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Maurice Ferre attacks Kendrick Meek over Charles Rangel – but does he have to use the word ‘lash’ when criticizing an African-American candidate?

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The Buzz is reporting that: Underdog U.S. Senate candidate Maurice Ferre is calling on Democrat Kendrick Meek to return the $5,000 his campaign received from Charles Rangel and $1,500 from accused financial scammer Alan Stanford: “Meek and the political establishment, both Republican and Democratic, have responded to an outraged electorate by scurrying to raise more money from any source possible, regardless of character,” said Ferre. “They are seriously out of touch with America’s anger at politics as usual….Kendrick Meek must…

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Maurice Ferre demands Kendrick Meek give back Charlie Rangel’s contribution

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Republicans have been beating up on Democrats who got money from Charlie Rangel, but now a Democrat is too. Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, running in the Florida Democratic primary for Senate, is demanding that Rep. Kendrick Meek give back $5,000 he got from the Ways and Means Committee chairman after the ethics committee found Rangel should have known corporations sponsored a Caribbean conference he attended. “Kendrick Meek should be more aware of the company he keeps and return the…

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Maurice Ferre demands Kendrick Meek give back Charlie Rangel’s contribution

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Republicans have been beating up on Democrats who got money from Charlie Rangel, but now a Democrat is too. Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, running in the Florida Democratic primary for Senate, is demanding that Rep. Kendrick Meek give back $5,000 he got from the Ways and Means Committee chairman after the ethics committee found Rangel should have known corporations sponsored a Caribbean conference he attended. “Kendrick Meek should be more aware of the company he keeps and return the…

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Kendrick Meek’s signature-gathering effort is exactly where I projected it to be — further behind than where campaign says

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Last week, I wrote a post “Is Kendrick Meek’s sisyphean signature-gathering effort further behind than campaign wants to admit?” in which, after a real-time sampling of the ten Supervisor of Elections’ offices which have, to date, processed more than 85% of Meek’s verified signatures, I warned that Kendrick Meek’s effort to qualify for the ballot by petition is dangerously behind where his campaign says it is. In a conference call three weeks ago with a pool of new media writers…

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Kendrick Meek’s signature-gathering effort is exactly where I projected it to be — further behind than where campaign says

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Last week, I wrote a post “Is Kendrick Meek’s sisyphean signature-gathering effort further behind than campaign wants to admit?” in which, after a real-time sampling of the ten Supervisor of Elections’ offices which have, to date, processed more than 85% of Meek’s verified signatures, I warned that Kendrick Meek’s effort to qualify for the ballot by petition is dangerously behind where his campaign says it is. In a conference call three weeks ago with a pool of new media writers…

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Interesting kernels of data from the recent polls surveying the Florida Senate race

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One of the dominant themes that can be extracted from the recent polling is that those who know Charlie Crist best don’t like him or won’t vote for him. Marco Rubio leads Crist 68-18 among Republican primary voters who have an opinion of both candidates. As the memo attached to the FMA poll states: Among those GOP voters who have an opinion (positive or negative) of BOTH Crist and Rubio, Crist trails Rubio by a 50-point margin. While these results…

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