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REPUBLICANS
Fundraiser host being investigated
The Florida Bar is investigating a complaint against the law firm that employs the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor.
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND BETH REINHARD
breinhard@MiamiHerald.com
The trial lawyer who co-hosted a major fundraiser Thursday in Orlando forRepublican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist is under investigation bythe Florida Bar for what was described in a complaint as illegal ''patientbrokering'' with a chiropractic chain.
The lawyer, John Morgan, heads Morgan & Morgan, which specializes inpersonal injury cases, among other things.
Crist's running mate, state Rep. Jeff Kottkamp of Fort Myers, is a lawyer atthe firm.
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Washington group criticizes Florida's system for checking IDs of voters
By Anthony Man
Political Writer
September 21, 2006
A Washington-based advocacy group on Wednesday criticized Florida's newsystem for verifying the identities of people registering to vote,suggesting it disenfranchises potential voters.
Although the organization that complained, the Advancement Project, said thesystem was affecting "a large percentage of otherwise eligible registrants,"that doesn't appear to be the case in Broward County.
In Broward, 32,726 people have registered to vote in 2006; the new systemhas denied registration to 364 -- slightly more than 1 percent, said MaryCooney, public service director at the Supervisor of Elections Office.Sterling Ivey, spokesman for the state Division of Elections, said he didn'thave statewide numbers.
Federal law required the conversion this year to a statewide voterregistration system, Ivey said. Supervisor of elections offices submitapplication information to the state, which double-checks identificationinformation such as driver's license or Social Security numbers, Ivey andCooney said. If the numbers don't match, the application is rejected.
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Florida Congressmen break tradition with public attacks
By Larry Lipman
Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau
Thursday, September 21, 2006
WASHINGTON - Call it the doughnut-hole skirmish.
Breaking with a long-standing tradition among the Florida congressionaldelegation, Democratic Reps. Robert Wexler of Delray Beach and DebbieWasserman Schultz of Pembroke Pines sharply attacked Rep. Clay Shaw Jr. ofFort Lauderdale on Wednesday over an article by Shaw published Sunday in theOpinion section of The Palm Beach Post.
Shaw's article was a rebuttal of an Opinion-section article by Wexler,published in The Post Aug. 13, which criticized President Bush andRepublicans in Congress for devising a Medicare prescription drug benefitthat has a gap in coverage for drug costs exceeding $2,250 up to $5,100 inout-of-pocket spending.
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The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15578395.htm
Posted on Fri, Sep. 22, 2006
CAMPAIGN 2006 | GOVERNOR
President pitches Crist to party faithful
President Bush appeared at two Republican fundraisers in the state, urging party members to campaign for Charlie Crist and other GOP candidates.
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
meklas@MiamiHerald.com
ORLANDO - Conjuring up images of tax-obsessed Democrats and emphasizing the need to stay the course in America's ''great ideological struggle'' against terrorism, President Bush urged party faithful in Florida on Thursday to defeat Democrats in November and put Charlie Crist in the governor's office.
The president took his blue-state pitch to a Tampa fundraiser for congressional candidate Gus Bilirakis and later to a high-end fundraiser for Crist and the Republican Party of Florida in Orlando.
At Orlando's Ritz-Carlton, a throng of lobbyists, business leaders and community activists from around the state agreed to pay $25,000 apiece just to get in the door.
''This is an extraordinarily successful event, and I thank you,'' the president told the cheering crowd.
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Surveillance camera captures images of 4 youths linked to beating of homeless man
By Brian Haas and Macollvie Jean-François
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
September 22, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Police are searching for four boys seen in a surveillancevideo minutes before the beating and slashing of a homeless man in EsplanadePark, where a homeless man was beaten to death in January.
The four, thought to be between 12 and 15, are considered "persons ofinterest" by detectives after William Teeters was left bleeding and bruisedWednesday night in the park, said police spokeswoman Detective KatherineCollins. She said the four match the description of the attackers given byTeeters, and the video places the boys within a quarter-mile of the park 10minutes before the attack.
Teeters, 44, who has been homeless for almost a decade, according to peoplewho know him, left Broward General Medical Center Wednesday night withstaples and stitches closing wounds in his head and back. He declined tospeak to reporters Thursday. The city provided him housing assistance.
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Group Proposes 11-Mile Bridge Over Everglades
POSTED: 11:39 am EDT September 21, 2006
UPDATED: 11:42 am EDT September 21, 2006
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- A group is kicking off a campaign to get funding tobuild a bridge that would span 11 miles of the Everglades.
The Everglades Skyway Coalition, made up of business, tourism, governmentand environmentalism leaders, held a summit conference at the Biltmore Hotelin Coral Gables Thursday.
The event kicks off a campaign to build an elevated highway over a longstretch of the Everglades. Those involved in the summit said that theTamiami Trail, a road built in 1928, acts as a dam that blocks the flow ofwater into Everglades National Park and Florida Bay. They said that anelevated roadway would cure the problem and it is essential to restoring theEverglades.
Because of a lack of funding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planningto build only three miles of bridge, which the coalition said is well shortof restoration goals.
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