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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May 24, 2012

Mack opens big lead in Florida GOP Senate contest

Source: Crestview News Bulletin - Crestview FL

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV of Fort Myers has become the frontrunner in a three-way contest for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows.

May 24, 2012

Florida Morning: 'Pass through' program not news to Senate's top 2; dueling Senate polls

Source: The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine FL

Senate President Mike Haridopolos and budget chief JD Alexander.

May 24, 2012

Collins to slam Secret Service, Massie/Cotton win GOP nods in Ky., Ark., LeMieux's bare-knuckle politics, Hochul bucks Dems, Liljenquist uses Hatch's '76 playbook, Ryan at Reagan Library

Source: Politico

Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is none too pleased with the Secret Service.

May 23, 2012

Colin Powell questions Mitt Romney's foreign policy, comes out in support of gay marriage

Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC

Colin Powell wants Romney to think, a Democratic Senate candidate says Obama failed his one test, Richard Mourdock is doing some spring cleaning and Jesse Kelly's spokesman did not like a question.

May 23, 2012

LeMieux Used Bare-Knuckled Politics to Win Senate Appointment

Source: The Ledger - Lakeland FL

Gov. Charlie Crist's.

How LeMieux pulled it off ? tapped to serve a vacant Senate seat in 2009 by a governor who had reservations about his former chief of staff ? speaks volumes about LeMieux's ambition, savvy and knack for bare-knuckle politics that's again playing out as he campaigns to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

"He really wanted to do it. So he was going to do everything he could," former Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp said.