My blogging colleague Michael Hussey over at Pushing Rope looks like he has a bombshell of a revelation regarding Tim Kuebler, an appointee to Rick Scott’s economic transition team. Before Kuebler was pouring foundations in Florida, he was part of the management team of Builder’s Concrete and Supply Co. Kuebler’s profile on the Titan Florida Cement [...]
With Florida Republicans set to choose a new leader in January, an anonymous attack campaign has been launched against Hillsborough GOP chief Deborah Cox-Roush, who is running for state party chairwoman. The broadsides hitting Republican mail boxes highlight payments made to her catering company by the local GOP and her minimal contributions to candidates and [...]
Sarasota GOP Chair Joe Gruters has officially launches his campaign for RPOF with the unveiling of a website and message to the RPOF’s executive committee.
Leave it to Senator Jack Latvala, already one of the most experienced legislators in Florida’s capital, to stock his office with three veteran staffers. Sen. Latvala has hired Tracy Caddell, who worked previously in Latvala’s Senate office and most recently for Rep. Tom Anderson, Jennifer Wilson, a former aide to Senator Victor Crist and Courtney Vandenburg [...]
If there is any Florida politician who didn’t get what he deserved, it’s conscientious former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald. Hopefully, Fitz will blow out the candles on his birthday cake, wish for a second chance and see his wish granted soon enough.
Put it this way, Marco Rubio would be starting off a presidential campaign much closer in the polls to Barack Obama than he was in his US Senate race against Charlie Crist and we all know how that turned out. At least that’s one nugget which may be gleamed from a new poll from Public [...]
A study led by Seth C. McKee, associate professor of political science at USF St. Petersburg, finds many voters behaved strategically in Florida’s three-way U.S. Senate race. The surveyed voters opted for Independent Charlie Crist, their second-choice candidate after Democrat Kendrick Meek, in hopes of denying poll-favored Republican Marco Rubio the Senate seat. McKee and [...]
From the Wall Street Journal: “[A]t least 15% [of the 94 incoming House freshmen] plan to bed down in their congressional offices. It’s the ultimate I’m-not-a-professional-politician statement, reminiscent of the 1994 midterm elections, when a GOP House takeover led to a surge in House sleepovers. …[A] key selling point [in choosing office space] was not [...]
Today’s agenda on Saint Petersblog seems like its filled with ‘old business’ items. Case in point is the letter I received on Friday from the Florida Elections Commission notifying me that it has found probable cause that Marg Baker violated the state’s election laws by not properly disclaiming her campaign. I filed this complaint and [...]
Candidate qualifying for two seats on the Tarpon Springs City Commission closed last Wednesday and five candidates ended up throwing their hats in the ring: For Seat #1: Townsend Tarapani and Crissy Cladakis For Seat #2: Jeff Antous, Tim Keffalas and incumbent Susan Slattery.
