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Voters Coalition issues endorsements
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County???s influential Voters Coalition snubbed the home-county candidate, Lois Frankel, and awarded its congressional primary endorsement to Broward???s Kristin Jacobs. Full details. In one of the county???s other high-profile races, the...Tags: Susan Bucher, Local Government, Ted Deutch, Crime, Law and Justice, Ellyn Bogdanoff
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Jeff Atwater bypasses Adam Hasner, endorses Mike Haridopolos for U.S. Senate
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsFlorida's chief financial officer, Jeff Atwater, bypassed a fellow Palm Beach County Republican on Friday and endorsed Mike Haridopolos for the party's U.S. Senate nomination. Atwater, of North Palm Beach, is a former president of the Florida Senate....Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Politics, Palm Beach County, Florida Legislature, Jeffrey Atwater
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Liberals lean on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on tax cut extension
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsMembers of the liberal activist group moveon.org gathered last week in front of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's office in West Palm Beach. Their message to the state's senior senator: don't vote to continue the Bush era tax cuts for the......Tags: Politics, Republican Party, State Budgets, George W. Bush, Elections
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U.S. tax breaks favor oil industry
The SwampResidents of Grand Isle, La. express their frustration with BP Monday. (EPA/Bevil Knapp) by Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger It was close to 2 a.m. when Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and others on a House-Senate conference committee saw......Tags: Laws, Jeff Merkley, State Budgets, Crime, Law and Justice, Emergency Incidents
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Off-shore oil: Florida's 'third rail?'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated The threat of off-shore oil derricks on the horizon once made for great political campaign theater in Florida, where an aversion to near Gulf-shore drilling runs deep and where 27 Electoral votes are nothing to......Tags: John McCain, Environmental Pollution, Political Candidates, Emergency Incidents, Water Pollution
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Obama campaign beefs up South Florida team
Palm Beach Politics | Sun-Sentinel BlogsDemocrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign today announced that it's beefing up its campaign team in Florida, including a stronger presence in Palm Beach County. Here's a campaign news release description of the latest Obama campaign hires who will...Tags: John McCain, Education, Political Candidates, New Hampshire, Ron Klein
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Barack Obama's itinerary: Running mate?
The Swampby Mark Silva Combing through Barack Obama's campaign schedule for clues of a running-mate announcement, our colleague Don Frederick at the Top of the Ticket takes note of some stops in New Mexico and Virginia this week. "Obama this afternoon......Tags: Martinsville (Martinsville, Virginia), Regional Authority, Political Candidates, Government, Timothy M. Kaine
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Radio, robo-calls: Gettin' local on Ayers and space
Spin CycleNow, moving into the home stretch, the campaign begins to percolate as much underneath the surface as above it, as candidates localize the messages, and turn some of them into whispers. Listen to a McCain robo-call on how Obama "worked......Tags: Bill Ayers, Florida
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Extend early voting hours, says Alcee Hastings and other Democratic members of Congress
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsSouth Florida Democratic members of Congress, including U.S. House members from Palm Beach County, today wrote Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning to seek an extension of early voting hours. The request is led by......Tags: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Elections, Regional Authority, Government, Employees
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Early voting: US. Sen. Bill Nelson praises Gov. Charlie Crist's early voting extension
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsUnited State Sen. Bill Nelson walked over to Barack Obama???s Campaign for Change office after Sen. Joe Biden pumped up supporters to go out and vote at the Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter today. At around lunchtime, Nelson told Obama......Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Executive Branch, Charlie Crist, Election Day
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Barack Obama drives through Florida
The Swampby John McCormick SARASOTA, Fla. - With his frontrunner presidential campaign on cruise control, Sen. Barack Obama certainly had plenty of car analogies during a late-morning speech inside a baseball stadium here. There was a "ditch," a "dead end street,"...Tags: Bill Clinton, John McCain, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), George W. Bush, Government
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Obama to astronaut: 'Fashion statement'
The Swampby Mark Silva The president placed a long-distance phone call today - to the International Space Station - with the help of some school-kids who had some pretty good questions. The Washington, D.C.-area middle-schoolers joined President Barack Obama in...Tags: Cape Canaveral, Barack Obama, Government, National Government, Kennedy Space Center
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