Sayfie Review publisher Justin Sayfie added a new feature to his popular website this year: one-on-one video interviews with Florida politicians.
Here's his latest with Governor Rick Scott, discussing job creation, Florida's editorial boards, Hurricane Irene, the Presidency 5 convention, CPAC FL and the 2012 presidential race:
Today is the ninth anniversary of the launch of the Sayfie Review. Publisher Justin Sayfie has done an excellent job making sure his website is the "must read" every morning for Florida politicos.
Justin sent out the following message this morning:
Thanksgiving on Our Birthday
Today is a special day for the Sayfie Review - it is nine years old today. As we pause (briefly) to celebrate our birthday, we are also giving thanks to you and every reader who has made the Review what it has become during the past nine years.
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) lays down the law for GOP candidate, stating unequivocally that he will not support any presidential hopeful who isn't tough on budget issues:
"I couldn't support a presidential candidate who did not say we have to have a balanced budget amendment pass before we support [raising the debt ceiling]," DeMint said. "I think we should go to the mat with Obama. I don't think there should be any compromise on that, and if Obama wants to be closing part of the government next fall because he's unwilling to balance the budget, I think we can win that argument."
Here's another Washington Examiner article about hearings held by Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-FL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) regarding the Obama Administration's lack of transparency:
Also, if you're not already following Congressman Issa on Twitter (@DarrellIssa), you really should. Besides posting lots of great updates about his work as "chief watchdog" for the House GOP, his profile picture (or "avi," in standard Twitter parlance) is just great:
Darrell Issa is watching you.
Homefront Hugs USA is a unique charity that supports our military. They are collecting Legos, which will be used both as a way for our troops in Afghanistan to bond with local children, and also to assist with rehabilitation for injured veterans. The little plastic blocks are excellent practice for fine motor skills and reasoning abilities that can be affected by head or other nerve injuries. Here's a blog post about the charity and all the info you need to participate:
Looks like Donald Trump's flirtation with running for President may be coming to an end. Recent polls show his support taking a nose dive. Personally, my opinion is that the man can't even manage his hair competently, so I definitely don't want him having access to our nuclear codes!
Our wonderful Senator Marco Rubio is teaming up with Senators Pat Toomey, Jim DeMint, Mike Lee and others to offer a proposal that would balance the federal budget within ten years. Jennifer "Cubachi" has an excellent write-up about the proposal, including a video of Rubio at a press conference at her blog, here:
Sayfie Review editor Justin Sayfie interviewed Governor Rick Scott on a variety of topics, including the date of Florida's presidential primary, the GOP presidential candidates, his thoughts on this year's legislative session, Donald Trump (yes, really), and his decision making process regarding appointments:
The Sayfie Review recently launched a new social news aggregator, "SayfieBook," which collects any links that your Facebook friends share from the major newspapers around Florida.
Please forward this to your friends, post on Twitter using the hashtag #sayfiemeetup, and remember to RSVP at the Meetup site (there are links there to the Meetups in other cities...if you don't see your city, feel free to sign up and add one!)
Fun event coming up next week...the Sayfie Review is organizing "Sayfie Review Summer Meetups" all around the country on Thursday, July 15th.
The Orlando event will be at Paddy Murphy's in Baldwin Park from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Please go to the Meetup site and RSVP...a brand-new, shiny iPad will be raffled off to someone at the Sayfie Meetups with the top two most RSVPs.
Please forward this to your friends, post on Twitter using the hashtag #sayfiemeetup, and remember to RSVP at the Meetup site. There are links there to the Meetups in other cities...if you don't see your city, feel free to sign up and add one! Hope to see you on July 15th!
The announcement went out this morning that the Sayfie Review is organizing Sayfie Review Summer Meetups around the country on Thursday, July 15th.
I'm helping organize the Orlando event at 5:30 pm at Paddy Murphy's in Baldwin Park. We have a private room reserved and it should be a lot of fun. New cities are being added in the next few days. Please forward the link to your friends and make sure to RSVP...the Sayfie Review is giving away an iPad to someone at the two Meetups with the most RSVPs as of July 14th.
We would also appreciate it if you could retweet this event to your twitter followers, with the hashtag #sayfiemeetup.
There's also a widget you can post on your own website or blog:
Here's something fun...the folks at Sayfie Review have put together a Twitter feed that follows all tweets with the #sayfie hashtag (generally seems to be used for Florida political news topics). There's also a link to see tweets from Florida politicians.
Anyway, if you use twitter or would just like to see what people around the state are saying about various political topics, check it out:
Seriously. If you are even slightly interested in Florida political news, you need to read the Sayfie Review.
Their logo says it all:
...and just to drive home the point, the website added a feature a few months ago that allowed readers to submit their names and titles to the site. A quick scan down the list shows a true "who's who" of Florida politics and business (shameless plug: and the publisher of this blog!):
