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Not a good day for Charlie Crist: continuing coverage of Jim Greer’s resignation

Published on January 6, 2010 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

Normally, you’d need to be a Florida politics junky to care that the Chairman of the Florida GOP, Jim Greer, resigned his office yesterday. But this is an ominous sign for Charlie Crist in the Florida senate primary and another sign of right-wing power in the nationwide GOP battle between moderates and the Tea Party/Club for Growth right. This one’s a big deal. Update – 5:50 p.m. – Former House Speaker Bense said Wednesday he planned to fill in for…

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Not a good day for Charlie Crist: continuing coverage of Jim Greer’s resignation

Published on January 6, 2010 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

Normally, you’d need to be a Florida politics junky to care that the Chairman of the Florida GOP, Jim Greer, resigned his office yesterday. But this is an ominous sign for Charlie Crist in the Florida Senate primary and another sign of right-wing power in the nationwide GOP battle between moderates and the Tea Party/Club for Growth right. This one’s a big deal. Update – 5:50 p.m. – Former House Speaker Bense said Wednesday he planned to fill in for…

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Saint Petersblog makes Talking Points Memo’s ‘Top Ten Reader Tips Of The Year’

Published on November 30, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

Last Saturday, Saint Petersblog attracted 20,000 unique readers to the site. This week, Saint Petersblog was recognized by Talking Points Memo as part of its “Top Ten Reader Tips of the Year” list. …here at TPM, we wanted to give thanks for something we really couldn’t do without: the flood of reader tips — inside information, documents, or even just news stories that have flown under the radar — that help lead to so many of our biggest news breaks.…

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Tea Party registered as Florida political party

Published on November 11, 2009 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

It started off as a small movement that eventually picked up the backing of multiple conservative news outlets and became a rallying point for those opposed to President Obama’s domestic policies. Now, the “Tea Party” has been registered as an official minority party in the state of Florida, according to Politico.com. The party was registered by Orlando lawyer Frederic O’Neal, who will also serve as the party’s chairman. The new party will likely be in the mode of the Conservative…

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A month after helping to run him out of town, Times publishes op-ed from controversial doc David McKalip

Published on September 6, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

One month after helping to run controversial doctor David McKalip out of town after he emailed a racist photo of President Barack Obama, the St. Petersburg Times published an op-ed from McKalip in which the neurosurgeon continued his efforts to block Obama’s health care plan. You can listen to McKalip’s speech here). After his public shaming, MacKalip did not go quietly into the night. He broke off from a family vacation in Yellowstone to attend a TEA Party in Montana…

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Continuing coverage of doctor’s racist email depicting Barack Obama as a witch doctor

Published on July 24, 2009 in Statewide/The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

7:20 p.m. – Tomorrow’s St. Petersburg Times story on McKalip. 7:18 p.m. – McKalip says he is taking a leave of absence from a leadership role with the American Medical Association. “That e-mail depicted such an offense image, and it was completely inappropriate for me to thoughtlessly forward it out,” McKalip said. “A person in my position, who’s trying to help patients and trying to do it in organized medicine, needs to think hard about the people he’s going to…

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