Archive for the ‘Marco Rubio’ Category
A Rasmussen poll released yesterday shows Florida Governor Charlie Crist and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio tied in the race for the Republican nomination in next year’s U.S. Senate race.
Mr. Rubio has gained rapidly in polls as he’s positioned himself to the right of Governor Crist. We reported last month that a Research 200/DailyKos poll put Mr. Rubio within ten points. The Rasmussen poll, which surveyed 431 likely Republican primary voters, found that 43%…
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Dramatic news in the Republican primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate race: A Research 2000/DailyKos poll (600 LV, MoE ±4%) released today shows that former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has closed to within ten points of Governor Charlie Crist.
Today’s poll represents a 43-point swing for Mr. Rubio over the past ten months in Research 2000 polling. Of the Republicans surveyed, 47 preferred Governor Crist, 37 percent preferred Mr. Rubio, and the remaining 16 percent were undecided…
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The Escambia County Republican Party has made waves in state media the last few days. Their chair, Susan Moore, invited Governor Charlie Crist to speak at their annual Lincoln Day dinner. Several members of the local party who are supporters of Marco Rubio, Governor Crist’s opponent in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, were unhappy and planned to skip the event. In an effort to “unify the local party, Ms. Moore sent them an email essentially apologising for having Governor Crist as a speaker (saying “we were sort of handed Goveror Crist”) and promising the Rubio supporters…
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A few items we wanted to highlight today:
Rick Baker presentation. The pro-charter group Believe in a Better Pensacola is touting St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker as evidence of what a strong mayor can do. Check out Mr. Baker’s October 22 lecture at IHMC entitled “Building Seamless Cities.”
Property Appraiser refunds portion of budget. Kudos to Escambia County Property Appraiser…
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A few items I wanted to highlight today:
Sheriff to send letters for prostitution offences. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office plans to start sending a letter to owners of vehicles used in prostitution offences. The letter preaches about sexually transmitted diseases and threatens (apparently without much legal foundation) to seize vehicles involved in prostitution offences, which are misdemeanors. These letters are a really bad, really stupid idea.
County Commissioners blew $6,220 on resort trip…
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The latest poll of Florida voters by Quinnipac University confirms again what everyone already knows — Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist is a runaway favourite whether he runs for reelection as governor or opts to run for U.S. Senate. Any prospective Republican candidate for either office is basically in limbo until Governor Crist makes up his mind. Quinnipac’s Peter A. Brown:
“Governor Crist has effectively frozen both the Governor’s race and the Senate race. All Republicans are standing back and waiting to see which office he will seek before deciding about their candidacies since no one in their right mind will want to take him on.”
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As you all know, Florida’s got an open U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in 2010. At the moment, the only officially declared candidates are Democrats Kendrick Meek and Dan Gelber, but Republican Marco Rubio is widely expected to jump in. What’s Mr. Rubio waiting for?
The same thing any other potential Republican candidate is — Charlie Crist.
It’s no secret that the popular Florida governor has been encouraged to run. After Jeb Bush’s decision not to run, Governor Crist is rightly seen as the GOP’s best hope at holding the Senate seat…
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Well, that was fast.
Just hours after former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced he would not seek Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2010, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting that former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has committed to running:
“In an interview, Rubio, Florida’s first Cuban-American House speaker from 2006-2008, said he’d consider a run ‘about as seriously as you can consider anything.’ He’ll have a formal announcement in a few weeks, he said…”
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Continuing our series of articles looking forward to races in 2010, we take a look at the race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Mel Martinez.
The Republicans
Mel Martinez
Republican incumbent Mel Martinez is not incredibly popular, with only a 42% approval rating among Floridians, according to a recent Quinnipac poll. In fact, Martinez [...]
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