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Marco Rubio, the conservative underdog in the 2010 GOP primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, tells CNN that Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) made a “disappointing pick” when he appointed his friend and adviser George LeMieux to the seat.
George LeMieux is a talented political operative and the governor’s best friend, but that doesn’t make him the [...]

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 [...]

He’s made the cover of National Review. Why worry about that? Well …

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 [...]

Saying that he can’t support the health reform bill working its way through the House, Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), a member of the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats, told a town hall gathering yesterday that he supports scrapping the overhaul proposal in favor of more gradual reforms. From CNN:
When a questioner, Ray Evans, said he believed [...]

This is the sort of big-headline political news that won’t matter much in the long run.
Though he has persistently denied the “rumor” that he’ll step down, Florida Sen. Mel Martinez might announce as early as Friday that he’ll leave office early, according to a number of sources in the state and nation’s capitals.
“It’s a deeply [...]

Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel who’s making his second run for Congress from a south Florida swing district next year, pens a column for Human Events that touches on almost every far-right base. West is angry that Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.), the incumbent congressman, isn’t making himself available for town halls, and that Democrats [...]

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 [...]

Eric Kleefeld has the numbers, donations from GOP leadership PACs to the Florida Republican and infamous sponsor of the “Birther Bill” that is quietly gaining popularity in the House:
Minority Leader John Boehner’s PAC, the Freedom Project, donated $5,000 to Posey’s campaign in June. Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s ERICPAC gave $7,500.

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 [...]