The fight for Florida’s 22nd congressional district is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched and expensive elections in the country. Again.
The Congressional Black Caucus will allow two black Republicans, Allen West of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina, to join, according to a statement made by the CBC’s chair, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
“Should either of the two African-American…
Rep.-elect Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale — one of two black Republicans elected last week to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first African-American Republicans voted into the House since 2003 — plans to join the Congressional Black Caucus, which…
It was perhaps the nastiest, most personal fight in the state this season, and clearly one of the most expensive.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, a Democrat, fought hard to stave off tea party favorite Republican Allen West during a brutal campaign in which each side attacked the other with personal insults, character assassinations, even alleged threats of personal violence.
Via The Miami Herald blog Naked Politics:
[The New York Times' election projection] has Republican Allen West toppling the Democratic incumbent Rep. Ron Klein, 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent.
Political operatives are exploiting new loopholes to create outside groups that can spend unlimited amounts opposing or supporting candidates nationwide. Many of these so-called “Super PACs” have only registered within the last few weeks, meaning voters won’t know who is funding them till well after election day.
One Tampa address — 610 South Blvd. — has become synonymous with the phenomenon.
Republican congressional candidate Allen West voluntarily joined the Broward Teachers Union between 2004 and 2005 for the one year he was a high school social studies teacher at Deerfield Beach High School, a move at odds with his hostile attacks on unions during this year’s election.
Out of a total of 345 contributions between Sept. 1 and Oct. 13, just five donors contributed 88 percent of the funds to American Crossroads, a “super PAC” affiliated with former Bush White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove and…
Allen West, Republican candidate for the District 22 Congressional seat, circulated photos of rival, Democratic congressman Ron Klein, posing with men in biker regalia, claiming they were from the same group as the men who recently threatened a Democratic…
The Florida Division of Elections released this week its latest report on voter registration data that show there are 11,217,384 registered voters in the state.
The data show that in congressional District 24, where Republican Sandy Adams faces…
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