GOP women make headlines with Senate candidates, straw poll

Republican National Committee Co-chair Sharon Day (left) with Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and Florida Federation of Republican Women Man of the Year Mike Hightower. (Photo The US Report)

The Florida Federation of Republican Women made headlines after vetting three US Senate candidates and conducting a straw poll on Sunday. FFRW held its annual conference in Tallahassee at Hotel Duval, and just like in past years, the place was packed. Many people stood because there were no empty seats and there were a lot of media attending.

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Senate candidate Hasner suggests LeMieux owns piece of ‘Durbin Tax’

The blogosphere is ablaze again; flame of the day is the ‘Durbin Tax,’ an amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial regulations bill.

Anyway, US Senate candidate Adam Hasner (R) is reminding voters that Sen. George LeMieux (R) who was appointed by then Gov. Charlie Crist (NPA) actually voted for what Hasner said was the “liberal Democrat Senator Durbin’s Debit Card Tax.’

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Joint presser with Rubio, LeMieux: Florida has ‘suffered greatly’; 50 out of 50 on Stimulus

US Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) held a joint press conference by phone with Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) on Tuesday, saying Florida has “suffered greatly because of job losses” during the country’s economic downturn. LeMieux implied that big government is part of the problem, “creating thousands of pages of new federal programs that are job killers.”

LeMieux also said government is creating “such uncertainty businesses can’t hire people.” Business owners don’t know what the next mandate or regulation or new tax will be. “Eighteen months ago,” he said, “this administration said 3 ½ million new jobs would be created by August, 2010.” That didn’t happen. “Florida was 50 out of 50 in Stimulus dollars received.”

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