The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder writes: The RNC meets this week, Watch for: Wednesday’s announcement that Tampa will be chosen as the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention. I’m 90 percent sure of that. Other finalists are Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder writes: The RNC meets this week, Watch for: Wednesday’s announcement that Tampa will be chosen as the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention. I’m 90 percent sure of that. Other finalists are Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
In preparation for a visit from the Site Selection Committee for the 2012 Republican National Convention, Tampa Bay and Company is calling on community members to display signs of welcome. The Site Selection Committee is scheduled to tour the Tampa-St. Petersburg area March 28-30. The visit will be a chance for the Tampa Bay area to show it can handle an event of the size and scope of the Republican National Convention, said Paul Catoe, president and chief executive officer…
Politico reports that a top-secret Republican National Committee fundraising presentation — which lampoons President Barack Obama as the Joker from Batman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Ville — was left at a Florida hotel. “The 72-page document was provided to POLITICO by a Democrat, who said a hard copy had been left in the hotel hosting the $2,500-a-head retreat, the Gasparilla Inn & Club.” Read through the document and take a look at page 19, a list…
2:03 p.m. – According to reports to be filed with FEC by Bright House Networks, just over $80,000 was spent on political TV advertising by all candidates in the St. Petersburg Municipal Elections. 1:30 p.m. – Johnny Bardine on Jim Kennedy’s win: “When I first met with Jim, it was obvious that he was earnest, hardworking, thoughtful. He deserved to stay on city council but wasn’t sure how to run a campaign. Nick Denmon and I sat in his office…
Old grudges die hard, and at the Republican National Committee (RNC) meeting this week, some wounds from this year’s contentious election for chairman are being reopened. Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party and a key ally of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, is running to head the party’s influential Rules Committee, with Steele’s backing. That doesn’t sit well with some conservatives, who see Greer as a centrist. Former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, who came in second…
From Andrew Pavelyev’s New Majority Blog: “Are conservatives nuts? I keep hearing wild enthusiasm about Marco Rubio’s challenge to Charlie Crist. But why make the perfect the enemy of the good? This is not merely about the next election. That seat will be up for reelection in 2016. By that time Fidel will be 90 and almost certainly dead. Raul is just a few years younger, and his chances to make it are not all that great either. In any…
