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Jeff Greene airs first 2 Senate ads

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Billionaire and Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene is hitting the airwaves with two ads depicting him as a political outsider and successful businessman. Greene, who earned his riches betting on the real estate market’s rise and fall, is spending more than a million dollars on the statewide ad campaign that begins Tuesday. In both, he highlights the fact that he isn’t a politician. In one, Greene says, “I’m tired of career politicians who are only worried about their own jobs.”…

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Jeff Greene launches web video criticizing Kendrick Meek’s role in earmark scandal

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Experts says Kendrick Meek is wrong to blame Jeff Greene for making investments in credit default swaps

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The Tampa Tribune examines Jeff Greene’s decision to purchase credit default swaps: A CDS is a way of hedging a bet on an investment such as a loan or a purchase of securities. In effect, it’s an insurance policy that pays off if the borrower fails to repay, or if the securities default. Greene’s innovation was to buy CDS’s on securities he didn’t own, making them “uncovered” or “naked” CDS’s – insurance policies on investments actually owned by others. Sensing…

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Jeff Greene blasts Kendrick Meek’s ties to developer charged with fraud

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Kendrick Meek’s rival in the Democratic Senate primary, Jeff Greene, wasted little time before seizing on today’s Miami Herald story showing his family’s ties to an accused crook. “Kendrick Meek’s behavior is completely outrageous,” Greene said in a statement. “We can no longer let the corrupt actions of these failed career politicians stand. Kendrick Meek is in the back pockets of the insidious special interests that are hurting our country and it must end now.”

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Jeff Greene blasts Meek’s ties to developer charged with fraud

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Kendrick Meek’s rival in the Democratic Senate primary, Jeff Greene, wasted little time before seizing on today’s Miami Herald story showing his family’s ties to an accused crook. “Kendrick Meek’s behavior is completely outrageous,” Greene said in a statement. “We can no longer let the corrupt actions of these failed career politicians stand. Kendrick Meek is in the back pockets of the insidious special interests that are hurting our country and it must end now.”

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Thanks to spouse, Charlie Crist is richest of the three leading U.S. Senate candidates.

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Charlie Crist is worth far more than either of the other leading candidates for U.S. Senate, Kendrick Meek and Marco Rubio – thanks to the assets of Crist’s wife, Carole Rome. Florida Trend reports that Crist, the Florida governor and no party affiliation candidate for U.S. Senate reported assets worth $466,063 in his annual state disclosure last year. Rome’s assets didn’t have to be included. In a federal disclosure, which requires candidates to list all marital assets, Crist lists between…

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Kevin Burns ends bid for U.S. Senate to run for State Senate seat Dan Gelber is vacating

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Less than a week after filing papers to run, former North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns will announce at  Wednesday’s Democracy for America meeting in Coral Gables that he is ending his campaign for the U.S. Senate and will instead run for the state Senate seat that Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, is vacating to run for attorney general. With real estate billionaire Jeff Greene announcing on Friday that he would enter the Democratic primary for the Senate, Burns and his team…

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