The Republican Party of Florida releases “just the Crist parts” of its forensic audit, conveniently leaving out the years when a certain former House speaker was living it up on his party credit card, and when another former speaker was committing felonies… Nice.
Meanwhile, cue the Crist push-back.
Also at the Herald, fallout from the paper’s reporting about a contractor who allegedly got support from the State Senate Majority Leader, Alex de la Portilla, after writing a campaign check to the Senator’s brother, and meeting with the Senator and Senate President Jeff Atwater, who happens to be running for CFO. Loranne Ausley, the Democrat running against Atwater for Alex Sink’s present job, is having a very good day.
Last but not least from MIAH: Key West Demoratic Rep. Ron Saunders says it all: Florida Republicans “would endorse a child molester for governor” if he won the primary. Ouch. Saunders was reacting to the rapid conversion of Bill McCollum supporters into fans of disgraced hospital CEO Rick Scott.
And speaking of Scott, his running mate says nobody ever asks her about Medicare fraud. But does that count venues other than tea parties?
A “conservative activist” booted from a rush week event at a Palm Beach college is drawing support from the wingerverse.
By the way, ICYMI, America was taken back yesterday. Here’s a list of the folks who dunnit.
And congratulations to the Saint Pete half of the SPB/TRR blogging bureau! Saint Petersblog won Creative Loafing’s “Best of the Bay” award for Best Local Blog, and The Reid Report won the nod for Best Political Blog (South Florida). Peter’s take here. And here are a few of the nods, some of which can be awwwwfuly snarky! (Case in point: they’ve given Charlie Crist a lifetime flip-flopper achievement award…)
Best way to ruin Florida tourism; best way to make enemies of an entire region; best way to torture dolphins; best way to set an entire body of water on fire; best thing not even we can make jokes about
The BP oil disasterBest use of hated, rights-destroying, federal Nazification stimulus money
Teachers still have jobs in Florida
Last year, the abhorrent socialist federal stimulus bill saved more than 2,800 teachers’ jobs in Tampa Bay. This year, the second round of stimulus spending will bring in a reported $553 million in education money to Florida, saving approximately 9,000 school jobs. And oh, yeah, there’s some additional money coming in to help poor people who can’t afford medical care. Now you see why this stimulus is so disgusting? Teachers? Poor sick people? Who wants to help them?
Most influential journalist you don’t know about
John Hill, St. Petersburg Times
When you’re reading a Times editorial on BP, the environment, and much of Tampa and Hillsborough politics and public policy, it comes from the hand of this wordsmith. And many of Tampa’s highest officials (or those that aspire to be) have his number plugged into their cellphone.Best Florida Political Blog (South Florida)
The Reid Report
South Florida political blogger Joy-Ann Reid has been doing her thing for years. She writes regular columns for the Miami Herald and shows up on occasion dispensing punditry on MSNBC, but her bread and butter is writing about the political scene, in Florida and the nation. blog.reidreport.com
Best Florida Political Blog (Tallahassee)
Gary Fineout
Fineout is one of the top bloggers in Florida political media. The former Miami Herald and Tallahassee Democrat reporter is also extremely active on Twitter, reporting facts that he seems to get just a little bit earlier than everyone else. findout.typepad.com/the_fine_printBest Florida Political Blog (Tampa Bay)
The Buzz, St. Petersburg Times
There’s absolutely nothing alternative about giving praise to the biggest guys in the room. But we’re grading on information, not on attitude — and with The Buzz benefiting from cross-pollination with the Miami Herald, everybody who follows Florida politics knows it’s a must-read when you’re on your computer in the middle of the night. blogs.tampabay.com/buzzBest Local Political Blog
Saint Petersblog 2.0
Executive Editor Peter Schorsch sometimes act a bit unhinged (we don’t get the whole Michael Pinson vendetta). He’s had a politically scarred career, and with so many politicians advertising on his site, we’re sometimes uncertain about how it affects him editorially. But he’s also a thorn in the side of the St. Pete Times, because on more than a few occasions he’s out-scooped the Paper of Record. “Controversial” seems incomplete as a description of Peter, but we’re glad he’s around.
Get the full win-list here.
Your humble blogger was also named among this week’s “Best of the Blogs” over at Progress Florida for a piece I wrote on Jim Greer at TheGrio.
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