Florida follies: Rick Scott’s default fail, A.G. fires attorneys who went after bad banks, second coming of Crist?
Hey Rick Scott: I'll bet Lord Voldemort knows what "government shutdown" means...
Rick Scott, the deeply unpopular Florida governor, takes a “what, me worry?” approach to the debt ceiling crisis in Washington … Read more
Florida remainders: Scott losing cops, Dems gaming 2014, West intern fired for gay-friendly tweet **UPDATED**
If you’re working for Rep. Allen West, be careful what you retweet. Read more
A tale of two Florida governors: Gollum versus Charlie Sunshine
Charlie Crist ends his tenure as Florida’s governor on an up note, especially with independents, and a future as a Democrat should he want it. His successor, Gollum, on the other hand, begins his tenure as the most unpopular governor in America. Filthy hobbitses … Read more
Charlie Crist re-hugs the president
Charlie Crist, Obama-hugging again
Guess who supports President Obama’s tax compromise? Read more
Floribama update: news coverage that makes you wanna holler
Make it stop! Make ... it ... STOP!!!
If this is what’s going to pass for coverage of a governor who narrowly escaped a date with the FBI, and who has pending business with the feds over brand new Medicare fraud, I really am gonna have to move… right after a scrub my freaking eyeballs… ugh. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. But at least I’ve figured out why newspapers are dying.
BTW, is Gollum chickening out on Florizonapartheid? Maybe the realization that he might have to deport his LG, along with the new junior Senator kicked into that freaky bald dome… Read more
From Politico: the story behind the Clinton-Meek intervention
Politico’s Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Allen dig deeper into the delicate operation that they say began as early as this spring, in which the White House, fresh from trying to intervene to head off challenges to Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Michael Bennett in Colorado, tried to do the same in Florida. Read more
(Audio) The Crist-Meek voicemail
I’m still not sure why Kendrick Meek released this voicemail message. Can’t for the life of me figure out how that advances his cause. Besides that, the actual audio of the call detonates the Meekworld characterization of Charlie the Stalker — Crist sounds quite reasonable on the call, not at all desperate, and not for nothing, but he appears to be returning Meek’s call … Read more
The Florida Senate race goes from bizarre to ridiculous
Is Charlie Crist going all Ginny Thomas on Kendrick Meek?
So… Kendrick Meek has gone from saying he never ever had a conversation with anybody, especially former President Clinton, to admitting that he and Clinton kinda-sorta talked about the metaphysical concept of someone much like him theoretically dropping out of a race on the ethereal plane of unreality, to playing voicemails of Charlie Crist asking to meet with him about dropping out of the Senate race? Can we just call off the election now and all go home?
Related: Oh for Crist’s sake … Adviser says Charlie would definitely caucus with Dems…
Back to the ridiculousness… Read more
Timeline: the Clinton-Meek-Crist ‘Dropout’ caper **UPDATE**
Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla. and former President Bill Clinton
The Florida Senate race finally got interesting for reasons other than the media’s fetish for Marco Rubio Thursday night, though it also got mighty convoluted. So here’s what we know so far…
UPDATE: Meek will be on pretty much every morning show on television tomorrow (GMA, CNN, etc etc…)
5:50 p.m. – Politico publishes a story by Ben Smith in which he states that Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Matt McKenna, confirmed on the record that Clinton aider Doug Band had served as a go-between between the former president and the Congressman to discuss his dropping out of the race to prevent Marco Rubio from winning. The story quoted three sources: two unnamed “Democratic sources” — and McKenna. It was very specific, and said Meek actually agreed to the deal twice, but backed out.
6:49 – Charlie Crist campaign issues a statement confirming the story as “accurate.” They don’t say how they know this… Read more
UPDATE: Meek campaign confirms Clinton asked Meek to drop out, Meek to face media at 9:30
H/T to Peter Schorsch:
A spokesman for Democratic Congressman Kendrick Meek has confirmed that President Bill Clinton raised the possibility of Meek getting out of Florida’s race for U.S. Senate.
Dave Hoffman said “that was discussed, yeah,” but Hoffman denied that Meek had ever agreed to drop out. Read more
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