Category RPOF
Book Review: Grand Old Party – The History of the Republican Party
Purchase Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans from Amazon.com Professor Lewis Gould wrote this concise history of The Republican Party right in the middle of the Bush Administration as the US was embroiled in two wars of choice in the Middle East. Gould’s work takes the party from its inception as a vehicle […]
Florida GOP tax breaks do not always add up
Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald ran an earth shattering investigation into Governor Rick Scott’s failure to bring more jobs to the state of Florida. As we’ve noted regularly on this site, the type of middle-wage and high-wage professional jobs that Florida needs have tended to not transpire under the leadership of our […]
The Crist Files: Crist The Closet Democrat?
From the Crist files A Palm Beach Post Editorial from February 2007: Crist “Has Given Democrats More Than They Could Have Gotten” On Their Own In a February 2007 article analyzing Crist’s decision to use an Executive Order to restore all federal rights to felons after they have served their sentences, the Palm Beach Post […]
Left vs. Right, Florida vs. India, Corruption and Political Symmetry across the globe
After having spent sometime in India this month I have some observations on the similarities between the politics of the nation and the state of Florida. India and Florida share a somewhat similar climate but culturally are worlds apart. Yet the politics of both places are becoming eerily similar. First some background on India before […]
Jeff Atwater: Less Moderate than you may think
Florida CFO Jeff Atwater has cultivated an image as a business-savvy moderate Republican.While Atwater is far from the most ideologically driven Republican, he is no moderate. Many have speculated that if Rock Scott’s poll numbers continue to lag (though much of this talk stopped last week when the Q-poll showed Scott closing the gap on […]
TFS Pod #7: Crist v Nelson, Q-poll, state of media and capital press corps in Florida, Trey Radel, and JFK
The latest edition of the Florida Squeeze podcast is embedded below. In this edition we discuss: The continuing talk of Senator Bill Nelson potentially running for Governor. Governor’s race tightening according to latest Q-poll. Newspapers vs Independent Media and the decline in resources for journalists at major papers to do the job they once did. […]
Florida GOP trolling Charlie Crist with ineffective new website
Unlike the Floridadems.com site which is cleverly packaged the new RPOF anti-Crist site isn’t clever or cute. It is simply nasty. In fact the site which doesn’t have a memorable URL or any worthwhile content (yet) is probably best ignoring, which we will do until something worthwhile is on it.
The Crist Files: The Man Behind The Curtain: How Alleged War Profiteer Harry Sargeant’s Blood Money Has Been Bank Rolling Charlie Crist and The RPOF
In politics, much like organized crime, the way to find out the truth is to follow the money. In crime, the money brings us to the big fish or the kingpin. In politics, the money brings us to the influencers or a pol’s inner circle- those that have the most direct access to our elected […]
Murphy Defeats Gunter 51-49: What Does it Mean?
The final results are in: Democrat Amanda Murphy has beaten Republican Bill Gunter to replace the inimitable Mike Fasano by a margin of 322 votes despite Gunter’s massive support from the Tallahassee establishment and hard-right financiers the state over. But is this a one-off thrill for Florida Dems owing to exceptional circumstances — the government […]
The Florida Squeeze 