Legislative candidate Dane Eagle with Senator John McCain
Legislative candidate Dane Eagle with Senator John McCain.
Are Christopher Nolan's movies all about exposition?
James Verini argues that Christopher Nolan’s greatest films are best understood as games: They are contests with rules and phases, gambits and defenses, many losers and the occasional victor, usually a Pyrrhus type. Take “Inception.” Many thrilled to this story about corporate spies who invade dreams, but smart critics tended to find it, like Slate’s Dana Stevens, “mind-blowing but not heart-moving.” On the whole, men like it more than women. I was confused by this until one female friend cut me off…
Direct mail round-up: Outside group attacks Jeff Brandes…again
Another day, another direct mailpiece sent in the race for State Senate District 22 between Jeff Brandes and Jim Frishe. Last week, a group called Accountability in Government sent out negative mailers about Frishe. Accountability in Government has received money from a web of other groups, including a committee headed by Brandes and a political fund with ties to Negron and other senators. In mailboxes today is piece from the Committee to Protect Florida, an electioneering organization supportive of Frishe. Two…
Former Crist spokeswoman, Erin Isaac, leaves high-profile job with Linda McMahon's US Senate campaign
Erin Isaac, one-time communications director in Charlie Crist’s gubernatorial administration, has left another high-profile campaign position, this time parting ways with Linda McMahon’s US Senate campaign in Connecticut. While the campaign confirmed Isaac’s departure, it did not say why it has lost a member of its public affairs team so close to the Aug. 14 primary. Isaac’s departure does follow an increasing number of press accounts that McMahon’s campaign was “off script.” Previous to working on McMahon’s campaign, Isaac was involved…
The Postal Service is about to default, but so what…
“The Postal Service, faced with continuing financial losses because of a drop in mail volume, expects to default for the first time on its annual payment for future retiree health benefits,” according to the New York Times. “The $5.5 billion payment, which was deferred from the 2011 fiscal year, is due Aug. 1. The Postal Service is also scheduled to make a $5.6 billion payment for 2012 in September. A spokesman for the agency said that barring intervention from Congress, it…
RNC event at Tropicana Field forces cancellations at USF St. Pete
The annual freshmen convocation, move-in dates for students and watercraft at USF St. Petersburg have been canceled, changed and grounded in light of new restrictions put in place during the Republican National Convention Kick-Off party at Tropicana Field, reports William Mansell of Patch. On Aug. 26, 20,000 delegates and members of the media are expected at the home of the Rays for a cocktail party to kick-off the week’s RNC event, which are mostly held in Tampa Bay. The USF St. Pete…
George W. Bush not coming to RNC in Tampa and that's a good thing
In what is being described a classic Friday news dump, it was announced that former President George W. Bush will not attend the Republican National Convention next month in Tampa. “President Bush was grateful for the invitation to the Republican National Convention,” wroted Bush spokesman Freddy Ford in an e-mail to POLITICO. “He supports Governor Romney and wants him to succeed. President Bush is confident that Mitt Romney will be a great President. But he’s still enjoying his time off…