Charlie Crist

From the St. Petersburg Times:
Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to turn to his political shadow and former chief of staff, George LeMieux, to stand in as Florida’s U.S. senator until Crist can win the seat himself in the 2010 election.
The governor’s office will announce the decision at 11:15 a.m. today in Tallahassee. Crist has said [...]

A new Rasmussen Reports poll on the 2010 Republican primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat finds Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) leading former state House Speaker Marco Rubio among likely GOP primary voters by a margin of 53 percent to 31 percent. Eric Kleefeld reads this as a failure of Rubio’s attempt to “capitalize on Crist’s [...]

You may recall Michael E. Arth, the spunky developer-turned-Democratic candidate for governor of Florida who took to The Streak’s comment thread to insist he’s dead serious about his campaign. Well, maybe “serious” isn’t exactly the right word. From a press release he just sent out:
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael E. Arth challenged Florida’s top three leaders [...]

It’s all in the lede of this one from Marco Rubio, the conservative Florida Republican who’s running against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in next year’s Senate primary.
Marco is not just a conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan, he’s a conservative in the mold of our Founding Fathers.
The email, written by Dusty Bailey, asks conservatives [...]

The youthful Republican and ex-Speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives is pushing back against unsourced rumors that he’ll drop out of the 2010 U.S. Senate race.
“It’s not true,” Rubio said before addressing a meeting of the Northeast Leon County Conservative Club.
Trailing Gov. Charlie Crist in polls and in fundraising, Rubio said his campaign has been [...]

[UPDATE: I originally misidentified Fiorinia's abortion stance. She's pro-life.]
Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they “lacked a deep bench of viable recruits — and their political hopes were largely dependent on one specific candidate running.” This feeds this week’s meme that Republican [...]

If now is the time for underdogs to shine, we’ll need to take a serious look at Michael E. Arth, an artist, developer, activist and, most recently, Democratic candidate for governor of Florida. He’s the rare aspiring pol with a zero percent unfavorable rating (to one percent favorable and 99 percent shrugged shoulders). And his [...]

Just two weeks ago, Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s trying to replace retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), signed a pledge promising not to raise taxes.
Yesterday he signed a budget that did just that.

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a reaction to last week’s endorsement by the group of Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the Florida U.S. Senate race.
We the undersigned believe that the National Republican Senatorial [...]

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.
Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) by 35 [...]