Articles in Category: 'Rick Scott'

By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 27, 2010 2:30 PM

With less than a week remaining until the election, prominent national conservatives -- including Sarah Palin, Ralph Reed and Newt Gingrich -- are taking center stage in Florida, trying to turn out the vote for Republican candidates.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 27, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Following Monday night’s debate, momentum in Florida’s race for governor appears to be slowly shifting to Rick Scott. Republican Scott jumped to a 2-point lead immediately prior to, and during, his red-hot CNN slugfest with Democrat Alex Sink.
 
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By: Nancy Smith | Posted: October 27, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Alex Sink might just as well have doused her campaign with kerosene and put a match to it.

 
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By: John Kennedy and David Royse The News Service of Florida | Posted: October 27, 2010 4:05 AM
Fresh from a bruising, final governor’s race debate, Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink hit the road Tuesday in a homestretch drive to push their voters to the polls while sharpening their attacks on each other.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 25, 2010 8:11 PM
 
As the close contest to be Florida’s next governor enters its final week, Democratic candidate Alex Sink and Republican candidate Rick Scott crossed lances in their last debate of a contentious election fight -- this time involving national rather than state issues, and this time showing the country a verbal bare-knuckle brawl, Florida-style.
 
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By: Michael Peltier News Service of Florida | Posted: October 25, 2010 4:05 AM
Candidates for governor combined to spend more than $5 million in their respective bids last week as they saturated the airwaves and amped up efforts to finish strongly in a race set to end in less than two weeks, the state Division of Elections reported on Friday.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 24, 2010 10:32 AM
 
With the election little more than a week away, the three leading candidates running for the U.S. Senate clashed Sunday morning in a heated debate.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 25, 2010 4:05 AM

With less than two weeks to go until the general election, Florida’s unemployment continues to grow -- and the politicians are attempting to point the blame at their opponents.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 23, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is losing her home county, if early voting patterns are any indication.
 
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By: John Kennedy and David Royse The News Service of Florida | Posted: October 23, 2010 4:05 AM
Senate President Mike Haridopolos is talking with senators about the possibility of overriding some of Gov. Charlie Crist’s 18 vetoes from this year during the coming organizational session, raising the possibility of the first veto reversals in more than a decade.
 
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By: David Royse News Service of Florida | Posted: October 22, 2010 4:05 AM
House District 57 in Hillsborough County is a decidedly swing district – and one where Democrats are hoping they can take a seat back from Republicans as longtime GOP incumbent Faye Culp leaves office.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 21, 2010 4:05 AM
 
After steering a moderate course through the gubernatorial election campaign, would Democrat Alex Sink make a hard left turn as governor?
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum PAC have endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, in the hope that he can "keep this state prosperous."

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 

After debating Democratic rival Alex Sink, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott headed Thursday to Lakeland where he attended the Florida Phosphate Committee of Continuous Existence’s annual conference. Scott’s running mate, Rep. Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, focused on the Tampa Bay region Thursday, attending events in Sarasota and Tampa ...

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Locked in a furious electoral fight to the finish, Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink have pulled dead even in the race for Florida's governorship, a new Sunshine State News Poll shows.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 20, 2010 8:30 PM
 

With two weeks to go and polls showing a tight race, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott and Democratic nominee Alex Sink attacked each other on the issues and on their records in a sometimes acrimonious TV debate Wednesday night.

 
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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.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 20, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Late Tuesday, former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, a Democrat, jumped party lines to back Republican candidate Rick Scott for governor over state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic nominee.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 19, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Florida and 19 other states cleared an early court hurdle last week in their fight against the federal health-care law. But attorney general candidate Dan Gelber isn't applauding.
 
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By: Michael Peltier News Service of Florida | Posted: October 18, 2010 4:05 AM
Created to “level the playing field” and open the elections process to less affluent candidates, Florida’s system of public campaign financing would likely go away if voters on Nov. 2 pass Amendment 1.
 
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By: Lane Wright | Posted: October 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 
After delivering what Sen. Dave Aronberg billed as one of her strongest presentations to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Friday, Alex Sink was quickly whisked away by her staff and security personnel behind a black curtain.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 14, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Super-sized glossy campaign fliers are landing in the mailboxes of school employees, courtesy of the Florida Education Association.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 

With a new poll showing the gubernatorial race neck-and-neck, Democratic candidate Alex Sink released her findings of an audit detailing the construction of the First District Court of Appeal (DCA) building on the eastern outskirts of Tallahassee -- a building that she and others have labeled the “Tallahassee Taj Mahal.”

 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM

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

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Public Service Commission Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano, a Republican, resigned her PSC post Tuesday so that she can endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 12, 2010 4:05 AM
 
On at least six occasions, state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink approved felons' applications to sell insurance in Florida.
 
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