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FL Representative Under Fire For Stock Trades

By Abel Harding

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer has named US Rep Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Brooksville) as one of the members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee who engaged in the trading of financial stocks as the bottom fell out of the market last year.  The trades were ironic, the Plain-Dealer said, because these same Representatives would later sit... »

Corrine Might Deliver

By g8rluvr

Well, we all know Corrine Brown's slogan: Corrine Delivers.  In a proposed $3.5 trillion federal budget that is now being discussed in conference committee, Corrine has $432 million in earmarks for nearly 100 projects.   As pointed out in an Orlando Sentinel article, to put Brown's earmarks in perspective, consider that fellow Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite has... »

US Senate free-for-all in Florida

By Abel Harding

Jeb Bush's announcement that he will not seek the seat of retiring US Senator Mel Martinez in 2010 should set the stage for a free-for-all in both parties. Expect Alex Sink, provided she wants a DC role, to emerge as the front-runner on the Democratic side. Rep. Allen Boyd has made no secret of... »

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