Last week as I strolled the halls at CPAC, I ran into Doug Hoffman. Rememer him? Hoffman’s race sparked the activist movement around the country that has brought victories for the GOP in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The next election that could see this same effect is Florida’s CD 19. Republican Edward Lynch will be [...]
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Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart’s decision not to seek re-election later this year for Congress has set off a scramble and rumor frenzy concerning both state and local politics. The only person whose name is being thrown around at this juncture, and in my opinion would be considered a perfect fit to replace Diaz-Balart is Florida House [...]
Continue reading …In a prelude to what will most certainly be a contentious squabble on the issue of illegal immigration later this year in Congress, Senate candidate Marco Rubio has taken direct aim at the political establishment’s dominant view that the census should simply count anyone physically present within the country, as opposed to only counting citizens, [...]
Continue reading …Conservative Mike Yost to take on Brown in Florida’s Congressional District 3
February 4, 2010 13 Comments
Congresswoman Corinne Brown, another Congressional Democrat who has liberally imbibed more than her share of Obama’s ‘Messianic’ punch, is running for re-election again. After seeing more than enough of the ‘change we can really believe in’ over the past several months, my senses tell me that she is going to have a very difficult time [...]
Continue reading …Governor Crist is blasting his Senate Primary opponent Marco Rubio for his position of being against counting illegal immigrants in next year’s census. Charlie, listen to what you are saying- these are “I L L E G A L” immigrants for goodness sakes! Let me say it again, ‘ I L L E G A [...]
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With all of the attention focused on the Congressional, State and the Senate race(s) here in Florida, there hasn’t been much talk about who will replace Attorney General Bill McCollum in November. Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp has decided to finish out his term as the Lt. Governor and run for the Attorney General, a state [...]
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Florida Senator Carey Baker is a candidate for the Commissioner of Agriculture, a state cabinet-level office that will become vacant later this year. On a recent trip to Orlando, I sat down with Senator Baker to ask him about his campaign for the office, and what the transition would entail from his present position as [...]
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No surprise here that US Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio has surpassed Governor Charlie Crist in today’s Quinnipiac poll(47-44). What is surprising to me is, that in such a short period of time,Rubio has done what many thought to be the unthinkable-sprint past Crist! Check out the Quinnipiac Poll results here. To add a little salt to [...]
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February 19, 2010 15 CommentsThe Shark Tank has learned that Florida Tea Party leaders who sued founders of a third political party one month ago have added more than two dozen additional plaintiffs to their suit and filed an amended complaint Wednesday afternoon listing those additional groups and activists. The defendants, Republican consultant Doug Guetzloe and his partners in the [...]
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