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Marco Rubio slams White House, Charlie Crist over oil spill

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Marco Rubio slammed the Obama administration Wednesday, CNN reports, for its response to the Gulf oil spill. And Rubio did not miss the opportunity to criticize his opponent Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for not doing more to get the resources Florida needs to defend against the spill’s onslaught. “I think the federal government took its time responding to this early on,” Rubio said of the spill in an interview that aired on CNN’s The Situation Room. “I think that they…

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Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House

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Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to “bang heads together” to get policy pushed through. Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term. Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one…

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NY Post: Dem strategists turning to Charlie Crist in Senate race

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Top Democratic strategists are abandoning their party’s frontrunner in the Florida Senate race in favor of Independent Charlie Crist, who bolted the Republican Party over the state party’s rightward lurch toward the Tea Party. SKDKnickerbocker, a leading Democratic political strategy and communications firm, has agreed to work on Crist’s up-hill campaign as an independent for the U.S. Senate. The decision will be widely viewed as a slap at Democratic frontrunner Rep. Kendrick Meek, who is trailing badly in the polls…

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White House isn’t flirting with Charlie Crist

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Contrary to rumors and published reports, the White House and senior Democrats aren’t retracting their pledges of support for Rep. Kendrick Meek, their favorite Democrat running for Senate in Florida. Gov. Charlie Crist, now running as an independent, let it be known that Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader, had telephoned him, leading to a rush of speculation that Democrats didn’t want to alienate someone who could potentially caucus with them. That’s true, to a point, but Reid’s aides insist…

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White House isn’t flirting with Charlie Crist

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Contrary to rumors and published reports, the White House and senior Democrats aren’t retracting their pledges of support for Rep. Kendrick Meek, their favorite Democrat running for Senate in Florida. Gov. Charlie Crist, now running as an independent, let it be known that Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader, had telephoned him, leading to a rush of speculation that Democrats didn’t want to alienate someone who could potentially caucus with them. That’s true, to a point, but Reid’s aides insist…

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Charlie Crist did not ask White House for support as a Democrat

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From HuffPo: The White House is chopping down a rumor that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist allegedly called up Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel last week to see if the administration would support him if he chose to run for the Senate as a Democrat. “It’s not true,” a spokesperson for the Chief of Staff’s office said. The rumor about a Crist overture to Emanuel had been spreading within Florida’s political circles, before managing, at some point, to make its way…

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Rahm Emanuel to Charlie Crist: Drop Dead!

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Charlie Crist, soon to be independent Senate candidate from Florida, tried to reach White House chief of staff RahmĀ Emanuel through intermediaries, but the Whie House refused to take the call, according to Marc Ambinder, who is also reporting theĀ Democrats are planning a “big talent/money blitz forĀ Kendrick Meek.”

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