Sen. Marco Rubio was behind a last-minute change on the final day of Florida’s legislative session to move the state’s presidential primaryelection into compliance with national party rules. Rubio, a Republican, might well be on that ballot. But that’s not...
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In this frame grab from video, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio takes a sip of water during his Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, on Feb. 12, 2013,
Rubio Intervenes in Florida Primary Move
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Charles "Charlie" Crist in Washington.
Crist’s Second Chance: Beating Scott
Charlie Crist, the only Florida governor to willingly decline a second term, looks well positioned if he wants his old job back. The second poll in as many days shows the Republican-turned-independent-turned Democrat leading incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott trailing...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry says his first priority as president would be to do away with the new health care law while being interviewed by Google Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair pin this August 15, 2011 file photo in Iowa.
Perry’s Titanic Texas: Health Insurance
Updated at 3:30 pm EDT What don’t Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have in common? Health insurance for their fellow home states’ residents. It was Perry, the Texas governor who also sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination last year, who...
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Jeb Bush, former Florida governor. Photography by William Thomas Cain / Getty Images
Jeb Bush on Medicaid: ‘Trouble Back Home’
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, visiting the Texas legislature, said that sharing his thoughts on Medicaid expansion might raise some hackles back home. It also might cause him trouble at Tenet Healthcare Corp., whose Chief Executive Officer Trevor Fetter told...
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Charles "Charlie" Crist, governor of Florida, waits for President Barack Obama to speak in Washington.
Florida’s Scott Hears Footsteps — Loudest Coming from Charlie Crist
Updated at 3:45 pm EST Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott, a former chief executive officer at HCA Holdings, could lose his 2014 re-election bid to several hypothetical opponents, including former Gov. Charlie Crist, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and...
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Four gay and lesbian Miami-Dade couples accompanied their lawyers to the clerk's office at the U.S. courthouse to file the first federal lawsuit challenging federal and state laws prohibiting same-sex marriages as a violation of the Constitution in this file photo.
Florida Poll Underscores Shifting Views on Same-Sex Unions
Back in May, just after President Barack Obama decided to finally come off the fence and endorse same-sex marriage, Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott saw the move as a political mistake in his highly competitive state. “It will hurt the...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott expressed his disappointment about the supreme court's decision concerning the health care bill. Photograph by Steve Cannon/AP Photo
After Obama-Vote, Scott Drops Opposition to ‘Obama-care’
President Barack Obama has been Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest political foil. Scott launched his political career from Tea Party rallies in 2009 opposing the president’s 2010 health care law. On the campaign trail in 2010, many of his TV...
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Florida Governor Rick Scott greets Mitt Romney during a rally at Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, on August 13, 2012.
Medicare Fraud: Obama-Backing Super-PAC Ties Scott, Romney
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who won election despite a business record including a company engaged in Medicare fraud, is not the most popular politician. The super-PAC backing President Barack Obama is counting on both that and the Medicare voucher plan...
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Florida Governor Rick Scott.
Florida’s First Tweeter Noted Aboard Air Force One: Miami Looking Up
Bound for Florida today, the traveling White House was reminding the reporters aboard Air Force One about a Twitter message that Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued last week. “Tampa-St.Pete.-Clearwater and Miami area experienced largest unemployment rate declines in country,” the...
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Putting up a security fence around the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 23, 2012 as they wait for Tropical Storm Isaac.
Republican Convention Starting? — Must be a Hurricane (Isaac, Gustav)
It’s worth taking note of Isaac’s veering course. Yet it’s worth remembering what Isaac and Gustav have in common: Ominous beads on the northern Gulf of Mexico coast at the opening of a Republican National Convention. The opening of the...
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