Charlie Crist & Marco Rubio

Over the last few weeks have you noticed how the media has been presenting Crist in a positive light?  They haven’t been hitting him like they were on his endorsement of Obama’s stimulus, for the last 2 weeks I have been hard pressed to find anything remotely negative about Crist in the mainstream media.

After the shellacking the Democrats took in Massachusetts you can expect the media to essentially take the gloves off now.  This past weekend the Liberal media attempted to paint Rubio as a horrible carnivore.   Then you had the Press Corps meeting in Miami.  None of the questions they used in their video or reporting had to do with the issues.

This morning on a conference call Rubio noted, “You’re going to see a very aggressive mainstream media in the aftermath of the Massachusetts Senate race. There wasn’t enough time for them to have an impact on a late-breaking phenomenon, and I think you’re going to see them react to that experience… The mainstream media agrees with this administration and its view on the role of government, and they’re going to be very aggressive against anyone who challenges that. When we were just a blip on the screen, we were an interesting curiosity, but now that we’re in the lead, they’re going to be very aggressive.”

Today the Rubio campaigned announced a fundraising blitz.  They want to raise $1,000 for every $1 Billion of the wasted $787 Billion of the so-called stimulus.  February 10^th marks the one-year anniversary of the Crist-Obama man hug that has haunted the Crist campaign.

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Kendrick Meek

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, D- Miami, today picked up Senate endorsements from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and U.S. Rep. Corinne Brown, D-Jacksonville, who had been exploring her own run for Senate.

Sink, a 2010 candidate for governor, is one of two Dems to hold statewide office in Florida. The other — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson — hasn’t formally endorsed Meek, but was listed as a host for a Meek fund-raiser in Washington this month that was headlined by former President Bill Clinton.

Meek is the heavy favorite to win the Democratic Senate nomination, but former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre announced this month that he will also run as a Democrat.

Kendrick Meek

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Democrat Kendrick Meek raised about $1.2 million for his Senate campaign over the past three months while Republican Marco Rubio took in more than $340,000.

Meek, a congressman from Miami has now deposited more than $3 million into his campaign account since announcing his candidacy in January.

Rubio, a former House speaker from Miami, announced his candidacy in May.

Rubio and Meek released their figures Tuesday.

Republican Gov. Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign hasn’t announced their fundraising totals for the quarter ending June 30. However the Orlando Sentinel last week stated that Crist had raised almost $3 Million.

All are seeking the seat Sen. Mel Martinez is leaving after one term.

A press release went out today from Citizens Against Government Waste and it mentioned several members of Congress from Florida.  Including Suzanne Kosmas of Orlando.  Below is the press release ——–

(Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released its preliminary analysis of the House version of the fiscal year 2010 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.  There are 272 projects costing taxpayers $156 million.  This represents a 10.1 increase in projects and a 15.6 increase in spending from fiscal year 2009.

As usual, appropriators loaded the bill with pork.  House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) requested seven projects worth $7,193,000, while Ranking Member Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) requested five projects totaling $2,750,000.  Here are some outrageous examples of wasteful spending that members of the House added to the bill:

• $500,000 by House appropriator C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and John Sarbanes (D-Md.) for the Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail in Maryland.  According to a press release on Rep. Sarbanes’ website, “the trail commemorates some of the most important events of the War of 1812 including the battle at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem.”  Eliminating the deficit would be much more patriotic.

• $500,000 by House appropriator Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Reps. Ron Klein (D-Fla.), Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.), Kendrick B. Meek (D-Fla.), Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), and John Mica (R-Fla.) for the Florida National Scenic Trail.  The trail runs from Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola to Big Cypress National Preserve west of Miami.  The funds will be used to acquire approximately 267 miles of gaps in the trail, according to Rep. Wexler’s website.

• $150,000 by House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee member Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) for the restoration of Cotrill’s Opera House in Thomas.  The fat lady is singing and it is for the end of fiscal sanity.

• $150,000 by House appropriator Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) to help restore Tarrytown Music Hall.  In the past, Tarrytown has received $20,000 from the Junior League of Westchester-on-Hudson, as well as other contributions ranging from $1,000 to $40,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the Rotary Club of Tarrytown, and several individuals, all for a new air conditioning system.

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.