Morning Roundup — Thursday
October 2, 2008 at 9:06 am by Wayne GarciaToday’s top political and media headlines from Tampa Bay, Florida and the world beyond. Updates in the aggregatin’ box to the right:
- FLA GOP leaders be freakin’ about John McCain’s big slide in this state.
- Pushing Rope to Netroots: Stop backing fringe candidates and get serious!
- One Tampa condo project gets a chance to survive after having its reorganization approved in bankruptcy court.
- The Right: Crist 2-for-2 on Supreme Court picks.
- Nader et al. taking votes away from … McCain?!?
- Economy may sidetrack class-size amendment; we can’t afford smaller classes now.
- Defending Gwen Ifill.
- Sarah Palin making a swing through Florida, including Coachman Park in Clearwater.
- FLA’s in Play! Three polls put Obama head of McCain in FLA, beyond the margin of error.
- Charges and countercharges between Vern and Christine.
- On the agenda: the selling of FLA (in this case, a longterm lease of Alligator Alley to private interests).
- In Hillsborough, no public dollars for letting the public know about a referendum to buy more environmentally sensitive land.
- Charlie not only <3 Carole; Charlie <3 the Rays.
- Tampa House candidate E.J. Ford’s homage to Mike Gravel’s Rock:
