So much for the state Party’s efforts to playdown the importance of primaries during the 2010 election cycle. Attorney General Bill McCollum is the establishment favor to take the Republican’s nomination for the Governors race. So much so that it seems Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson was pressured out of the race, but the…
Here is an informative and entertaining video explaining how we are all probably socialists for going to the beach all the time. Happy Memorial Day weekend. [Wonkette: Beaches Are Communist; Stay Home This Weekend]…
‘Tis the season for former speakers of the state house to run to the right of front runners in Republican primaries it seems. Marco Rubio is already in an uphill battle in the senate primary against Charlie Crist, and now March on Politics reports that former speaker and state Senator…
Growing up in Florida I’ve been to the Magic Kingdom a respectable amount of times, and yet I’ve never been to the hall of Presidents. By most accounts it’ can be a terrifying and awkward thing. One of the main points of the show, I’m told, is a speech by an animatronic version…
The Herald’s Marc Caputo was wondering if Dick Cheney ever crawled out of the hyperbolic chamber that keeps him alive in the torture dungeon basement of his demon castle, located somewhere southwest of Hell, and decided to campaign on Charlie Crist’s behalf in the Senate race, would Charlie accept? Slippery Crist, of course,…
If politics really does come down to which candidate you’d rather have a beer with, then Bill McCollum’s candidacy might as well be dead on arrival. The guy has never really screamed excitement or personality, but that hasn’t stopped him from seeking stat-wide elected office in Florida now for four time (loosing two, winning…
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson will not run for Governor. Not that any one is that surprised, since the state party and major fundraisers were already congealing around Attorney General Bill McCollum. Bronson had earlier claimed that since his name was displayed on every gas pump in the state it would…
When Charlie Crist stood on stage with President Obama in February I wonder if Crist had any idea that he’d actually be running for Senate. As a popular incumbent running for re-election the political risk would be lessened. Well, the risk of standing with a popular, newly elected president who won your state…
The Buzz has the full list of members on the Bill McCollum for governor finance committee. It is a massive thing full of the state’s top Republican business men, lawyers, lobbyists and other assorted movers and shakers. Then again, what do you expect on a finance committee? Though, you might not…
The latest Anti-Crist ad from the Florida Democratic party is pretty damn effective, and you can thank whatever stock score they dug up for that. It’s that kind of music that plays in a period drama when a once proud girl from a Noble family falls on hard times and…
The picture of the 2010 races aren’t even in perfect focus yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for a poll. Mason-Dixon unleashed their first poll post-Crist-for-Senate announcement, and things don’t look too good for the Democrats. In the Senate race Charlie Crist (with a 49% favorable rating) crushes his primary competition Marco Rubio…
Sometime there’s benefits to running for office even if you have a snowballs chance of winning. Take Annette Taddeo for example. The self made Colombian-American millionaire ran against popular incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtnin for Congress last Fall. Though, she ran a surprisingly strong and respectable campaign that gave her a foot…
As expected, Attorney General Bill McCollu m officially entered the governor’s race this morning. This is, as the Democrats were so quick to point out, McCollum’s 14th race for public office in his lifetime, including two failed senate bids. So he’s no stranger to the Florida electorate. Though, his role as…
Good news for Charlie Crist, bumbling GOP chairman Michael Steele isn’t lining up behind his bid for U.S. Senate just yet. Despite the rare early pre-primary endorsement Crist picked up from the NRSC, while on Meet the Press yesterday with Democrat chairman Tim Kaine he stated that the full force…
Everyone loves wondering what Mayor Manny Diaz is going to do next after his reign is up later this year. Apparently, the latest murmur is that he should run for CFO. Which, like him or not makes sense. One of his crowning achievements was turning the City of Miami from a bankrupt, junk…
So after the NRSC endorsed Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in the Republican Senate primary, a lot of people implied it was a snub to Hispanics. We thought this was silly. Crist has won three statewide campaigns in a row, is an extremely popular governor, and has a national profile…
So the game of political musical chairs continues. The Orlando Sentinel says current senate President Jeff Atwater is going to throw his hat into the CFO ring on Tuesday. Atwater, a Republican from North Palm Beach, served in the state house from 2001-2003 and has been in the senate since then…
To most of Florida Lt. Gov Jeff Kottkamp is known for precisely two things: his string of travel scandals and his mustache. Now he’d like to be known as our Attorney General as well. The Republican from SW Florida was picked as Crist’s running mate to bring a conservative balance to Crist’s…
According to Naked Politics, Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum will officially enter the Governor’s race on Monday in Orlando. McCollum spent 20 years in the US House. A career that included a number of high profile leadership and chairmen positions. He tried to run for Senate in 2000, but lost in…
It is an open secret amongst the Florida political establishment that Gov. Charlie Crist has a penchant for tanning. While the mainstream press often shies away from openly discussing the issue, Crist’s hidden tanning habit is explored in detail in Kirby Dick’s new movie Outrage: The Hidden Story of America’s…
In light of some of the GOP’s other recent decisions, it’s hard to find fault with the NRSC’s early endorsement of Charlie Crist in the Republican primary for Florida’s open senate seat. It may be the smartest move the national party has made in some time, but that doesn’t mean people…
The unfortunate working assumption amongst just about everyone right now is that Dan Gelber or Kendrick Meek is going to lose to Charlie Crist in 2010. The only question is “which one?”Naked Politics is reporting that the Democratic National Senatorial Committee is whispering in Gelber’s ear that he should drop…
