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By Javier Manjarres Congressman Connie Mack’s once ‘stealthy’ Senatorial campaign has stepped up its  grassroots outreach efforts  by hiring long-time conservative consultant Brett Doster.  Doster is President and founder of the Tallahassee-based Front-Line Strategies and was tapped by Mack to head up his anemic ground game last week.  Doster and Mack were both present at [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Florida Governor Rick  Scott has affectionately called out Texas Governor Rick Perry by telling him that he was going to “kick his rear” in terms of  job creation and having best state economic growth in the nation.  During Scott’s remarks to the Republican faithful of Jacksonville, Scott talked about a recent phone [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Former U.S. Senator George LeMieux is once again at odds with Senator Marco Rubio, this time the bone of contention is about Rubio’s vote against the Restore Act. LeMieux stated that he “would have voted for it, in all due respect to Marco, I know that he is a lot closer to [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Just when you thought that Richard DeNapoli and the Broward Republican Executive Committee (BREC) were turning over a new leaf and setting a new tone, DeNapoli & Co. have struck again, this time by ambushing Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack. At the most recent BREC meeting that featured Congressman Connie [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Congressman Connie Mack’s campaign has been coasting on ‘stealth-mode’ of late, but he’s just announced a heavyweight endorsement- former Republican presidential hopeful  Michele Bachmann has thrown her support behind Congressman Mack’s Senatorial campaign. Connie has been a steadfast fighter for freedom, less government and a fiscal hawk together with me in the [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Former Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain was in Florida to give the keynote address at the Hernando County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner.  Before Cain addressed the crowd of 400, former U.S. Senator and current Republican candidate George LeMieux was also afforded the opportunity to address the Hernando Republican faithful. During Cain’s address, the former Presidential [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Now that CFO Jeff Atwater as official announced that he will not seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, his announcement now clears the field for former U.S. Senator George LeMieux and Congressman Connie Mack continue their bitter Republican primary race. In a recent BizPac interview with Michelle Kirk, LeMieux seized [...]

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by Javier Manjarres The dynamics in Florida’s Republican U.S.Senate race have been shaken up considerably with the announcement by Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater that he’s considering a U.S. Senate bid in 2012.  Atwater was part of the “class of 2010″ group of candidates that included U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Rick Scott [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Many Republican activists around the state are becoming increasingly pessimistic  about the Party’s chances to defeat incumbent Senator Bill Nelson, as both Congressman Connie Mack and former Senator George LeMieux have under performed and have largely failed to inspire the conservative grassroots base of the Party.   The most recent Republican primary [...]

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by Javier Manjarres Congressman Connie Mack launched his first paid attack ad against Democrat Senator Bill Nelson for ummm, “monkeying around” with taxpayer dollars. Mack is the current frontrunner in the Republican Senate primary race between Mike McCalister and former U.S. Senator George LeMieux, and many have raised questions as to whether or not he [...]

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