Charlie Crist

Independent Charlie Crist was elected governor as a Republican in 2006 after four years as state attorney general. He has also served as a state senator and education commissioner. Facing low poll numbers, Crist announced in May he would leave the GOP to run for Senate as unaffiliated candidate.

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Everglades Boosters: Environmental Restoration Can Spur Economy, Bipartisanship

By Amy Green

WESTON, Fla. -- During the worst recession in a generation, we can't afford to engage in environmental restoration. Or can we? Tying environmental restoration to economic recovery is the emerging ...

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The Doors Want Apology, Not Pardon, for Jim Morrison

By David Lohr

The surviving members of the Doors are unimpressed with a posthumous pardon that was recently granted in Florida to their late frontman, Jim Morrison. They think the state owes him a formal ...

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'No Labels' Wants to Deliver on Public's Cry for Change, but Will It Work?

By Linda Killian

NEW YORK – At the rollout for No Labels at Columbia University on Monday, one of the group's founders called the event "our little Woodstock of democracy." But the well- organized event, with ...

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This Is the End for Jim Morrison's Nudity Case

By Deborah Hastings

(Dec. 9) -- The story begins in 1969, on an exceptionally hot night in an overcrowded concert hall in Miami. An exceptionally drunk Jim Morrison, slurring and screaming, stops singing "Touch Me," and ...

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Charlie Crist to Get His Long-Awaited Pardon of Jim Morrison

By David Knowles

(Dec. 8) -- He broke on through. Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has secured enough votes on the state's Executive Clemency Board to ensure that Jim Morrison, the former lead singer of seminal ...

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