From the Desk of Danny Diaz via Mike Allen’s Political Playbook: Playoff PAC, the principal opposition group to college football’s Bowl Championship Series, … [cites] evidence uncovered through a series of recent public-records requests. That evidence indicates that the BCS’s Orange Bowl, which is organized as a public charity, used its charitable funds to treat [...]
Via Kevin Derby: CNN listed their top five political gaffes of 2010 — and state CFO Alex Sink made the list. Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, placed third on the list for checking a text message during a debate with Republican rival Rick Scott which was a violation of the rules. Commenting on the list, Republican [...]
From Public Policy Polling: Marco Rubio is probably the most hyped of the 2011 freshman Senate class, to the extent that there’s already discussion about him as a possible 2012 Presidential candidate. Our latest Florida poll though suggests that it might be time for everyone to slow down a little bit on that front. Rubio [...]
With New Year’s Eve upon us, The Daily Beast ranks which cities are overzealous when it comes to tossing back a few. From Vegas to Milwaukee, these are the towns with an alcohol problem. Most American adults enjoy a regular tipple, and most health experts say that’s a good thing, if kept to single drink a [...]
Former City Councilman and current candidate for Mayor, Bob Buckhorn, called on the Tampa City Council to place an economic incentive package on the March ballot. “Now more than ever, Tampa needs to be more competitive to attract high paying and high tech jobs,” said Buckhorn. This ballot referendum would mirror a similar measure passed [...]
Acclaimed journalist Greta Van Susteren will be the keynote speaker at the Salute to Women in Leadership Breakfast, as announced today by the 2011 Florida Inaugural Committee. Van Susteren, a Fox News Channel anchor, will speak at the Monday, January 3, 2011 non-partisan breakfast, the first of a dozen events occurring in Tallahassee surrounding the [...]
Washington D.C. lobbyists and lawmakers appear to be partying more this holiday season than a year ago. The city’s high-end hotels are busier hosting more festive events this month vs. a year ago, hoteliers tell Hotel Check-In and the Washington Post. The Washington Post reports that the Marriott Wardman Park hotel had seen clients book fewer holiday [...]
Check out today’s letters-to-the-editor section of the Wall Street Journal and you will come across a familiar name: controversial, race-baitin’ Tea Partier doc David McKalip, who doesn’t seem to be a fan of the St. Petersburg Times‘ Pulitzer prize-winning PolitiFact operation writing: So PolitiFact deems that “a government takeover of health care” is a “lie” [...]
The Sunshine State not only ranks in the national top tier for unemployment and foreclosures, it’s also at the top echelon for forgetting its children. Thanks to legislative inaction last year, the state is poised once again to forfeit tens of millions of dollars from the federal government set aside for enrolling uninsured children in [...]
In a revelation that’s sure to make many liberals scratch their heads and say, “Wait, what? Conservatives have brains?”, a new study by Great Britain’s University College London has found that conservatives’ brains have larger fear centers, and smaller courage and optimism dealies. The study did not, however, address any correlation to cable news ratings. Coming as it [...]
