This morning, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) kicked off his campaign to replace Charlie Crist as Florida’s governor. With the likely withdrawal of Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson as a potential candidate, Mr. McCollum looks likely to be the leading, if not unopposed, candidate for the Republican nomination.
Bill McCollum is what I would call a “supergoober.” A lifelong politician, Mr. McCollum spent 20 years in Congress advocating 12-year term limits. When left Congress, he became a lobbyist and a failed candidate for U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2004…
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Florida Governor Charlie Crist is widely expected to announce Tuesday his intent to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.
The Associated Press first reported on the impeding announcement last night. The St. Petersburg Times political blog The Buzz spoke to Republican Party of Florida chair Jim Greer, who corroborated the story:
“Charlie Crist is going to be the next U.S. senator from Florida … It’s my opinion he has come to the conclusion that he needs to fight for Floridians…”
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All indications are that Florida Governor Charlie Crist will run for U.S. Senate. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune outlines the game of musical chairs that would likely ensue:
“Instead, with Gov. Charlie Crist now an all-but-confirmed candidate for Senate, the quickly developing race is for governor.
At least six Republicans and the fastest rising star in the state Democratic Party are now either running for governor or headed in that direction if Crist announces he will seek Mel Martinez’s vacant Senate seat next year…”
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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has apparently wrapped up his investigation into the much-discussed meeting between Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and the board of trustees of Northwest Florida State College last March.
This is the meeting which was advertised in the Northwest Florida Daily News, a newspaper published 150 miles from where the meeting was held in Tallahassee. This is the meeting about which NFSC president Dr. Bob Richburg emailed then-Rep. Sansom, “It’s probably the only way we can do it in privacy but with a public notice here,” to which Mr. Sansom replied, “That would be great!! We can get a private room on the 6th floor at FSU.”
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Republican Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and Democratic U.S. Congressman Allen Boyd both announced today that they would not run for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2010.
Current candidates for the Senate seat include U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek of Miami, and state senator Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, both Democrats. Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, a Republican, is widely expected to run, but has not officially announced.
McCollum’s statement:
“Over the past several weeks since the announcement of Senator Mel Martinez…”
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Continuing our series of articles looking forward to races in 2010, we take a look at the race for Attorney General of Florida, an office currently held by Republican Bill McCollum.
The Republicans
Bill McCollum
McCollum, the Republican incumbent, is relatively popular; while there has been some chatter about McCollum making another run at the Senate in 2010, [...]
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