TAMPA A competitive race with well-known candidates and possible primaries on both sides is developing for the U.S. House seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow. ...more

March 4, 2009

The Hillsborough County Republican Party's executive board named Joshua Burgin its party administrator today. ...more

January 8, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign. ...more

November 7, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Republicans have yanked TV advertising for Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann's re-election bid after she suggested Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have "anti-American" views and urged an investigation of unpatriotic lawmakers. ...more

October 22, 2008

Bill Bunting has decided destruction of Republican campaign signs has gone too far. Bunting, chairman of the Pasco County Republican Executive Committee, said the local party is offering a $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for defacing signs promoting presidential candidate John McCain, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis or any other Republican candidate. The reward also can be collected for fingering vandals who target Republican homes. Bunting reported that someone spray painted Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's name, along with a vulgarity, on the Port Richey house of a McCain supporter. Pasco Democrats don't plan to offer any rewards, but they also are having a problem, though not with graffiti on houses. ...more

October 16, 2008

Al Austin, a high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, sent an e-mail to his list of his political contacts Wednesday containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. ...more

October 16, 2008

Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama. ...more

October 15, 2008

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. ...more

September 18, 2008

Florida's status as a key battleground state this fall won't be limited to presidential politics. ...more

July 7, 2008

Florida's status as a key battleground state this fall won't be limited to presidential politics. ...more

July 5, 2008