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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio expressed concerns over President Barack Obama’s choice of Ron Klain as the country’s Ebola czar, in charge of America’s preparation efforts. In a statement released Friday, Rubio also repeated his call for a visa ban on countries affected by the deadly disease. “It’s important that the U.S. have someone officially in charge of coordinating the federal government’s response to the Ebola outbreak, both overseas and here at home,” the Florida Senator said. It is a “complex challenge”…

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Nearly six in 10 likely House District 59 voters want to re-elect first-term state Rep. Ross Spano, who holds a 23-point lead over Democratic challenger Donna Lee Fore in a new survey from StPetePolls. Spano, a Republican attorney from Riverview, received 57 percent of likely voters polled Oct. 14 in the district covering most of central Hillsborough County. Fore, co-owner of P.F. Auto Glass in Tampa took 34 percent, with 9 percent of respondents remaining undecided. Republicans surveyed overwhelmingly support Spano…

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A friend who owns properties in Tallahassee told me he had no interest in buying the The Florida Press Center because there would be less turnover in a halfway house than in a building where newspaper, television, radio and wire services reporters work. That Dean Wormer, err, Ridings, president and CEO of the FPA, was able to unload this halfway house of media organization on a buyer demonstrates that Ridings is a capable executive when it comes to real estate deals.…

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Floridians dislike both Democrat Charlie Crist and Republican Gov. Rick Scott, but those are the choices voters face—for the most part. For now, says Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight.com, Crist appears to be the most popular choice. In the vast majority of polls from earlier in the year, Crist was leading, mostly due to his bipartisan appeal. After all, Enten writes, Crist was a Republican once. The problem is now he is a Democrat; a there is a case to be…

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a leading proponent of imposing a travel ban to limit the spread of Ebola, now says the latest developments involving health care workers in Dallas show the need for a more coordinated and better-managed response here at home. The U.S. needs one take-charge person in place to oversee the containment of and response to the threat of this serious infectious disease. “If there’s a will, there’s a way,” Nelson said today in Orlando.  “This person should…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the firm best known for smart, strong and strategic counsel across the diverse and ever-changing media landscape: “Boardwalk Empire” fans take note: On this date in 1931, notorious mobster and part-time Florida resident Al “Scarface” Capone was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison on a rather unlikely charge: tax evasion. Capone, who virtually ruled Chicago…

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Florida is, again, the laughinstock of the nation. A day after Gov. Rick Scott waited seven minutes before appearing onstage for Wednesday night’s debate, #Fangate was the lead story on The Daily Show. Below is a rough, rough cut of the segment (with me laughing in the background). lectern near his feet, and Scott’s handlers demanded that the moderators do something. But then they were on live TV, facing an empty stage. Crist soon appeared, and CBS4 anchor Eliott Rodriguez turned…

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