Confirming his rock star status in the conservative movement, freshman U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, will deliver the closing address Saturday at this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. West — whose picture is featured on CPAC’s Web site in a montage with Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — [...]

Former state House member and ex-Palm Beach County Commissioner Addie Greene is trying to pull a John Quincy Adams. Adams, the nation’s sixth president, lost his reelection bid in 1828. He then took a few steps down the political ladder and served in the House of Representatives from 1831 to 1848. Greene, who served on [...]

Former Gov. Charlie Crist and former Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink will lead a bipartisan rally today to support a constitutional ban on offshore drilling today. Crist, a Republican-turned-independent, and Sink, a Democrat, will appear with lawmakers and others at an event at 12:30 on the steps of the Old Capitol in Tallahassee. Crist called [...]

BP claims czar Ken Feinberg will appear before the House Economic Affairs Committee on Feb. 18, his office confirmed to committee chairwoman Dorothy Hukill. Hukill, R-Port Orange, and other lawmakers want Feinberg to explain why tens of thousands of Florida business owners, most of them in the Panhandle, are having so much trouble having their [...]

Gov. Rick Scott, a few of his closest aides and three of the Senate’s most powerful lawmakers broke bread at the governor’s mansion last night, covering a variety of topics ranging from Ironman triathlons to Scott’s $65 billion budget. The dinner took place just a few hours after Scott released his first-ever budget to the [...]

Newly elected U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, has the fourth-toughest 2012 reelection battle of all House members, according to early handicapping by Politico. The publication mentions West’s recent dust-up with Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and the fact that West was introduced at his West Palm Beach office-opening by former Republican Rep. Mark Foley. Tops [...]

Manuel Pintado, the 47-year-old University of Massachusetts sociology student and self-described “political activist” accused of threatening state Rep. William Snyder of Stuart, was released from custody by a Massachusetts judge Monday and ordered to present himself in court in Martin County by Friday morning to face charges. Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder, who sent detectives [...]

EUSTIS — Artist, entertainer and conservative activist Lloyd Marcus of Deltona regularly sings at tea party events and is often one of the few black people in the crowd. Marcus, author of Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has Shattered the Dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America, raised the race [...]

The Scott administration posted its budget proposal online earlier today, but the site has been down on-and-off for the last several hours, so we put up a quick table showing his proposed cuts by agency. * Share/save this post *