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Mitch McConnell Is Worried That Rick Scott Could Cost Republicans The 2024 Election
Mitch McConnell is trying to defuse Rick Scott’s cut Social Security timebomb because he thinks it will cost the GOP the 2024 election.
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Republicans In Disarray As Mitch McConnell Knifes Rick Scott
The bad blood between Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott erupted after McConnell said that Scott might not be able to win reelection in Florida due to his desire to kill Social Security.
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Biden Torches Rick Scott In Florida By Using His Own Words Against Him
At an event in Florida, President Biden used Sen. Rick Scott’s own words against him on Social Security and Medicare.
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Rick Scott Hits A New Level Of Pathetic With Support For Herschel Walker
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried to support Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, but he came off sounding desperate and pathetic.
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Even A Death Threat Can’t Make Rick Scott Condemn Trump
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was asked if he was okay with Trump making death threats and racist attacks against Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao and he refused to condemn Trump.
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Senate Republican Campaigns Are Broke Because Rick Scott Spent All Of Their Money
Senate Republican candidates are getting destroyed in ads because Sen. Rick Scott ran through all of the money national Republicans raised for Senate campaigns.
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Rick Scott Compares Trump Raid To Nazis As GOP Finds New Way To Lose Votes
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) compared the FBI raid of Trump’s private club to the Nazis, as Republicans are finding new ways to offend voters.
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Rick Scott Gets Brutally Busted As He Falsely Claims Democrats Are Cutting Medicare
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried to claim that Democrats are cutting with their reconciliation bill but was called out on Face The Nation.
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Rick Scott Gave A Speech At CPAC That Was So Off The Rails That The Audience Stopped Clapping
CPAC has become the far right’s gathering place, but Sen. Rick Scott was so out there that he lost the audience.
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Rick Scott Tells Seniors To Get To Work As GOP Eyes Gutting Social Security
While claiming that he wanted Americans to get to work despite the lowest unemployment rate in a half a century, Rick Scott said every able-bodied person should get a job.
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Even Fox Doesn’t Buy It, When Rick Scott Claims His Plan Doesn’t Raise Taxes On A Majority Of Americans
Sen. Rick Scott dumbfounded Fox News Sunday when he claimed that his plan to raise taxes on a majority of Americans doesn’t do that.
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Disgraceful Senate GOP Blocks Biden Ukraine Relief Nominees After Zelensky Pleads For Help
Hours after listening to President Zelensky address them, Senate Republicans blocked Biden’s nominees to lead the Ukraine support effort.
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Rick Scott Leads Senate Republicans To Doom With Plan To Raise Taxes On 40% Of Americans
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is running the Senate Republican effort in 2022, and the tax plan that he wants Republicans to run on would raise taxes on 40% of Americans.
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GOP Senator Rick Scott is Pleading With Trump to Stop Threatening GOP Incumbents With Primary Opponents
Donald Trump has barely been out of office, but he is desperate to maintain his control of the Republican party. The GOP members of the House of Representatives seem eager to give it to him. They recently stripped Liz Cheney of her leadership position for coming out against Trump. Republican members of the senate, though,…
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Ron DeSantis Says Rick Scott’s Call to Return Stimulus Money “Doesn’t Make Any Sense”
Within weeks of being in office, Joe Biden passed a massive stimulus package. The legislation will put money in the pockets of millions of Americans and also aid countless small businesses. The measure is favored by over 2/3’s of Americans and more than half of the country’s Republicans. GOP lawmakers are now in the unenviable…
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While Many GOP Senators Have Been Moved by Impeachment Trial, Rick Scott Calls it a “Complete Waste of Time”
Yesterday’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened with a stirring speech by Congressman Jamie Raskin. And the hearings have only become more emotional since. While watching footage of the January 6th insurrection today, Republican Senator James Lankford became visibly upset. A number of GOP lawmakers have commented on how effective the Democratic case has been….
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Andrew Cuomo Unloads On Mitch McConnell And Rick Scott
Gov. Andrew Cuomo unloaded on Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott for refusing aid to states hardest hit by the virus.
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GOP’s Florida Debacle Raises Question: Will Coronavirus Change the Way Americans Think About Unemployment?
Americans enduring unemployment have typically, in the culture of the U.S. political economy, not been responded to with sympathy but rather with disdain, judgment, and blame. And this has been true, we see, even when the nation has faced conditions of great economic austerity, begging the question, how can we blame people for not working…
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Rick Scott Introduces Amendment To Stop Future Impeachment Of Trump Accomplices
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)introduced a constitutional amendment that would raise the threshold for the House to impeach an elected official to 60%.
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Rick Scott Praises Trump’s Innocence After Russia Got Him His Senate Seat
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) won his Senate seat after Russian hackers attacked 4 Florida counties in 2018. Now, he is praising Trump’s innocence in impeachment.
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Opinion: The GOP is Silent on Russian Interference and Trump’s Dangerous Behavior Because They’re in on it
Media pundits often wonder why Republicans have turned a blind eye to and refused to call out the myriad and fairly well-documented behaviors of both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s Russian government, which gravely undermine the U.S.’s national security, interfere in our election processes, and generally influence the White House to pursue policy that serves…
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Democrats Can’t Stop Winning As Judge Gives Florida Voters More Time To Correct Ballots
Florida’s Republican Governor, Rick Scott, along with the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has filed an appeal of a federal judge’s decision to give voters in Florida until Saturday to correct issues with their mail-in and provisional ballots. A federal judge on Thursday ruled that mail-in and provisional ballots that had been rejected because of signature…
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Schumer Tells Trump to Stop ‘Bullying, Harassing & Lying’ About Recounts
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has had enough of Donald Trump. On Tuesday he demanded that the president “stop bullying, harassing and lying” about the Florida recounts. “Speaking in defense of Florida Sen. Nelson, who is fighting for his Senate seat, Minority Leader Schumer called for President Trump to “stop bullying, harassing and lying” about…
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Trump Continues Bogus Florida Fraud Claims, Says Recounts Should Stop
President Donald Trump declared that “an honest vote count is no longer possible†in the controversial Florida midterm elections for the state’s governor and U.S. Senate positions. The president is now claiming (with no evidence) that many of the ballots are “missing or forged.†Trump tweeted: “The Florida Election should be called in favor of…
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Republicans Are Carrying Out An Assault On Democracy In Florida
Yesterday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent out a series of Tweets implying a vast conspiracy was taking place due to his belief that “democratic lawyers are trying to change the results” of this past Tuesday’s election. Governor Rick Scott continues to hold a slim lead over his opponent, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), however, that margin…
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Trump Charges Corruption As Scott Files Florida Lawsuit
President Donald Trump has interjected himself into another election controversy. On Thursday evening he said that law enforcement was examining a “big corruption scandal” regarding “Election Fraud” in Florida. There are two Florida counties that have found themselves in the middle of an intense fight over vote counts in the state’s too-close-to-call U.S. Senate race. Trump…
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Fears of Florida Defeats Bring Desperation to the White House
Recent polls show that Democrat Andrew Gillum has maintained a lead over Trump-endorsed rival Ron DeSantis in the race to become Florida’s next governor. As a result, President Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are getting very, very worried. According to POLITICO, President Trump plans to barnstorm Florida over the next ten…
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Florida Democrats Ask For Voter Registration Extension Due to Hurricane
With Hurricane Michael on a path to devastate 300 miles of northwest Florida coastline tomorrow afternoon, Florida Democrats want the voter registration deadline extended. Michael is bringing to Florida’s northern Gulf Coast its most serious hurricane threat in decades, and the National Hurricane Center has said the devastation caused by storm surges may be greater…
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Bill Nelson Pulls Ahead of Rick Scott In Critical Florida Senate Race
According to a highly-respected opinion poll released on Tuesday Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has taken a significant lead over his formidable GOP opponent, Governor Rick Scott. The Quinnipiac University Poll is widely followed so the fact that its new poll shows Nelson with a seven point lead over Scott has captured national attention. It…
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Dem Poll Has Gillum Leading DeSantis By 5 in Florida
Bernie Sanders-supported progressive Democrat Andrew Gillum, the thirty-something mayor of Tallahassee, is leading Trump-supported right-wing Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis (Fla.) by 5 points in the race for the Florida governor’s mansion, according to a new poll. Admittedly, the poll may be biased since it was commissioned by Democrats, but it is the first publicly released…
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Nelson Won’t Back Down on Russian Hacking Claims in Florida
Russian hacking of U.S. elections is becoming a big issue in the U.S. Senate race in Florida between incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and Republican Governor Rick Scott. One week ago we reported Nelson’s claims that “Russian operatives have penetrated Florida’s election systems ahead of the 2018 elections. They have already penetrated certain counties in…
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Rick Scott Is Already Accused of Violating Federal Fundraising Rule
A newly filed complaint has been lodged against Florida Governor Rick Scott’s Political Action Committee (PAC) for violating federal campaign fundraising laws. The ‘New Republican PAC’ started by Scott had a stated purpose of “rebranding the Republican Party.” But recently it abruptly made a change from GOP rebranding to being used as a tool to…
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Trump Crony Rick Scott Running for U.S. Senate in Florida
If you care about the environment, education, gun control or any progressive values, Rick Scott has been a disaster as governor of Florida. Â And now this right-wing former CEO accused of Medicare fraud wants to go to Washington in the U.S. Senate so he can promote even more of Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda. #Florida Gov…
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Florida Nursing Home Residents Died Because Rick Scott Ignored Their Calls
The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Hollywood nursing home called Florida Governor Rick Scott’s cell three times asking for help 36 hours before the first tragic death.
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District Judge Assails Florida GOP’s “Election-Rigging†War on Voting
“’I know it (obscenity) when I see it.’ Likewise, this Court knows disenfranchisement when it sees it and it is obscene.â€
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Victory For Democracy: Judge Extends Florida’s Voter Registration Deadline By A Week
The new deadline to register to vote in the Sunshine state is Oct. 18.
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Federal Court Ignores Trump-Supporting Governor, Extends Voter Registration In Florida
The GOP knows that when fewer people turn out to the polls, they have a better chance of being successful.
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Governor Scott Orders 1.5 Million Floridians to Flee the Result of Climate Change
“Scientists are confident that as we continue to heat up the oceans, we’re going to see more of these high-end perfect storms.â€
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Little Acknowledgment That LGBT People Were Targeted in Orlando Gun Massacre
“This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends, our fellow Americans, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
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Morning Joe Tries To Get Its Credibility Back By Kicking Rick Scott Off The Show
MSNBC’s Morning Joe has given Donald Trump and unlimited and virtually uncontested platform to spew his gibberish and hate, but after coming under increased scrutiny, the show tossed Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott off of the air after he refused to answer a question about whether he believes Islam hates America.
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Louie Gohmert: It’s Obama’s Fault We’re all Idiots
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
Florida Descends Into Budget Chaos As Republicans Squabble Over Medicaid Expansion
Although the Florida Republican Party has one-party control of the state government, they are simply unable and unwilling to govern.
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Editorial Cartoon: The Sopranos
Rick Scott, who refuses to expand Medicaid and thereby denies more than 800,000 a chance for medical insurance, went on Fox News. He proclaimed the Obama Administration was a bully like the Sopranos, and he is going to sue the Federal Government!
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Florida Governor Rick Scott Flip-Flops On Medicaid Expansion Again, Now Opposes It
Governor Scott has reversed his position and he now opposes Medicaid expansion after briefly supporting it. Ironically, he blames Obama.
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Gov. Rick Scott Banned Talk of “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”
Rick Scott’s administration banned use of terms like global warming and climate change, but denial won’t turn sea level rise into a nuisance
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Florida Governor Rick Scott Abandons Efforts To Require Drug Tests For Welfare Recipients
Passing up a deadline to appeal to the Supreme Court, Florida Governor Rick Scott ended efforts to require drug testing welfare recipients.
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The Republican Cult of the Penis Has Replaced Christianity
The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs
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The Significant Role That Stupidity Played in Republicans Winning Control of Congress
The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.
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Rachel Maddow Reveals How Minimum Wage And Pot Ballot Measures May Push Dems To Victory
During Monday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed popular ballot measures in a number of red or swing states that could help swing the tide in many close gubernatorial or Senate races.
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Charlie Crist Leads Rick Scott In a Florida Governor’s Race Where Every Vote Will Matter
The Florida governor’s election is close with Democrat Charlie Crist at 42% among likely voters, and incumbent Republican Rick Scott 41% according to a Quinnipiac University Poll
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How Chris Christie And Other Republicans Would Control The Voting Mechanisms
Unless you are a rich and a member of the GOP, Republicans don’t want you to vote.
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Chris Christie Advocates For Election Rigging By Republicans Controlling The “Voting Mechanism”
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
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Republicans Governors Facing Extinction As Democratic Wave Looms
While the mainstream media is obsessed with the contest for control of the Senate, Democrats are poised to wipe out the Republican governor class of 2010. Rick Snyder, Sam Brownback, Rick Scott, Tom Corbett, Scott Walker and others are facing a growing Democratic wave.
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Double Whammy: Democrats Are In a Position To Beat Both Rick Scott and Rick Snyder
Two new polls reveal that Democrats are in a position to beat both Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, and Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan.
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Democrat Charlie Crist Surges and Opens Up a 6 Point in Florida Governor’s Race
More good news for Democrats out of Florida where former Gov. Charlie Crist has jumped out to six point lead over Republican Gov. Rick Scott 46%-40%.
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Rick Scott Breaks The Law By Using On Duty Cops As Props At Campaign Event
Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) broke the law this week when he used on duty officers as political props at an event for his re-election campaign.
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Republicans Are Laying Our Throats Bare for Their Corporate Masters
This is the GOP of the 21st century – secretive and extreme – a party that pretends to populism but which despises the populace and its rights
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Crazy Tea Party Congressman Suggests Only Property Owners Should Be Allowed To Vote
The watchdog group Right Wing Watch recently uncovered video footage of Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) telling voters in his district that property owners should be the only ones allowed to vote.
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Democrats On Verge Of Flipping Florida’s 13th District As Alex Sink Up 7 Points
In a poll released on Thursday by the Tampa Bay Times, Democrat Alex Sink holds a 7-point lead over Republican David Jolly in Florida’s 13th District Special Election.
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Democrat Charlie Crist Continues To Hold Commanding Lead Over Rick Scott In Florida
In a poll released on Wednesday by the University of Florida, Democrat and former Florida Governor Charlie Crist holds a 7-point lead over current Republican Governor Rick Scott. This is pretty much in line with other recent polls showing Crist with a comfortable lead over Scott as we start inching towards Election Day. The…
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Voters Want Rick Scott Gone as Democrat Charlie Crist Opens an 8 Point Lead In Florida
In the most recent Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday, Florida voters continued to voice their displeasure for current Republican Governor Rick Scott as Democrat Charlie Crist now leads 46%-38%.
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Coke Snorting GOP Congressman Trey Radel Will Finally Resign On Monday
Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) has stated that he will resign from Congress effective 6:30 PM ET on Monday. The embattled Republican Congressman has been an embarrassment to the GOP ever since he got arrested buying cocaine from an undercover agent in Washington, D.C. in November of last year.
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Obamacare Delivers Knockout Blow To GOP As Majority Of States Have Expanded Medicaid
The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers them, the less likely the GOP is going to be able to do anything about the law and will have to accept it.
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GOP Whines About Charlie Crist Speaking to a Gay Paper and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
On New Year’s Eve, Watermark, a noted Florida-based LGBT publication, published an interview that the paper’s founder, Tom Dyer, had with former Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
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Judge Sticks It to Rick Scott By Ruling Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Unconstitutional
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven struck down a 2011 Florida law requiring welfare applicants to undergo drug tests.
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Rick Perry Under Investigation for Coercion of a Public Servant
It is no surprise that Rick Perry now finds himself being investigated for abuse of office charges and coercion revolving around the Texas Public Integrity Unit.
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Rick Scott Is Back With a New Scheme To Purge the Vote In Florida
In Florida, it’s deja vu all over again. Rick Scott is back in the business of purging the vote. The last time Scott tried this, 182,000 people were put on an initial list based on DMV records.
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Republicans Go On a Nationwide Rampage Of Eliminating Laws That Protect Americans
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government’s ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like Michigan and Florida.
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Rick Scott Thinks That He Can Buy Another Term As Florida Governor
Gov. Rick Scott thinks that Florida voters will be fooled by $80 million in television advertising into electing him for a second term as the state’s governor.
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Charlie Crist Leads Rick Scott By 12 Points in Latest Florida Poll
The latest PPP poll of the potential Florida governor’s race finds Gov. Rick Scott trailing former Gov. Charlie Crist by twelve points, 52%-40%.
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GOP Florida Lt Gov Jennifer Carroll Resigns Amid Racketeering Probe
Florida Republican Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned abruptly Tuesday amid a gambling scandal and racketeering probe into Allied Veterans, a firm for which she once did public relations work.
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When Republicans Govern, Government is the Problem
North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory is a classic example of why when Republicans govern, government is the problem.
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When Democrats don’t show up, Republicans like Rick Scott get to hijack elections. VOTE.
In Florida, in 2008 8.4 million people voted; in 2010 only 5.3 million did. Margin of victory for Rick Scott? 1.2%.
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Will Florida Early Voting Be Extended after Packages Detonated at Polling Place?
Two suspicious packages caused authorities to shut down an early voting location in Winter Park, Florida for several hours today.
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Republicans Secretly Continue To Purge Voters In Florida
In Florida, while agreeing to a settlement with voter advocacy groups that had sued over the voter purge, behind the curtain Florida’s Republicans continues with the purge.
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Spiritual Hurricanes and an Aura of Unreality Surround GOP Convention
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
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Federal Court Strikes Down Another Rick Scott Voter Suppression Law
A Federal court partially struck down a Republican law that reduced the number of early voting days from 12 to eight.
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The Unlikeables: GOP Convention to Feature America’s Most Disliked Politicians
The 2012 GOP convention will be headlined by the least popular nominee in 28 years, but the RNC is also filling their speaking slots with many more unpopular Republicans.
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Republican Governors Declare Independence from Human Compassion
Unsatisfied with their callous performances as governors, some of the GOP’s cruelest politicians have ratcheted up their psychopath game to the level of endangering the lives of their taxpayers.
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Americans Get a Bitter Taste of Who Mitt Romney Really Is
Americans are getting a clearer picture of Willard Romney and besides being a wealthy, out of touch elitist and pathological liar, the man is undoubtedly suffering from a severe case of egocentrism.
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Republicans Are Fast and Furious about Suppressing the Vote in Florida
The partisan decision to charge Eric Holder with contempt of Congress has nothing to do with a love for the rule of law.
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Rick Scott Sues Homeland Security In Order to Cover Up His Constitutional Crimes
Rick Scott is suing the Department of Homeland Security in the name of accessing its database, but the real point is to distract from his planned purge’s violation of the constitution.
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87% Of Rick Scott’s Florida Voter Purge Targets Are People of Color
More evidence of the real motivation behind Rick Scott’s Florida voter purge is that 87% of the people he has targeted are African-Americans and Hispanics.
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Rick Scott’s Voter Purge Powers Obama to the Lead in Florida
Holy backfire, Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s attempt to purge the voting roles in Florida is not only wildly unpopular. It is also helping to solidify Obama’s lead in the state.
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Rick Scott Dares the DOJ To Stop His Illegal Florida Voter Purge
Rick Scott is the personification of a child governor, and he will stop at nothing to rig the vote to help the Republican Party defeat Obama.
Bad Data From Rick Scott Leads 2 Florida Counties To Suspend Voter Purge
Palm Beach and Hillsborough Counties have suspended the voter purge in those counties because the information they received from Rick Scott’s officials was unreliable.
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Every Day Across Our Nation GOP Healthcare Hunger Games are Killing People
Meet some of the real life victims of health care politics in the ‘conservative republic’ of America, where only the super rich can afford to get sick.
