The head of the Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy blasted corporate influence on environmentalists in the wake of reports that the Sierra Club accepted $25 million from a gas drilling and fracking company.
"This is an example of the lateral influence that corporations can exert," said FARE executive director Mike Antheil.
Now that the presidential primary is over and two GOP candidates have quit the U.S. Senate contest, George LeMieux is narrowing his focus on rival Connie Mack IV.
“With Hasner and Craig Miller’s departures this week, the U.S. Senate race is now in clearer focus. Connie Mack currently leads in the polls, but there is no doubt his lead stems entirely from having a well-known name, inherited from his respected father and great-grandfather," LeMieux said Wednesday.
Struggling in the polls, Adam Hasner pulled out of the U.S. Senate race Tuesday to run in a South Florida congressional district vacated by Rep. Allen West.
Hours earlier, West announced his move to Rep. Tom Rooney's district and Rooney shifted to a newly drawn district in south-central Florida. That left an opening for Hasner to run in West's district, which closely resembles the one Hasner represented in the Florida House.
Absentee ballots were on track to hit a Florida Republican presidential primary record Tuesday -- and that could be good news for Mitt Romney.
The 630,000 absentee ballots received before the weekend will likely swell to nearly 700,000 during final counting today, said Randy Nielsen, a GOP political consultant.
After all the votes are tallied, some 2 million ballots are expected to be cast in the presidential preference primary, compared with the 1.5 million votes in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary.
Attention, Florida tea partiers: Newt Gingrich topped an online straw poll conducted by Tea Party Patriots over the weekend.
The former House speaker received 35 percent of the vote following Sunday night’s Tea Party Patriots Presidential Tele Forum, where Florida tea activists directed questions to Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. (Ron Paul was invited but could not attend.)
TPP said nearly 6,000 tea activists from Florida participated in the call, and 600 voted in the straw poll.
Time is running out on an E-Verify immigration bill at the Florida Legislature.
With just a week to clear three assigned subcommittees -- a virtual impossibility -- House Bill 1315 appears all but dead.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie, would require employers to run the names of all new hires through the free federal E-Verify system to determine legal status.
The ever-talkative Newt Gingrich is mum on the subject, but many of his Florida campaign ads are being bankrolled by a Las Vegas gaming mogul angling to build a casino in downtown Miami.
Sheldon Adelson, owner of Las Vegas Sands, contributed $5 billion to Gingrich's Winning Our Future "super-PAC" and Adelson's wife chipped in another $5 billion in the past month.
Seeking to build a destination casino in South Florida, Adelson is betting that Gingrich will continue to help push gaming across the country.
A poll showing Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in a dead heat in Florida indicates that tea party sympathizers aren't necessarily locked in for the former House speaker.
The 2,567 likely primary voters questioned by the Dixie Strategies/First Coast News Public Opinion Survey supported Gingrich with 35.46 percent while Romney had 35.08 percent.
The poll also reported that 76 percent of its respondents had a "very positive" or "somewhat positive" view of the tea party.
Newt Gingrich will attend a presidential candidate forum Saturday in Winter Park, site of a tea party rally.
The rally, one of three events by Tea Party Express today, will be held in front of Aloma Church at 1:30 p.m. The church is at 1815 State Road 436.
It is also the location for the First Awake! Presidential Candidate Forum and Q&A. So far, Gingrich is the only candidate who has committed to attend.
A tea party bus tour will begin Saturday in Florida and make six stops around the Sunshine State.
The "Rallying for Victory" tour will stage events in Jacksonville, Winter Park, West Palm Beach, The Villages, Gainesville, Panama City and Pensacola in the run-up to Tuesday's presidential primary.
Tea Party Express, which bills itself as the nation’s largest tea party political action committee, said it is conducting the tour to demonstrate "strength and determination in pursuing and promoting tea party values."
