Thursday, July 29, 2004

Senate Campaign News 20040729 Nearly every newspaper in the state had an article about Michael Moore's promise to cover the elections in Florida.  Only a couple of them made mention of the Senate candidates who were with the Florida delegation to the convention when he talked about it.  The St Petersburg Time wrote that Betty Castor was to use the occasion to unveil her Military Families' Bill of Rights, but was upstaged once Peter Deutsch and Michael Moore took the podium.  Once again Moore did not outright endorse Deutsch, but did call him a man of courage. Deutsch, Moore upstage Castor (St Petersburg Times) Filmmaker Moore vows to scrutinize Florida elections (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Castor Announces Military Families Bill of Rights and Support for 40,000 New Troops  (Betty Castor for US Senate) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill McCollum complained to the Republican Party of Florida about a comment made by a spokeswoman for Mel Martinez that lumps him in with Fidel Castro.  The complaint cites this quote "There are three people against Mel Martinez: Democrats, Castro and Bill McCollum. That's the company [McCollum] keeps." The Orlando Sentinel says that Martinez has said several times that McCollum is "working together" with Castro and the Democrats Senate hopefuls' sniping persists  (Tallahassee Democrat) McCollum calls on GOP to denounce attack by Martinez  (St Petersburg Times) Castro spat embroils Senate hopefuls (Orlando Sentinel, registration required) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Gallagher's campaign film played to a small audience at Florida Gulf Coast University. Galagher film shown at FCGU; charges swapped  (News-Press) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betty Castor is mentioned in this article about Congressional candidates doing fund-raising at the Democratic Convention. Congrssional hopefuls audition for donor  (Associated Press) Florida Senate Campaign, Politics comment []11:38:29 AM   trackback []