Late word coming in that Winthrop “Winnie” Newton, brother of St. Petersburg City Councilman Wengay Newton, has lost his re-election bid as head of the St. Petersburg Firefighters union.  He has been replaced by Michael Blank. Developing…

PPP’s newest Florida poll brings good news and bad news for Rick Scott. The good news is that his numbers are on the rise.  36% of voters now approve of him to 52% disapproving. That represents a 10 point improvement in his net approval from when we last polled the state in June, when he [...]

Barely a month after controversial conservative blogger Nadia Naffe attacked Kevin Beckner with unsubstantiated innuendos about his personal finances, Hillsborough County Commission candidate Margaret Iuculano has come as close to playing the “gay card” as can be done without actually photoshopping Beckner’s face on a rainbow flag. In an end-of-the-quarter fundraising letter, Iuculano writes of [...]

So I was looking to find a silver-lining in Florida State’s loss to Clemson last week in their match-up of ACC football powerhouses. The good news is I, in fact, found such a silver-lining.  The even better news is it had nothing to do with what happened on the football field. According to local station [...]

Here is the most exciting/frightening implication of Florida moving it’s presidential primary to Jan. 31, 2012: Florida election law provides that ballots for military and overseas voters MUST be in the mail no later than 45 days before the election date, while ballots to domestic early voters MUST be in the mail no later than [...]

An ad hoc committee charged with determining the date of Florida’s presidential primary has voted 7 to 2 to set the election for January 31, a move which is sure to throw national and statewide politics for a major loop as the presidential candidates scramble in the expensive Sunshine State, while also campaigning in the [...]

A circuit court judge has ruled that a plan to privatize 29 prisons was unconstitutional in the way the Legislature enacted it, reports the News Service of Florida. Judge Jackie Fulford agreed with a corrections officers union, invalidating the plan. Developing…

The New York Times reports via The Political Wire that President Obama’s re-election campaign “is charting an alternative course to re-election should he be unable to win Ohio and other industrial states traditionally essential to Democratic presidential victories.” “Without conceding ground anywhere, Mr. Obama is fighting hard for Southern and Rocky Mountain states he won in 2008, [...]

The New York Times confirms reports that the radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen. First Read: “No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama. The death of bin Laden. The dismantling of al Qaeda. The ouster of Khaddafy. And the end of [...]

New Romney video hammers Rick Perry on immigration… …(shows pics of President Obama, Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid) and includes Perry’s debate bite: “I don’t think you have a heart.” …Perry campaign Communications Director Ray Sullivan was in-studio with Sean Hannity and Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom as the video debuted and said: “That’s [...]