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Restoration Denied!

According to the speaker of Florida’s state House, Jeb Bush is passing on a 2010 Senate run.
“He said it just wasn’t the right timing,” [Marco] Rubio said, recounting a phone call he received this afternoon from the former Florida governor and presidential brother.
Bush, who left office in 2007, cited his desire to explore other professional [...]

Minn. Court to Coleman Lawyer: ‘This Is Not Florida’

Sen. Norm Coleman’s counsel argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court today that wrongly rejected absentee ballots should not be counted in the U.S. Senate canvass, as their inclusion would represent “an invitation to go to Florida,” according to The Minnesota Independent.
But Justice Paul Anderson cut him off and retorted, “This is not Florida. I’m just [...]

Congress to Detroit: Want Your Bailout? Quit Opposing New Emission Standards

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) offers a new angle today on the Detroit bailout, saying that he’ll support the plan only if the automakers stop trying to kill states’ efforts to tighten emission standards.
California has famously applied for an Environmental Protection Agency waiver forcing emission reductions of 30 percent by 2016. But the automakers claim the [...]

Florida’s Martinez to Retire

One-term Florida GOP Sen. Mel Martinez has decided he won’t shoot for a second term in 2010. From his long and winding statement:

Legal Skirmishes Continue Through Election Day

Never have lawyers been so busy skirmishing over an election  — and it probably won’t end on Election Day.
Today’s lawsuits and rulings include:
The Ohio GOP filed a lawsuit it had previously dropped against Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic secretary of state, claiming she hasn’t done enough to ensure that all provisional ballots are counted fairly and [...]

McCain ‘Releases’ Old Ad on Iran

If there were any lingering doubts that the McCain campaign is running low on ideas, the “release” of its “latest” television ad today should lay them to rest. From a McCain campaign press release:

McCain’s Fuzzy Math Equals Obama Victory

Talking Points Memo reports that the McCain campaign is shifting its ad spending away from Colorado and states won by Sen. John Kerry in 2004 to those won by President George W. Bush, particularly Virginia and Florida.
That’s all well and good — except that the numbers still add up to a victory for Sen. Barack [...]

McCain Handlers to Press: Get Out, Lest Someone Say Something Nice

A nugget contained in a pool report from one of Sen. John McCain’s campaign stops at a periodontal clinic in Altamonte Springs, Fla., illustrates just how silly and counterproductive the campaign’s hyper-control of its traveling press can be:

GOP Officials May Challenge Foreclosed Voters in States Beyond MI

GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
According to local media in counties in each of these states — in Columbus, Ohio, Marion County, Ind., and Volusia County, Fla. — GOP operatives [...]

Florida Gov. Crist Off Message on Voter Fraud

Possibly to rebut media reports that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and the state’s Republican Party are distancing themselves from the McCain campaign’s recent negativity, Crist put in a quick appearance on a hastily scheduled campaign conference call with reporters this afternoon.
The call, announced two minutes in advance, allowed Crist and Doug Holtz-Eakin, Sen. John McCain’s [...]