I guess at some point every Democrat is going to have to make a decision about who to support for Attorney General.  Dave Aronberg or Dan Gelber?  ’Cause you can’t vote for both, as much as we’d all like to. I haven’t fully made up my mind yet.  I want to hear what Gelber has [...]

St. Petersburg on the Fourth of July…family fun, fireworks, and Mayor Bill Foster…where else would you want to celebrate Independence Day? For Marco Rubio, there’s no where else he’d rather be!  The US Senate candidate is coming to the ‘burg to take in St. Pete’s waterfront fireworks display — as a guest of Mayor Bill [...]

Ben Smith is reporting that gubernatorial candidate and anti health care reform crusader Rick Scott is now attacking his Republican opponent, Attorney General Bill McCollum, for endorsing “pro-homosexual rights candidate Rudy Giuliani for president in 2008″: Rick Scott is running for Florida Governor as a “conservative outsider.”…McCollum endorsed pro-abortion and pro-homosexual rights candidate Rudy Giuliani [...]

From the Miami Herald: The Florida Pipe Trades typically leans Democratic in statewide races and heeds the endorsements of its umbrella organization, the AFL-CIO. Not this year. While the AFL-CIO is backing Democrat Kendrick Meek for the U.S. Senate, the12,000 pipefitters, plumbers and welders are going with Gov. Charlie Crist, the Republican-turned-independent candidate. “This is a bit unusual,” said the union’s international [...]

One of my governing theories of politics is, because of the down economy, more and more people will consider running for elected office.  Not because these people all hope to improve the state of government, but because elected office provides economic security, specifically, retirement benefits, in an era when such things are hard to obtain. [...]

Obviously the story of the day is the shooting deaths of two of the City of Tampa’s finest.  This is an atrocious incident, and nothing I would write hasn’t already been written by better journalists, so I’ll just leave this issue alone — while praying for the families of all those involved.  Today would not [...]

Two elected Broward Democrats – Property Appraiser Lori Parrish and state Rep. Ari Porth – are the main hosts of a fundraiser next week for Republican-turned-no party Senate candidate Charlie Crist. By helping the governor raise money, they’re spurning their own party’s leading candidates, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami and Palm Beach billionaire Jeff [...]

The Gradebook asks a very good question: Will scheduling the FCAT on Good Friday causes more problems than its worth. Scheduling classes on certain religious holidays has proven controversial in some Florida school districts. (Think Hillsborough and Good Friday, or Collier and Yom Kippur, to name but two.) So how much of a mess is [...]

This is all from Michael Van Sickler.  I am posting in entirety because it is not in print yet and I don’t want it to get “lost”: An ex-girlfriend of former St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Deveron Gibbons is alleging that he has threatened to harm her and, earlier this month, tried to run her off [...]

What kind of deal did Delmar Johnson III, the former executive director of the Florida GOP, get from prosecutors to provide evidence against his boss, former state party chairman Jim Greer? No prison. No probation. No fine. No criminal record. Johnson, from Winter Garden, must repay the $65,000 that prosecutors say he stole from the party. That’s [...]