Ballot Access News:
The Washington Post for March 9 has this speculation about the idea that Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is running for U.S. Senate this year, might become an independent candidate. Crist says nothing to encourage this idea. But, polls show that Crist will lose this year’s Republican primary badly if he remains in [...]

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Tomas Stewart
Gainesville Sun
Politics isn’t always pretty and Student Government politics at the University of Florida is no exception.
Fliers comparing one student government party to the Nazi Party, complete with a swastika, were posted on campus and at city bus stops Wednesday, prompting UF to look into the matter and one student to ask U.S. Rep. [...]

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Ballot Access News:
As noted earlier, on January 19, 2010, the South Florida Tea Party, Inc., had filed a federal lawsuit, demanding that the ballot-qualified Tea Party change its name. On February 17, the South Florida Tea Party, Inc., filed an amended complaint. It again asks that the court order the ballot-qualified party to change its [...]

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LP blog:
Alex Snitker, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, recently got second place in a large straw poll at a local tea party event.  Snitker was able to give a speech, as well as make a TV appearance on the local news channel (http://www.wftv.com/news/22559424/detail.html).
In the straw poll, Snitker defeated Charlie [...]

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Ballot Access News:
The Seminole Chronicle has this story, saying that because two Florida Libertarians have both announced an intention to file for the same legislative seat, election officials will conduct a Libertarian Party primary (in that district only) in 2010. The newspaper says this will be the first minor party primary in Florida history.
The claim [...]

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In a response to the Tea Party Convention held in Nashville, Tennessee last week, the Florida Whig Party stated on the group’s blog (in part):
While we have been in agreement in spirit with the Tea Party Movement, the time has come to make it perfectly clear that:  The Florida Whig Party finds the Republicanization of [...]

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Posted at Constitution Party News:

Marshall De Rosa’s U.S. Senate Campaign in Florida
for Independence from “D.C. Tyranny”
http://www.marshallderosa.com/
http://www.cpflorida.com/
Dr. Marshall De Rosa, Political Science professor at Florida Atlantic University ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy27phHLmoc&feature=related) announced his Constitution Party candidacy for the United States Senate on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Professor De Rosa spoke of his decision to [...]

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Karl Dickey in the Examiner:
Palm Beach County commission candidate, Karl Dickey said this morning, “Our county commissioners should take a pay cut showing they are serious about getting the budget under control. We need to slash commissioner salaries by at least 35%.”
Although such a reduction is mostly symbolic based on the size of the county [...]

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Compiled posts from The Whig blog. See also previous IPR coverage: Modern Whig Parties in Indiana, Texas profiled on The Whig blog; Modern Whig Party National Council Meeting Recap.

“Florida Whig Party” Breaks With Modern Whig Party
According to the “Florida Whig Party” site, they have decided to no longer associate with the Modern Whig Party.
First, a [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea:

In early November, I noted that Florida tea party activists had officially “declared their independence” from the farce that is Democratic-Republican politics, by registering their group as an official minor party. The group’s website is now up and running. Its front page features a declaration of independence from the Democratic and [...]

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The Palm Beach Post reports:
Our Jennifer Sorentrue reports that Palm Beach County commissioners this morning approved a one-year moratorium on approving new pain-management clinics amid concerns that drugs are being dispensed with insufficient controls.
A recent Palm Beach Post investigation found that more than 30 such clinics have opened in the county since 2007. Among [...]

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On November 6, the Tea Party qualified as a party for the Florida ballot. Florida now has 32 qualified parties.

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Referring to an October 16th decision about “nuclear cost recovery” funds, GPF spokesperson, says, “Granting FPL and Progress Energy permission to raise utility rates to pay for risky and unnecessary nuclear plants is like giving them a license to steal.”

In February, the Green Party of Florida joined with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Ecology Party to file a Petition to Intervene in the NRC licensing process for the Levy Nuclear Plant. The NRC’s Atomic Safety Licensing Board admitted a number of the petitioners’ contentions, and Progress Energy is required to respond to them before the Construction and Operating License application can be approved.

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Two more Modern Whig Party members have announced a run for Congress in Florida.  Paul McKain announced his months ago, and now Clayton Schock and John Annarumma are running in Florida’s 20th and 3rd congressional districts, respectively.  To get on the ballot, according to Ballot Access News, they will need to either pay a $8,500 [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: In 2008, five Florida voters filed in the Green Party primary to run for the legislature. No Green Party leaders had ever been aware of them, and circumstantial evidence suggested that Republican Party activists had recruited them to run, for the purpose of giving the Republican nominees in those five districts an advantage…The state chair of the Green Party filed a lawsuit last year, seeking to find out whether the candidates’ campaign finance reports might have been untruthful…

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