FLORIDA DIGEST February 10, 2008

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Washington Post
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Panel Votes to End Fla. Election Probe
WASHINGTON -- A House task force voted Friday to end an investigation into a disputed 2006 Florida congressional election after extensive testing showed that touch-screen voting machines likely worked properly. Democrat Christine Jennings called for the congressional investigation after she lost the District 13 seat to Republican Vern Buchanan by 369 votes. She suggested Sarasota County's touch-screen voting machines were to blame for the more than 18,000 ballots that did not register a choice in the contest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020900588.html?hpid=sec-politics
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Sun-Sentinel
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Matters of discrimination shouldn't be left up to voters
To those pushing to ban gay marriage through a ballot initiative: Ifsegregation had been left up to the voters back in the 1960s, Florida wouldstill have separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites. Alan PutzWilton Manors
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-brmail768sbfeb09,0,4770727,print.story
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Miami Herald
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Florida at center of party's delegate debacle
With the nomination chase in the Democratic Party turned into a numbersgame, and the candidates locked in a tight race, there's a growing sense ofalarm among Democrats that the primaries in two of the largest states in thecountry -- Florida and Michigan -- didn't count toward delegates because oftheir rules-breaking primaries. How to resolve the issue is bedeviling stateand national party leaders.
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/413609.html
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Miami - Water level 'inadequate' for projects
Regional water managers want three projects outside a designated developmentboundary rejected because the water supply is extremely low.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/413633.html
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Vote stirs confusion, quest for more cuts
Nearly two weeks after Florida voters overwhelmingly approved property-taxportability, some homeowners are rushing to take advantage of it. Butimplementing the new tax cuts is proving challenging and confusing. And widespread discontent over the state's property-tax structure guaranteesthat the issue will remain hot this year:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/413566.html
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Fort Report
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Florida's Democrats once again too wily for own good
Being a Democrat in Florida is like being the coyote in a Road Runnercartoon. Things start out so promising, but in the end you just screw upeverything in a comical way.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/yourtown/content/local_news/epaper/2008/02/10/s1c_BINO_0210.html
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Republicans losing grip on Miami Cuban vote?
MIAMI - An anti-communist militant who fired a bazooka at a Polish freighter walked free with impunity in this sultry subtropical U.S. city, and Cuban Americans favoring closer ties with their homeland could onceexpect to be firebombed here. But Miami has changed and the sometimes violent scenes of Cuban exilepassion appear to be in the past. That could spell trouble for President George W. Bush's Republican Party in November's general election, opponents and analysts say.
http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSN0136118920080210?feedType=RSS&feedName=inDepthNews
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Slap at South Florida
Last year, South Florida finally got some hope that after nearly a decade Washington would begin paying the federal government's share of Everglades restoration. Put that hope on hold for another year. President Bush, who when his brother was running for reelection as governor pledged to preserve the Everglades, has been breaking that promise ever since Jeb Bush began his second term in Tallahassee. So it was disappointingbut hardly surprising to hear that the president's 2009 budget includes far less than what is needed for the first key project in Everglades restoration.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/02/09/a10a_irl_edit_0209.html
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Who is crying now?
HILLARY CLINTON isn't the only one crying on the campaign trail. So is BobSchieffer. The veteran CBS news anchor recently told radio host Don Imus hegot all choked up watching the inspirational "Yes We Can" video, whichboosts Barack Obama's candidacy. Over at MSNBC, Chris Matthews has alreadyadmitted to tearing up over Obama's speechifying. Recently, the host of"Hardball" also compared the candidate to "the New Testament."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/10/who_is_crying_now/
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