My colleague Luke Johnson got some reaction from the Sierra Club on Kendrick Meek’s rejection of the environmental group’s endorsement. Meek rejected the endorsement because the Sierra Club also endorsed his opponent for the Senate seat, Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent.
Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) rejected the Sierra Club’s endorsement today in his campaign for the Senate in Florida, citing frustration that the environmental group co-endorsed him and Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for the Senate seat as an independent.
In a statement, Meek said:
This election is
Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as “wrong” a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to complicate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s primary campaign.
Our sister publication The Florida Independent notes that LeMieux pushed back against the New Yorker story More…
Florida governor Charlie Crist, who’s running for Senate as an independent, said Social Security could remain solvent longer if more immigrants were able to become legalized and pay into the system. Crist said he would push for immigration reform if elected to the Senate so that illegal immigrants in the More…
BP expects to have the well completely sealed by this weekend.
The company announced the end of the Vessels of Opportunity program, in which local boaters and fishermen were employed to help contain the spill and clean up the oil, in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
The Interior Department More…
The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack ads targeting “the liberal, out-of-touch records of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Gov. Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold, Michael Bennet, and Harry More…
Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fla.) campaign was relying on a bump in the polls following his victory over Jeff Greene in Florida’s Senate primary, and a new CNN/Time poll indicates that he may have gotten one. He still trails both former House Speaker Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Gov. Charlie More…
Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In California, former governor and current gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D) has finally made his first ad purchase of his general election campaign against Meg More…
As we head into Labor Day weekend, candidates’ campaigns, along with their political ads, are beginning to transform from a marathon to a sprint. Thus far the public has mainly seen issue advertisements from outside groups looking to influence the elections indirectly by harping on issues like the stimulus and More…
This weekend, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that “it was too soon to say” whether the Obama administration might revive its $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers or $6,500 credit for other home buyers.
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