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 [...]
Major Newspapers Persist in Speculating About Florida Governor Running as an Independent for U.S. Senate
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Independents
Florida: Fliers stir outrage by comparing Student Government party to Nazis
February 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments
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. [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Tea Party Movement Renews Demand that Tea Party, the Ballot-Qualified Party in Florida, Change Its Name
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Florida Libertarian Party Candidate Alex Snitker Gets Second Place in Straw Poll
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Florida Newspapers Say Libertarians Likely to Hold First Minor Party Primary in State History
February 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Florida Whig Party: “Republicanization of the tea party movement is disturbing and destructive”
February 9th, 2010 · 11 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Marshall DeRosa running as a Constitution Party candidate for US Senate in Florida
December 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Libertarian candidate says to slash commissioner salaries
December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Update on Modern Whig Party state chapters: Florida, California, New York, Georgia
December 15th, 2009 · 15 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Florida: Third Party Tea Party
December 15th, 2009 · 28 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Palm Beach, Florida: Libertarian commission candidate Karl Dickey blasts county moratorium on pain clinics
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Tea Party qualifies for Florida ballot
November 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments
On November 6, the Tea Party qualified as a party for the Florida ballot. Florida now has 32 qualified parties.
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Green Party of Florida calls PSC approval of nuclear cost recovery “A license to steal”
October 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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.
Tags: Green Party · Non-left/right parties
Two more Whigs running for Congress in Florida
October 19th, 2009 · 24 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Lawsuit Over Florida Green Party Mystery Candidates Enters New Phase
September 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
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…
Tags: Green Party
