[8mmMauser]

Florida politics dominate the news this morning...

Crist, the state attorney general, also has antagonized the Right to Life community by staying out of last year's Terri Schiavo debate, saying the state had no place to interfere with court rulings that allowed the removal of a feeding tube from the severely brain-damaged woman, who later died.

Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, supported intervention efforts by the Legislature's Republican majority and Congress. He also was the lone gubernatorial candidate to take part in a Schiavo rally last year at the state Capitol.

Crist further distanced himself from social conservatives by breaking with President Bush over his veto last month of legislation allowing federal funding of advanced embryonic stem-cell research, a veto Gallagher applauded.

GOP hopefuls stump Central Florida

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to July 23.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

On the dem side...

He also said he was the one who put a bipartisan coalition together to keep the state out of the Terri Schiavo case for the second time. Both Republican senators from Polk, Sens. Paula Dockery of Lakeland and J.D. Alexander of Lake Wales, were in Smith's coalition, Smith said.

"Let's face it. The next governor, even a Democrat, will have to deal with a Republican Senate and House. It has to be someone with a proven track record of consensus building," he said.

Smith Says He Can Carry North Florida

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[mtbopfuyn]

...saying the state had no place to interfere with court rulings that allowed the removal of a feeding tube from the severely brain-damaged woman...

Perhaps he could lay down an outline of those who it is and is not ok to remove a feeding tube.

...who later died

Uh, some surprise, huh.

[floriduh voter]

Meanwhile, Crist made a big blunder and he'll just have to find out when everyone else does. I'm not telegraphing for CC what dumb thing he did now.