When Florida legislators passed new election laws last year, the stated aim of the new legislation was primarily curtailing voter fraud. To that end, lawmakers limited the amount of time third party…
Tag: Bill Nelson
BP Sticks Around (Sort of)
The man at BP’s claim’s facility Tuesday night couldn’t speculate about the decision to keep the doors open. He could only provide a freshly printed flyer with the new hours of operation….
Beast Corps: Notes on Meek’s Forum on Offshore drilling
From Beast Corps correspondent Logan Harrison: Timeline: • Arrived at 7:03 • Talked about being on the road all day, took bathroom break…. • Left Panama City this morning • Took a…
Sen. Nelson is coming
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. at Plaza de Luna at the end of Palafox. He is holding a series of press conferences along Northwest…
No Obama wish list here
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes that Broward County has submitted its wish list for the Obama Economic Stimulus package to its Congressional delegation. How came we heard nothing from our Escambia and…
Nelson goes after Rudy
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (Dem) isn’t a big Rudy Guiliani fan. The St. Pete Times reports Nelson said, “He doesn’t look like a president. He doesn’t talk like a president, and he…
Crist approval rating
From Strategic Vision poll 3/9-11: Gov. Charlie Crist’s approval 61%/ disapproval 23% Bill Nelson: 52%/36% Mel Martinez: 44%/35% …..ties to Bush Administration are hurting him
Telephone polling: Bush brothers, Crist, WalMart
Participated in my first statewide telephone. Questions asked involved rating: Gov. Jeb Bush’s 8 years Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez The Florida Legislature President Bush What I expect of Gov-elect Charlie Crist…
FEMA tells ECUA find the $115M elsewhere
Just as we predicted months ago – and just as Sen. Bill Nelson and Congressman Jeff Miller told them – FEMA rejected another grant to ECUA to help pay for the remaining…
Bill Nelson is luckiest man alive
GOP candidate for U.S. senate Katherine Harris declared yesterday( ) that she want barriers to oil drilling off U.S. coastlines lowered and attacked Nelson for blocking a bill that would have opened…
Harris says Nelson not Christian enough
Republican candidate for U.S. senate Katherine Harris badly wants to make religion an issue in her campaign against heavily-favored incumbent Bill Nelson. In an interview published by a Christian news service, Harris…