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Jacksonville Confidential: Corrine Delivers - Hell No!

2009-10-11T20:00:00Z

Corrine Brown just did a mass mailing to all of us Jacksonvillians this week petitioning for a chance to run in the Senatorial race later this year to occupy the seat that former Senator Mel Martinez recently vacated. ...

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Crist: Review Shows Florida Stimulus Being Used Wisely | The ...

2009-10-10T20:00:00Z

However, despite the political risk in a closed Republican primary of appearing too close to the stimulus package, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, Crist's former campaign manager and his appointment to replace former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez ...

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Jacksonville-Area Congressmen Have Interesting Foreign Ties ...

2009-10-10T20:00:00Z

Former Senator Mel Martinez (R), who recently resigned before completing his term to join a Washington, DC law firm, met with lobbyists representing the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, ...

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Meek Leads Crist In FL-Sen Race Among Voters Who Know Both ...

2009-10-10T20:00:00Z

The support among Democrats and independents that resulted led NRSC chair John Cornyn to actively recruit Crist to run after Sen. Mel Martinez announced his retirement last year. But Meek's poll shows that after a summer where Crist has ...

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Newest GOP senator denounces Democratic health reform rush ...

2009-10-09T20:00:00Z

Sen. George LeMieux, the Florida Republican who was just tapped to fill the vacancy left by Mel Martinez, gave the GOP weekly address Saturday, continuing what has become the GOP's weekly theme of attacking the Democratic plan to reform ...

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Newest GOP senator denounces Democratic health reform rush ...

2009-10-09T20:00:00Z

A gift from the governor: Bobby Bowden gets support from Florida's ...

2009-10-09T20:00:00Z

Charlie Crist picks ex-chief of staff to replace retiring US Sen. Mel Martinez. August 28th, 2009 Fla. governor taps ex-aide to replace US senatorTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist is giving Florida a preview of what he'd be like as ...

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Newest GOP senator not backing health proposals promoted by Senate ...

2009-10-09T20:00:00Z

LeMieux was appointed to fill the seat left vacant by Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) in early September by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), who is running for Senate in 2010. While Crist has posed as more of a centrist, having supported the ...

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Piano stairs - Rolighetsteorin.se - The fun theory (video)

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

...Two Republican sources said today that even as former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio campaigns for retiring GOP Sen. Mel Martinez's Senate seat, he has been calling around to top Republican donors and activists in the state to discuss the ... Fun W

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Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

The American Spectator : Marco's Million-Dollar Mo

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

Crist has been the overwhelming favorite over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio in a race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat Mel Martinez recently resigned from. .... I do not know of anyone in my part of the woods

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Orlando Sentinel - LeMieux takes to the GOP soapbox by Mark Matthews

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

The man who replaced former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez is expected on Saturday to discuss “health care proposals pending in Congress and the need for real, bipartisan reform efforts,” according to a release. ...

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Dockery Preparing to Launch Her Campaign | The Jacksonville Observer

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

Bob Martinez, Jeb Bush and for the Mel Martinez campaign in his primary campaign against McCollum in 2004. Dockery seems ready to ratchet-up the rhetoric – apparently in advance of formally announcing her challenge of McCollum, ... “I've been thin

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Burkablog: Texas Monthly

2009-10-08T20:00:00Z

Gerson uses the resignation of former U.S. Senator Mel Martinez of Florida in August as his entry point for the piece: (”[T]he departure of the Republican Party's most visible Hispanic leader crackles with political symbolism.”) ...

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Postcards from the Revolution: NY TIMES ON US LOBBYISTS HIRED TO ...

2009-10-07T20:00:00Z

... Council and as a deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs under Mr. Bush, had been promoting the Micheletti government's case until two weeks ago as an aide to retired Senator Mel Martinez of Florida. ...

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Swing State Project: SSP Daily Digest: 10/8

2009-10-07T20:00:00Z

(Although, with the exception of ex-Sen. Mel Martinez, there's not much of a Cuban political community in the Orlando area.) • HI-01: State Sen. Colleen Hanabusa got a boost today, with an endorsement from EMILY's List. ...

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Martinez's Warning to Republicans | Center for Immigration Studies

2009-10-06T20:00:00Z

As someone who lived in Arizona in the 1990s, when a large influx of illegal immigrants were met with a backlash that continues today, I agree with the warning from recently retired GOP Sen. Mel Martinez in today's Washington Post. ...

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

2009-10-06T20:00:00Z

Thomas Frank: In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, The Predator State, to his reading list. As an account of the capture of government by private interests, I thought it would ma

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up | Bloggers For Change

2009-10-06T20:00:00Z

In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading list. As an account of the capture of government by private interests, I thought it would make

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Office of Human Rights Hosts Fair Housing Forum | U.S. States ...

2009-10-05T20:00:00Z

Representatives from Senator Martinez's Office, government and non-profit housing counseling agencies, and lenders will assist homeowners facing foreclosure WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 22, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — U.S. Senator Mel ...

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