Tea party activists say they’ll try to serve subpoenas today on Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson and Orlando political consultant Doug Guetzloe in an attempt to prove they conspired to create the Florida Tea Party and field a spoiler candidate in Grayson’s race. Tea party activists began serving subpoenas Wednesday on Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan [...]
From The Washington Post’s afternoon politics update: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) will host a $5,000-per-person fundraiser for Republican Senate nominees Sharron Angle (Nev.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Boozman (Ark.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Dino Rossi (Wash.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) on Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C.
From CQ: Former state Sen. Daniel Webster has collected over $100,000 in online donations since Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) released a campaign ad that called him a religious fanatic and compared his views to those of the Taliban. Grayson’s “Taliban Dan” ad caused a firestorm in GOP circles this week, especially after the independent group [...]
From Kate Kaye of ClickZ: Many political candidates and their campaigns have embraced Twitter, but when they’ve come calling about advertising there, Twitter has not reciprocated. Twitter has only recently begun rolling out its paid products for advertisers, gradually opening services likePromoted Tweets and Promoted Trends to big brands including Starbucks, Disney, and American Express. But [...]
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: “But Marco Rubio out of nowhere looks like he could beat Charlie Crist, who just a few years ago was pretty darn popular.” Governor Jeb Bush: “Well, he still is relatively popular. Popularity’s a fleeting thing. It’s kind of irrelevant in my mind in politics. What Marco has, I think, is something [...]
Today, a coalition of major environmental, business, fishing, and anti-poverty groups dedicated to restoring the Gulf coast has published the results of a poll that measured voters in the region’s likeliness to elect legislators who support Gulf restoration funding. In their press release, the coalition noted: The poll by Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners and [...]
From Matt Dixon: Tom Slade, a Jacksonville resident and former head of the Republican Party of Florida, has been named a co-chairman of Rick Scott’s gubernatorial campaign. He said he has never met Scott, but over several phone conversations became impressed with the former heath care executive. Maybe Slade has seen Masters of the Universe…
H/t to Steve Lapinski at Pinski Politics, who writes: Janet Long is seeking re-election to her Pinellas-based Florida House of Representatives seat and she has released a new TV ad. It features testimonials from business owners in the district, all of whom are talking about her honesty, integrity and focus on bringing new jobs to [...]
