According to the conservative news operation, a lot of bloggers out there represent themselves as unbiased, just reporting “the facts,” and very seldom do they disclose their true motivations.

Florida Conservative News investigated and discovered that Rumpf had lied (they called it “fibbing”) about being paid by the Hasner campaign to promote his lackluster effort.

Adam Hasner, one of five candidates for the GOP nomination for the US Senate, has been fluctuating wildly between 2 and 4% of the GOP vote.

Rumpf is a self-proclaimed blogger and supports Adam Hasner, as she stated on April 7, 2011 on Twitter and her personal blog.

Rumpf uses her forum to repeatedly make negative and untrue comments about other US Senate candidates, with a majority of her vitriol directed toward US Army Col. Mike McCalister and Crist appointee to the US Senate, Crist former Chief of Staff, George LeMieux. As the FCN states in their article, “Everyone has a right to comment about politics online, and we don’t fault Ms. Rumpf for sharing her opinions.” FCN points out that on August 25th, Rumpf reflecting on prior untrue attack posts stating that Col. Mike McCalister was tied to conservative anti-tax leader Doug Guetzloe and responding to Guetzloe and others that she was on the Hasner payroll, Rumpf stated: “I’m not on Hasner payroll.”

This was posted via Twitter and on her blog – shown here:

The Florida Conservative News states, “Boy, Ms. Rumpf must have a very short memory because her company, Caffeinated Campaigns, was paid $549 on August 24, 2011 — the day before her comments above — by the Adam Hasner campaign for “Fundraising Consulting.” Ms. Rumpf is the owner of Caffeinated Campaigns.

Hasner’s finance report to the Federal Elections Commission shows the payment to Rumpf:

The Florida Conservative News states: To sum up, Ms. Rumpf expressly fibbed about her relationship with the Hasner campaign. She stated on August 25th that she was not on the Hasner payroll, but had been paid $549 on August 24th, the day before. For that, she is one of our Biased Blog Award Winners.

In an example of grace, and professionalism, Mr. Cain waited for the results, and then walked the concourse of the Orange County Convention Center, thanking attendees for their support, before departing.  Supporters and well-wishers lined the hallways to congratulate the Georgia businessman for his historic victory.

Speaking via video, from his campaign bus, Mr. Cain responded to his victory, saying, “This is a big thank you to our supporters, and our staff. If not for the support, garnered all over Florida and the United States, this wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you. Without your support, and the hard work of our dedicated staff, we couldn’t have done this. The Herman Cain train is picking up steam.”

Mr. Cain, fresh from his victory will headline the Guetzloe Report on the Phoenix Network -

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– at 11:30 A.M. Monday September 25, 2011.

The Florida Tea Party celebrates with Herman Cain, winner of the Florida Straw Poll and extends our good wishes for the campaign trail, to all candidates, their families, and staff.

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America is at a crucial point.The President seems to think a pretty speech will make it all better.The country is hurting.The President seems to think class warfare, unequal taxation, attack the evil oil companies, obscene spending and protecting chronically, dependent unions will fix it.

Anywhere and everywhere, people are jobless, losing their savings, and their homes, suffering a myriad of hardships due to government mismanagement. The crisis facing America is not the fault of the vast majority of Americans. It is the fault of a confrontational, self centered, self indulgent and corrupt government, that puts politics ahead of decency, more often than junkies put their next fix ahead of a good meal.

Americans do not need another government program. America doesn’t the dozens f new government programs eluded to, tonight. We need fewer programs, less restriction and regulation, fewer retardants to prosperity and more access to opportunity, which the President’s proposals do not and can not address. Like any addict, the Federal Government must go cold turkey, on their spending habit and suffer through their own version of withdrawal.

We cannot afford a president writing checks the treasury cannot cover. We can no longer borrow our way past whatever silly spending catches the President’s eye, today. He has to be reigned in, forced through the constitutional process, to help congress and the senate balance our books, and begin the process of retiring debt, instead of creating more.

President Obama demanded 22 times, the congress “pass the bill, right now.” At least twenty-two times President Obama reminded us of how often he demands congressmen and women pass things without understanding what is in them. America can’t afford this type of electioneering. The Florida Tea Party calls upon President Obama to turn from the spending orgies of his first two and a half years in office, get the government out of our lives and return economic decisions to Americans so we can return America to a prosperous, growing, and thriving country once again.

Dr. John Long is the spokesman for the Florida Tea Party (TEA) – the Official Tea Party of Florida – www.FloridaTeaParty.US

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In Florida, Perry Faces Questions on Social Security

• by Emily Ramshaw

ephoto illustration by: Todd Wiseman / Bob Daemmrich

TAMPA, Fla. — On the heels of a GOP debate where he reasserted his controversial belief that Social Security is a “monstrous lie” and a “Ponzi scheme,” Gov. Rick Perry heads today to Florida, a big state, rich in delegates, with a key early primary — and home to many older voters.

For his leading opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the timing couldn’t be better. In advance of Perry’s first Florida swing, which starts with tonight’s co-hosted CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa and extends to a fundraising swing through Miami, Romney’s campaign has been papering the state with fliers calling Perry “reckless and wrong” on Social Security. “How can we trust anyone who wants to kill Social Security?” the flier asks.

But some Florida political observers, from Republican strategists to political scientists, suggest Romney’s messaging may play more to Florida’s retiree-heavy reputation — roughly a third of GOP primary voters here are over 65 — than to its reality. Perry’s rhetoric won’t hurt him in Florida, they say, so long as he follows it up with a remedy, and soon.

Perry’s campaign staff says Romney’s criticism of the Texas governor’s Social Security stance is a scare tactic that’s indicative of a “pattern of inconsistency.” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said that in Romney’s own book, No Apology: The Case For American Greatness, he compares Social Security to a criminal enterprise that has defrauded the American people. Perry doesn’t want to eliminate Social Security, Miner said — he wants to fix it.

“Perry has been consistent in addressing issues in an honest, open way,” Miner said. “Romney has been running for president for the last five years, and has taken multiple positions on this and a long string of issues.”

Perry will have ample time to refine his message in Florida. After a two-day stint this week, he returns next week for fundraisers from Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale to Orlando, where he and the other GOP contenders will reconvene for yet another debate. Perry will participate in Florida’s GOP straw poll, called the “Presidency 5,” on Sept. 24. But he won’t go up against Romney, who has decided not to participate.

Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida, said that even though Florida is considered an “old” state, 48 percent of registered voters are under age 50. Its seniors are “healthier and wealthier” on average. And while Social Security is clearly held dear by the people who rely on it, she said, “a high percentage of Floridians think something needs to be done” to reform it.

“We’re used to bold language in this state,” she said of Perry’s “Ponzi scheme” talk. “You just don’t hear it used in the same sentence with Social Security very often.”

Doug Guetzloe, a radio talk show host and co-founder of the Florida Tea Party, said he and many others find that language refreshing. The jury is still out on Perry, he said, particularly as Tea Party loyalists learn about his political stumbles, from mandating the HPV vaccine for young girls to backing the infamous toll road project, the Trans-Texas Corridor. But his statements on Social Security certainly don’t make them wary, Guetzloe said.

“When he makes statements like Social Security being a ‘Ponzi scheme,” he’s right, and a lot of us agree with that,” Guetzloe said. “It’s about time someone had the guts to say it like it is.”

Taxpayer advocate Senator Paula Dockery expresses concerns on recent firing and effort to privatize state prisons.