More conservative legislative endorsements for Adam Hasner

Adam Hasner announced another group of endorsements from conservative legislators today. Something I've noticed about many of Hasner's endorsements is that they have made a point to say that he is the "only candidate" in this race that they trust to hold conservative principles, often even specifically naming George LeMieux to point out that they will not support him (See endorsements from Carole Jean Jordan, Kathleen Shanahan, and Sally Bradshaw).

This most recent round of endorsements also draw a connection to Marco Rubio and how well Hasner and Rubio worked together when they were in the leadership of the Florida House, as noted by Sunshine State News' headline: "Connecting Him to Marco Rubio, Three Legislators Back Hasner in Senate Race."

Here's the press release from the campaign:

Tonight: Re-election Campaign Kickoff for Winter Park Mayor Ken Bradley

Ken Bradley has been a great mayor for Winter Park and is running for reelection. He's earned my endorsement, and you should come meet him tonight from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at Hot Olives, 601 South New York Ave., in downtown Winter Park.

Map and more event details here

As always, you can find this and lots of other great events at the "Events" tab at the top right of this website.

Happy Halloween

Some political Halloween funnies for you (click on the images to enlarge):

Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party

The Democrats have been trying to claim that the Occupy Wall Street protests are their version of the tea party movement.

Complete nonsense.

Hat tip: Francisco Gonzalez

See also:

Big Government | John Nolte | #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far
Human Events | Occupy Phoenix Asks, "When Should You Shoot a Cop?"

LeMieux falters, DC establishment panics, Team Hasner keeps marching forward

Awww. Another bad week for George LeMieux.

He has been completely unable to wash off the orange tint from his years with Crist. Since L'Affaire de Greer continues to be an irresistible story for Florida's political reporters, it's not going to get any easier for him. 

This was blatantly clear in an interview LeMieux gave to Adam Smith, in which I'm just going to assume he was extremely sleep deprived, because I cannot for the life of me figure out why a political candidate would say so many dumb things in one conversation. Either that or Charlie Crist has pretty low standards for what constitutes a "maestro." 

Seriously, someone please explain this trifecta of stupidity to me:

Come hang out with me at the Villages tonight

The Villages Republican Club of Sumter County is having an "Old Fashioned Rally" tonight, and I'll be there representing Team Hasner. They'll have live music, hot dogs, and lots of candidates have been invited.

Come say hi if you're in the area:

TODAY! 6:30 - 8:00 pm

Savannah Center

1545 Buena Vista Blvd.

The Villages, FL 32162

Remember, you can find lots of great conservative events at the "Events" tab at the top right of this page.

What the GOP can learn from Bobby Jindal

"Leadership." It's not a four-letter word. 

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar explains why:

"999 Means Jobs Jobs Jobs!"

Here is Herman Cain's new radio ad, which just went into heavy rotation on The Rush Limbaugh Show starting today:

You want a campaign team? I'll give you a campaign team!

La-dee-dah. 

I have to say, it has been quite entertaining watching certain politicos and journalists go on and on about how Herman Cain's campaign "didn't have anyone in Florida." Well, there's a big, huge, gigantic difference between "we don't have anyone" and "ha ha, we aren't telling you yet!"

St. Petersburg Times | The Buzz Blog | Herman Cain adds big names to Fla campaign team

Look for an announcement soon about some top-tier political talent joining Herman Cain's Florida campaign team.

Everyone has a 9-9-9 Plan!

Herman Cain isn't the only one with a 9-9-9 Plan:

[Hat tip: Crooks and Liars blog]

See the original 9-9-9 Plan here!

Marco Rubio on O'Reilly Factor

Here's Senator Marco Rubio's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor from earlier tonight:


FoxNews | O'Reilly Factor | Marco Rubio in No Spin Zone

Rubio discusses the controversy surrounding the Washington Post article (see my posts here and here):

Unbelievable

So, I've been working on a long list of really great posts, and you'll see them over the next few days, but I got tied up with an unbelievably weird problem today...

Someone stole my name. Seriously. 

An out-of-state campaign consultant who worked briefly with me on a campaign last year put up a website for his alleged consulting company (I say "alleged company" because I cannot find record of it actually being incorporated) and listed my name as being an election law attorney with his company. He also stole the name of another consultant friend of mine, and the vast majority of his "past client" list belonged to us, not him.

Cheese!

Here's Herman Cain at the Iowa State football game yesterday, taking a picture with their mascot:

Cain's campaign staff posted the photo on Twitter with this comment:

Team HC ~ OK. Maybe it's just us but we think these smiles seem similar. #IA #Cyclones http://t.co/4rCHsJfMSat Oct 22 21:15:56 via webHerman Cain
THEHermanCain

Cy the Cardinal is no Albert, but he does have a pretty nice smile!

Campaign Kickoff to Re-elect Winter Park Mayor Ken Bradley

Winter Park Mayor Ken Bradley is kicking off his re-election campaign next week. I proudly supported him in his first run for office in 2009, and I'm happy to endorse his reelection. Bradley deeply cares about Winter Park and has established himself as a tough advocate for fiscally conservative principles.


The election will be January 31, 2012, the same day as Florida's presidential primary. This decision to have the election on that day is saving the taxpayers about $30,000 (see what I mean about being a fiscal conservative?).

Here's all the details for for the campaign kickoff:

Headed in the Right Direction

Here's something cool...jobs numbers that are actually positive!

Governor Rick Scott posted the latest employment figures on his website, showing that Florida’s unemployment rate for September was 10.6 percent, down 1.3 percentage points since he took office.

This year shows a positive overall trend: Florida reduced the number of government jobs by 17,900 and added 110,300 private sector jobs for a net job gain of 92,400:

Those Crazy Racist Southern Republicans Did It Again!

In case you missed it, Bobby Jindal, the Republican Governor of Louisiana, was reelected last night.


"Landslide" hardly begins to cover it - Jindal captured 66% of the vote and his nearest competitor only 18%, plus eight other candidates with 5% or less. Full election results available here.

Angry Taxpayers

This is making the rounds on Facebook (I saw it posted on several friends' profiles tonight) and it's too cute not to share:

WaPo attacks Rubio, gets smacked down by facts and history and logic and stuff

Yesterday I published a post debunking the Washington Post's false and defamatory attack on Marco Rubio, "Aggressively Stupid: WaPo Attacks on Marco Rubio." There was a lot of media attention on this story during the past twenty four hours, and it was overwhelmingly in support of Rubio and scathingly critical of WaPo.

At best, Rubio was imprecise in his description of family history that happened fifteen years before he was born. Quelle horreur! Seriously. That's all this faux-controversy is about. Ask me when my mother's family moved to Florida from Indiana and you'll get a "ummm...1955? 1956?" in response. Families share their stories with each other; they don't  exchange birth certificates and affidavits.

Anyway, here's a roundup of some of the reactions around the 'net:

Update on Cain's Campaign in Iowa

Here's a good NRO profile of the new head of Herman Cain's campaign in Iowa:

"Thanks, George!" Love, Obama

In case you missed it, I wrote a post about a month ago debunking the myth that George LeMieux was a "conservative" during his few months in the Senate:

Sunshine State Sarah | Reality check on LeMieux's "conservative" voting record 

Well, looks like I have an addendum to that post. Check out this press release from the Adam Hasner campaign earlier this week...it doesn't sound so conservative when Obama is thanking LeMieux for breaking ranks with Republicans, does it?