Here it is in a recent news release from House Republican leader John Boehner: “PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress.” The release said, “The conventional wisdom is being turned upside down as House Republicans demonstrate an unmatched ability to connect with the American people on the Internet’s most popular communities. Once [...]

Is this a movie for our times, or what? Love the new quote: “Someone reminded me I once said, ‘Greed is good.’ Now it seems it’s legal.”

He’s doing such an amazing job with the situation in Haiti, it’s hard to make fun of him, but Can someone tell my boy Kendrick Meek that it’s Wyclef Jean not Jean Cluade Van Damme!

After new poll showed his GOP Senate primary challenger Marco Rubio taking a narrow lead, Florida’s Republican governor Charlie Crist met Barack Obama today in Tampa Bay, where the president announced $8 billion in stimulus funding for a high-speed rail stations. Having been needled relentlessly by Rubio for supporting the stimulus and hugging Barack Obama [...]

From CNN: If Kendrick Meek and Marco Rubio win their respective party nominations for the Florida Senate race, do you think they will travel together on the campaign trail? Unlikely. But on Thursday, the two Senate hopefuls found themselves on the same flight from Tampa to Ft. Lauderdale, and each “tweeted” about it on the [...]

At approximately 9:40 p.m., the Supervisor of Elections office in Hillsborough County announced that Cruz had taken 58 more votes than Kemp, and won by 2%, 47-45. Gil Sanchez finished in 3rd place with 8% of the vote. Stunningly, the margin in Hunter Chamberlin’s defeat of Jackie Rojas-Quinones in the GOP primary was just 12 [...]

From the Buzz: We just caught up with Republican former St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Deveron Gibbons awaiting the president’s arrival at the University of Tampa. Charlie Crist was a big Gibbons supporter, and Gibbons — along with Republican St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster — dismissed the idea that Crist could face more backlash for appearing [...]

It’s not even Spring yet, much less the dog days of Summer, but it’s time to start planning for July 28. That’s the day Dave Matthews Band comes to Tampa Bay.

And here’s the letter Crist wrote to Obama:

The St. Petersburg City Council was advised this week not to meet with a coalition of businessmen and community leaders who are recommending that the Tampa Bay Rays need a new baseball stadium. Any discussions about a new stadium “should be between the Rays and the City,” City attorney John Wolfe and senior administrator Rick [...]