Last week, TWI’s video team brought you 90 seconds of insight into the 2010 campaign season. If you’re ready for more, check out, below the jump, this more extensive look at races to watch in the coming months.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington apparently thinks the race for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat is corrupt all around. Yesterday it listed the three top candidates in the race — Gov. Charlie Crist (I), Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) and former state House Speaker More…
The American Action Network, a “center-right” Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization,” is running a television ad in Tampa and the Florida panhandle targeting Gov. Charlie Crist (R, running for Senate as an independent) for changing positions on various policies. The ad features a man getting Crist’s positions tattooed on More…
Travis Pillow, who has been owning the Florida oil spill beat of late at our sister publication The Florida Independent, reported yesterday that Gov. Charlie Crist’s efforts to get the state legislature to pass a joint resolution allowing for a voter referendum on a constitutional drilling ban have failed. More…
Following up on my piece today on the increasing odds of a utilities-only carbon cap — particularly given a supportive statement from swing Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) — Marc Ambinder writes:
Snowe is a signaler: if she’s on board with a bill, then Sen. Susan Collins, Scott Brown,
The hype around the Florida Senate race was focused on Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio, who sparred for the GOP nomination before the former was forced to go independent. But now there’s a new twist: Presumptive Democratic candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek is now in a dead heat with billionaire More…
Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who hope to prevent the disaster from fouling the state’s $60 billion per year tourism industry. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Officials on Thursday
Today’s news that former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer was under arrest provided state Democrats with new glue in their ongoing effort to stick his spending misuse allegations to leading Republican candidates and independent Senate hopeful Charlie Crist.
Greer faces six charges — four counts of felony grand theft More…
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has now distanced himself even further from state Republicans, this time by wading into a contentious battle over dueling redistricting amendments.
During a meeting with the Miami Herald’s editorial board this week, Crist endorsed a pair of ballot initiatives sponsored by the citizens More…
Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) changed his party affiliation last year from Republican to Democrat ahead of this year’s difficult primary race. Republican Gov. Charlie Crist recently announced recently that he will make an Independent bid for Senate in the face of a tough GOP primary challenge in Florida. Now, will More…
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