By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 04:39 PM  | 

Reality check: Being a United States Senator sounds fun. However, actually running statewide in Florida, a gigantic state with lots of highly expensive media markets, is less fun.

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  August 14th at 04:22 PM  | 

You’ve probably seen the news by now that Tim Pawlenty has dropped out of the Presidential race after a disappointing distant third-place finish in the Iowa straw poll. I’m sad to see Pawlenty exit the race. I never completely bought into the “Pawlenty is boring” criticism. Running the United States is a big job, and I want an adult in charge. Pawlenty had a solid | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  August 10th at 12:51 AM  | 

File this under “Birds of a Feather:” George LeMieux finally got an endorsement, and he sure is proud of it. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced his support for LeMaestro’s candidacy this week, and Team LeMieux wasted no time putting together some cute little graphics for his website and GoogleAds, touting the endorsement. (You can view one of the graphics here – not sure if they’ll | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 31st at 08:37 AM  | 

Have I mentioned recently how very, very awesome my Senator, Marco Rubio, is? Here’s the bazillionth example, a video of a passionate speech that delivered by Rubio on the Senate floor yesterday regarding our debt crisis (the ease with which he delivers a smackdown to John Kerry is a nice added bonus): YouTube | SenatorMarcoRubio | Sen. Rubio: “Save The Whole House or It Will | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 27th at 11:21 AM  | 

I have been seeing an unusual (and somewhat alarming) Constitutional issue pop up during the last few months’ debt ceiling debate: does the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution authorize the President to raise the debt ceiling without approval from Congress? This post will be a little more legalese than most people like to read, but please bear with me. Obama admitted recently that his attorneys | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 08:39 PM  | 

Today the Senate voted to table the “Cut Cap Balance” Act, which the GOP-led House had approved on Tuesday. “Voting to table” is Congress-speak for “we’re too chicken to deal with this, so we’re voting to sweep it under the rug.” What exactly scares the Senate so badly about this bill that they don’t even want to debate it? I was proud to watch my | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 19th at 08:07 AM  | 

Dear House Republicans, Today you are voting on the Cut, Cap, Balance Act (H.R. 2560). The Democrats are going to say you want to hurt poor people and senior citizens. The media are going to call you extremists. The Washington insiders are going to tell you this is all unnecessary. They are all wrong. It does matter. It is necessary. If the Cut, Cap, Balance Act | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 9th at 05:33 PM  | 

Oh, those poor journalists at the St. Petersburg Times! They are under attack from Nazis! Well, of course that is not actually true. But it’s understandable why someone might think so, from the panicked headlines the St. Pete Times has been posting lately. First there was Wednesday’s hysterically-titled blog post by Adam Smith, “Has Adam Hasner gone off the deep end?” in which he claims | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  July 6th at 10:51 PM  | 

From the diaries by Erick. Have you contributed to Adam’s campaign yet? Here’s an interesting survey conducted by the St. Pete Times: St. Petersburg Times | The Buzz | The Fla Insider Poll: Adam Hasner is early favorite to win GOP Sen nomination The Times reached out to people who they deemed to be “dozens of smart Florida politicos…the savviest political minds in the state – | Read More »

By: SunshineStateSarah (Diary)  |  June 1st at 02:41 PM  | 

I am absolutely flabbergasted that someone who wants to run for the United States Senate refuses to answer a simple question about how he would vote on a significant and current Republican budget proposal. Haridopolos’ answer that his vote on the Ryan plan is nothing more than a “hypothetical” is one of the worst waffles I’ve heard from a politician in a long time.
Someone needs to get Haridopolos a dictionary so he can look up “hypothetical.” (Heck, it comes from a Greek word, “hupothetikos” so you would think he might understand it!) A hypothetical is a situation based on conjecture, a statement or idea thought to be true but unproven. The Ryan plan is no hypothetical. It’s a real and specific budget plan that was brought up for a vote this week…

Also, it’s not like the Ryan plan just came out yesterday. Ryan’s catchy little YouTube video describing his plan was posted on April 4th, almost two months ago. Haridopolos has had plenty of time to hire someone to read it for him and advise him what’s in it. Instead, Haridopolos has repeatedly refused to give a direct answer about how he would have voted on this important legislation.