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Human Events: Would Charlie Crist Pick Up Where Arlen Specter Left Off?

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A must read article from Human Events editor John Gizzi begins with a provacative statement: “You guys will be wishing you had [Martinez] back after a year of Charlie in the Senate.” That’s what a prominent Florida Republican told me in March, as rumors mounted that the Sunshine State’s Gov. Charlie Crist would run for the seat of fellow Republican and retiring Sen. Mel Martinez. It is well-known that conservatives had a problem with Martinez, whose strong support of “comprehensive…

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Carl Hiaasen on Charlie Crist

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Ah, Charlie, we hardly knew ye. The lad was but a bronze blur, streaking across the bright Tallahassee firmament . . . OK, streaking isn’t exactly the right word. What Charlie did was more like scooting or possibly darting, as in darting from one job to the next — state senator, deputy secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, education commissioner, attorney general, then governor. It seems like barely 30 months ago that he took office as Florida’s…

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USA Today: Charlie Crist Brightens GOP’s Senate Outlook

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From Susan Davis, USA Today: Charlie Crist’s entry in the Florida Senate race for 2010 gives Republicans a strong player on a field that again will be tilted in favor of the Democrats. After picking up six seats in 2006 and nine last year, Democrats have no coming retirements and hold only two seats in 2010 races that election analysts currently consider competitive. Republicans hold four seats in races that figure to be close. Counting the two independents who tend…

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Charlie Crist wants to beeeee

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It isn’t Charlie Crist’s fault that the voters of Florida were stoooopid enough to choose Mel Martinez over Betty Castor. That election took place in the same era that saw decorated war hero Max Cleland accused of being unpatriotic. If the voters of Georgia were stoooopid enough to fall for that, then the voters of Florida can be excused for somehow thinking Mel Martinez, a failure at Housing and Urban Development, than Betty Castor. So it wasn’t Charlie Crist’s fault…

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The junior Senator from Florida: Rick Baker?

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ST. PETERSBURG–Mayor Rick Baker said he hasn’t ruled out a potential Senate run. “I’m not taking anything off the table,” he said when asked whether he would go after the seat being vacated by Republican Mel Martinez. Wouldn’t it be great to see Pam Iorio face off against Rick Baker?

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The Sudoku Senate race

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Not only is it light years away from November 2010, but the prospect of another grueling campaign in Florida, this time to replace Mel Martinez in the U.S. Senate, has yet to excite me. I’m obviously not alone in this feeling either as the leading candidates for both parties, Jeb Bush and Alex Sink, have decided not to run for the seat. – That leaves both sides of the aisle with candidates for whom the word senatorial does not immediately…

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