Charlie Crist

Lawyer channeled millions into businesses, charities, expensive toys

High-flying lawyer channels millions into businesses, charities, political candidates and expensive toys Seldom has a South Florida figure flown so high, so visibly, so fast – and plummeted so dramatically. Attorney Scott...

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GOP at war with itself won't win much

By Eugene Robinson WASHINGTON — Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday’s elections, but Republicans don’t have time to think. That way, any Republican caught without a copy of “Quotations from Chairman Sarah” could be...

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Governor Crist Speaks Out On Accusations

As Governor Charlie Crist makes his bid for the U.S. Senate seat, some are criticizing him for abandoning his Republican base and swinging too far to the middle. CBS4 News caught up with Crist at the Make a Wish Foundation gala...

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Mark O'Brien: Let's hear it for women in politics

Mark O'Brien • mobrien@pnj.com • November 8, 2009 It's time for me to mosey over to the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival and get a new painting of dogs playing poker or maybe a BillyBass for my wall. Meanwhile, please check out...

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Leaders, please step forward; the city needs you

J acksonville is stuck in the doldrums, spinning its wheels, getting very little accomplished. We have a lame-duck mayor who is anxious to leave office. The current City Council leadership isn't exactly visionary. Standing...

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Lawyer Scott Rothstein drained pals to live life of high roller

If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook? Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when,...

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Succinct health bill

Succinct health bill The Republicans are complaining about the length of the House's draft healthcare bill: 1,900 pages. To put their carping in context, the scholar Norman Sherry wrote a three-volume biography of one man, the...

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No bond for accused Orlando office shooter

Emergency workers transport a victim from a shooting in downtown Orlando on Friday. A judge ordered that Jason Rodriguez, 40, be held without bail at the Orange County Jail in Orlando for Friday's shooting. Employees at...

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Congressman Miller calls on Greer to resign

Rep. Jeff Miller is calling on RPOF chairman Jim Greer to step down -- a day after Gov. Charlie Crist defended the party chief, saying he's "done a great job. Said Miller in a statement e-mailed to reporters: "Jim Greer...

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Crist says he still supports stimulus concept, if not bill (digging a hole deeper alert)

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says he is not flip-flopping when it comes to support of the federal stimulus package championed by Democrats, saying his comments earlier this week to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer were more about the actual...

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