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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

For each story, column, article or editorial we deem significant, we post at least the headline and link to the piece; the linked headline always appears in quotes. We quote the headline for two reasons: first, to allow researchers looking for the cited piece to find it (if the link has expired) by searching for the original title/headline via a commercial research service. Second, quotation of the original headline permits readers to appreciate the spin from the original piece, as opposed to our spin.

Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Thursday, January 20, 2005

I Don't Think So

    Miami Mayor Manny Diaz for Governor?
    Of course, there is one small problem for Diaz.

    He's not a Democrat.

    He used to be. In fact, he was a very active Democrat who helped a number of politicians around the state get elected, including U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. But Diaz renounced his membership in the party and became an independent in 2000 following the government's seizure of Elián González.

    Diaz was one of the lawyers for the Cuban boy's Miami relatives. He was very critical of Janet Reno, who was U.S. attorney general at the time, and the whole Clinton administration.

    In 2002, Diaz endorsed Republican Jeb Bush for governor. And in 2004, he sat on the sidelines during the presidential race.

    "Could defector be Democrats' Florida savior? (via Kos, where there is some interesting discussion on the issue).

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