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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.

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The Blog for Friday, May 27, 2005

Hmmm

    Interesting:
    Arthur Anderson won election to the decidedly apolitical supervisor of elections job after one of the most politically charged campaigns in memory. Democrats who blamed former Supervisor Theresa LePore for Al Gore's defeat in 2000 energized Dr. Anderson's campaign. Now, Dr. Anderson is considering changes that could turn the office into a politically charged social-service agency. He — and voters — would be better off if he concentrated on elections.

    Dr. Anderson has cut his budget request three times in a month but still is seeking a 30 percent increase that calls for too many new employees to take on tasks that don't fall under the office's purview. He told The Post that he saw the office as a "change agent" for society, educating voters on such issues as universal health care and the debate over The Scripps Research Institute. As supervisor of elections, however, he is not supposed to be the county's social-service czar. Nor is the office supposed to take sides on political issues. Is he planning, for example, to advocate a position on abortion? As Ms. LePore's tenure made clear, it's hard enough to teach poll workers, train voters on touch-screen systems and deliver noncontroversial elections results.
    "Skip election politics; just run elections office".

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