Articles in Category: 'Marco Rubio'

Meek Responds to calls to quit
POSTED: October 18, 2010
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 20, 2010 8:30 PM
 
With two weeks to go until the general election and early voting already started, Gov. Charlie Crist and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek went on the attack against Republican front-runner Marco Rubio -- and each other -- in a widely televised debate Tuesday night at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 20, 2010 4:05 AM
 
With buzz growing that he intends to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota headed to the Sunshine State Tuesday to back GOP candidates in November’s elections.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 
With less than three weeks to go until the election to replace him in the U.S. Senate, Republican George LeMieux continued to weigh in on the issues as speculation continued to grow that he intends to launch a campaign to return to Washington in 2012 by challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
 
Full Story
By: Lane Wright | Posted: October 18, 2010 4:00 PM
 

Kendrick Meek is trailing in the polls, and has been since the primaries. Though he's got the support of the White House, former President Bill Clinton, and a host of other Democratic powerhouses in the state, he hasn't been able to move the needle and make progress against Charlie Crist, let alone Marco Rubio, in the race for a U.S. Senate seat.

 
Full Story
By: Elizabeth Letchworth | Posted: October 18, 2010 4:05 AM
 

"Extreme" seems to be the buzz word for incumbent members of Congress as they campaign against conservative or tea party-backed opponents in the upcoming November elections. We heard this “extreme” reference eight times during the recent U.S. Senate debate between Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio and Kendrick  Meek.

 
Full Story
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 15, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Swapping positions, Democrat Alex Sink has taken a lead over Republican Rick Scott in Florida's tightly contested gubernatorial race, according to a new Sunshine State News Poll.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 15, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Ahead by double digits in the polls, former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race, is about to get some help from a prominent Washington conservative -- Gary Bauer, best known for his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 and for leading the Family Research Council during the 1990s.
 
Full Story
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Republican Marco Rubio is sailing toward the U.S. Senate, as Democrat Kendrick Meek and independent Charlie Crist are dead in the water, a new Sunshine State News Poll reports.
 
Full Story
By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM

In the upcoming midterm elections, Republicans in Florida are playing with house money.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Gov. Charlie Crist left the Republican Party in April to run partyless for the U.S. Senate, but on Tuesday he got the endorsement of a big-name Republican -- a Republican star, literally -- when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California gave him a nod.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 11, 2010 1:50 PM
 

With President Barack Obama in Florida on Monday to help Democratic candidates in the Sunshine State, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate election, went all out to link himself to the White House.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 9, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Websites and organizations of every description are looking to draft former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, who now hosts a morning news show on MSNBC, into what probably will be a crowded field gunning for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 9, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Stuck in third place in the polls and confronting whispers he will pull out of the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Kendrick Meek increased the pace of his campaign Friday, a clear effort to dampen talk that he will pull the plug on his campaign.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 6, 2010 9:30 PM
 

Pundits predicted a verbal brawl, and at times, that's what the three leading candidates in the U.S. Senate race delivered. In the first get-down-to-business October debate Wednesday night. No Party Affiliate Gov. Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek went after Republican Marco Rubio, aiming to dislodge him as the race's runaway leader.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 8, 2010 4:05 AM
The Sierra Club, with more than 30,000 members in the Sunshine State, endorsed both Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation, and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate -- an endorsement Meek promptly refused.
 
Full Story
By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: October 8, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Florida Republican lawmakers and major contributors who fiercely opposed Rick Scott during the party’s August primary for governor wasted little time sliding over to support the nominee.

 
Full Story
By: Keith Laing The News Service of Florida | Posted: October 7, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio outdid himself in the fund-raising quarter that ended Sept. 30, raising $5 million in the three-month period to break the record he set last quarter for highest quarterly fund-raising haul in Florida history.

 
Full Story
By: David Royse News Service of Florida | Posted: October 6, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Gov. Charlie Crist says in a new television ad that he’s against raising the retirement age as an option for keeping Social Security solvent, and criticizes Republican U.S. Senate rival Marco Rubio for proposing to raise the retirement age and reduce benefits.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 6, 2010 4:05 AM
 

With less than a month to go until the general election, the dynamics are changing in the election for the U.S. Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the race, is turning his fire away from NPA-candidate Charlie Crist, and onto Republican candidate Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race.

 
Full Story
By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 4, 2010 4:05 AM
 
State Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, the Republican nominee for Florida’s 25th Congressional District, is counting on his conservative message and ideology to carry him to victory in November.
 
Full Story
By: Keith Laing The News Service of Florida | Posted: October 2, 2010 4:05 AM
The people who elected the self-proclaimed “people’s governor” appeared this week to tell Gov. Charlie Crist that he shouldn’t quit his day job.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 2, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, feeling frisky in Florida's dynamic political landscape, campaigned with Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott and U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio Friday.

 
Full Story
By: Lane Wright | Posted: October 1, 2010 6:15 PM
 
Gov. Charlie Crist was invited to be the Grand Marshall at Everglades High School's homecoming. And while he was in Miramar Friday in the role of governor, he took the opportunity to remind teachers to support him in his bid for U.S. senator.
 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 30, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Gov. Charlie Crist, running for the U.S. Senate without party affiliation, continues to be hammered from both sides by Republican Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race, and Democratic candidate U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.

 
Full Story
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 29, 2010 4:05 AM
 

About 40 Floridians rallied at the old Capitol Tuesday to demand that Gov. Charlie Crist expand the state’s unemployment compensation program by executive order.

 
Full Story
By: Lane Wright | Posted: September 25, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Vice President Joe Biden headlined a Democratic rally in South Florida today to help narrow the enthusiasm gap and elect Democrats like Kendrick Meek.
 
Full Story