Crist leads way in race for U.S. Senate seat | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

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TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist leads in Florida's three-way U.S. Senate race over multiple combinations of opponents in a poll out today.

Titusville church helps I-95 bus fire victims | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

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Dozens of Virginia-bound youth whose belongings were destroyed overnight in a charter bus fire on Interstate 95, will get new shoes after word of their plight reached Titusville Pastor Glenn Dames.

Rubio Misfires on Crist’s Health Care Shift | FactCheck.org

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s position on the new federal health care law has shifted, but not as much as Marco Rubio’s latest ad says.

Rick Scott and Jeff Greene are frontrunners in new poll - St. Petersburg Times

www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/rick-scott-and-jeff-greene-are-frontrunn...

TALLAHASSEE — The anti-incumbent winds sweeping the country are kicking up a storm in Florida, where two super-rich political outsiders are threatening to knock off two veteran officeholders running for governor and U.S. Senate.

Judge tosses Florida Legislature-backed health care amendment off ballot - St. Petersburg Times

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TALLAHASSEE — Calling the wording of a Republican-backed constitutional amendment on health care "manifestly misleading," a Circuit Court judge in Leon County has tossed it off the November ballot.

MoveOn.org Political Action: Democracy in Action

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Social Security is under attack. Conservatives who want to cut benefits are using these myths to scare people. Join our campaign to fight back against the lies.

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Union Members Help Keep Daimler Plant Open—and More Bargaining News

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Multiple, Daimler Trucks North America: Good news in Portland, Ore., where a Daimler Trucks North America plant slated for closure will remain open after union members ratified new three-year contracts with the company

22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

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The 22 statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in

McCollum struggles to fend off Rick Scott ad blitz - Orlando Sentinel

articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-07-26/news/os-governor-mccollum-20100726-22_1_...

TALLAHASSEE -- Last April, with Florida's agitated electorate seemingly trending Republican, a curious thing happened en route to Bill McCollum's expected coronation as the GOP gubernatorial standard-bearer.

Wheelchair Cat: Trust Fund Kitty (VIDEO)

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The wrong partner for our schools | SocialistWorker.org

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Lee Sustar looks at the implications of the "partnership" between American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

Why Is the Public Suddenly Down on Unions?

www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2010/07/public_opinion_unions.html

The Bad Economy’s to Blame—Support Should Recover When the Economy Does

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Atlanta-Area Residents Demand Big Banks Help Struggling Homeowners

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In Atlanta—one of the areas hardest hit by foreclosures—residents who are about to lose their homes today demanded that Big Banks like Wachovia/Wells Fargo reform their policies and protect homeowners on the brink of homelessness.

Matt Reed: Oil drill stance presumes amnesia | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

www.floridatoday.com/article/201007200108/COLUMNISTS0207/7200318?odyssey=mod_rel...

Republican lawmakers say voters should not be allowed to consider banning oil drilling within 10 miles of Florida beaches because it's "already illegal." This week's special legislative session on a possible constitutional amendment is a waste of state money, they say, because drilling within sight of tourist resorts is "already against the law."

Our views: Stimulus has saved jobs, prevented worse economic downturn | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

www.floridatoday.com/article/20100725/BREAKINGNEWS/307250001/1086/

Depending on your point of view, the 18-month $787 billion federal stimulus plan is the cause of all our economic woes, or a tool in the battle against the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

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• • AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Atlanta-Area Residents Demand Big Banks Help Struggling Homeowners

  • In Atlanta—one of the areas hardest hit by foreclosures—residents who are about to lose their homes today demanded that Big Banks like Wachovia/Wells Fargo reform their policies and protect homeowners on the brink of homelessness.

  • Matt Reed: Oil drill stance presumes amnesia | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

    Republican lawmakers say voters should not be allowed to consider banning oil drilling within 10 miles of Florida beaches because it's "already illegal." This week's special legislative session on a possible constitutional amendment is a waste of state money, they say, because drilling within sight of tourist resorts is "already against the law."

    Our views: Stimulus has saved jobs, prevented worse economic downturn | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

    Depending on your point of view, the 18-month $787 billion federal stimulus plan is the cause of all our economic woes, or a tool in the battle against the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
  • Hundreds brave nine-hour budget workshop | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  • Initiatives/Amendments/RevisionsFlorida Amendments on November Ballot

  • Immigrant Workers at Non-Union Chicken Plant Stop Work over Dangerous Conditions | Labor Notes

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• Congress.org - News : Congress sends itself letters, too

  www.congress.org/news/2010/07/02/congress_sends_itself_letters_too

  It's not just constituents who write letters to Members of Congress — they also write each other.
  
  With 535 members in the House and Senate and countless bills introduced in various committees almost everyday, it is often impossible for politicians to keep up with all the legislation in Congress.

  
  

• Facebook | Congress.org's Photos - Take a Stand: Jobless Benefits

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• GOP 'Keystone Kops' Candidates May Save Dem Majorities | Democratic Strategist

  www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/07/gop_keystone_kops_candidates_...

  Mike Lux has been one of the more unsparing critics of what he terms "the culture of caution" among Democratic Party leadership and the way it dims Dems' electoral prospects. But in his Open Left post, "Thank You Republicans," Lux nonetheless sees hope for Dems in 2010.

  
  

• One More Time: The Tea Party Is the Republican Right | Democratic Strategist

  www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/07/one_more_time_the_tea_party_i...

  Back in March, I recapitulated the overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party Movement, for all the hype treating it as a new or as an independent phenomenon, was actually just a radicalized subset (a large subset, to be sure) of the conservative GOP base.

  
  

• Drilling off Cuba could be sticky proposition

  www.palmbeachpost.com/news/world/drilling-off-cuba-could-be-sticky-proposition-7...

  Despite the warnings of Dick Cheney, George Will, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, the Russians are not drilling for oil off Cuba. Neither are the Chinese. In fact, no one - not even Cuba - is drilling for oil off Cuba.

  
  

• Redistricting Florida: Lawmakers battle over redistricting Florida - OrlandoSentinel.com

  www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-redistricting-voter-analysis-07-0620100...

  TALLAHASSEE -- It's a fight over party control of the levers of government that's as old as American democracy

  
  

• McCollum wins support of social conservative

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  TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Bill McCollum has won the support of a social conservative who once blasted him as pandering to the gay community

  
  

• Firm Greene bought files for bankruptcy - Beth Reinhard - MiamiHerald.com

  www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/02/1713520/firm-greene-bought-files-for-bankruptcy.h...

  ocratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene is pitching himself to Florida voters as a successful businessman who knows how to create jobs

  
  

• After utility commission purge, is it time for consumer uprising? - Sun Sentinel

  articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-07-03/news/fl-utilities-mayocol-b070410-20100702_...

  Maybe you missed it, but something truly outrageous happened last week.

  
  

• Bill and Rick are their own worst problems - Carl Hiaasen - MiamiHerald.com

  www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/04/1715119/bill-and-rick-are-their-own-worst.html#ix...

  e Republican race for governor, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum finds himself trailing a candidate who has more baggage than J-Lo on a camel safari.