new hints about his future Thursday, saying he's in "serious" talks with trial lawyer John Morgan about joining the Morgan & Morgan law firm that backed his failed bid...
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Thrasher reject's Scott's appeals to remain as RPOF chairman
For weeks, Gov.-elect Rick Scott has been urging state Sen. John Thrasher of Jacksonville to remain as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, serving as Scott's crucial liasion to the party...
View ArticleGOP subpoena fallout
When John Thrasher took the helm of the Florida GOP nearly 10 months ago, he pledged to usher in a new era of transparency, open communication, and working hand in hand with grass roots leaders of the...
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