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Meet Anna Alexopoulos, the new face of Charlie Crist in South Florida

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Her name is Anna Alexopoulos, and today was her first day as field director for Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign in Broward and Palm Beach counties. She hit the ground running by making sure Crist had a good turnout (about 300 people) at tonight’s Broward Republican Party meeting. Alexopoulos is 24 years old, lives in Plantation and has served as president of the Broward Young Republicans for nearly two years. Until this week, she was the senior executive assistant/office manager for…

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Latest polls show Bill McCollum, Charlie Crist cruising

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Republican Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum leads the state’s Chief Financial Officer, Democrat Alex Sink, 38 – 34 percent, among registered voters in the 2010 governor’s race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This reverses a 38 – 34 percent Sink lead in a June 9 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. The key is among independent voters who shift from 32 – 27 percent for McCollum June 9 to 38 – 23 percent today. Gov. Charlie…

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527 airs first attack ad against Alex Sink

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Jax Online: One of the hottest issues emerging in the statewide races coming up in 2010 appears to be travel on state aircraft. Florida Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp was the first to come under fire for what some deemed as “excessive” travel on state aircraft on the taxpayers dime. Kottkamp, a rumored candidate for Attorney General, has moved to put the accusations to rest by reimbursing the state and hiring a well-respected legal team to assist in fighting ethics complaints.…

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Bill McCollum has worked part-time for the past two months, schedule shows

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From the Palm Beach Post: Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has carried a part-time workload for the past two months, according to his schedule posted on his Web site. McCollum, a Republican who announced his candidacy for governor on May 18, has worked an average of about 22 hours a week since May 1, the records show. During the same period, McCollum has averaged nearly 17 hours a week of “personal time” during normal business hours. He has worked 178…

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Paula Dockery’s FB status hints at a run

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I was just stalking Paula Dockery on Facebook and was intrigued by her current status: “Met all day with political expert. Another step in the due diligence.” Is there any doubt about her running? Bill McCollum can’t beat Alex Sink, but maybe Dockery could?

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Wayne Garcia: Charlie Crist from green to ‘gutless’?

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A must-read from Creative Loafing’s Wayne Garcia: It was zenith of his 2007 pledge to turn Florida green, lower emissions and grow a biofuel industry. Last year, he laid out a $200 million investment in his green vision. But today, as Crist is all but a lame duck governor running for the U.S. Senate, very few of those hopes and promises have come true. Blame the knuckle-draggers in the Legislature. Blame the recession. Or, if you are like some environmentalists…

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Southern Political Report: Charlie Crist-Marco Rubio battle marks the GOP’s ideological divide

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Rush Limbaugh and Gen. Colin Powell campaign against each other on the airwaves. Yet there will be no settling the score between them at the ballot box. To decide their squabble about the definition and direction of the Republican Party, proxies will stand in next year in Florida’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate. Moderate Gov. Charlie Crist is the prohibitive favorite, of course. He has long since made the watershed rite of passage necessary to make his name known to…

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