The Political Whore

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FLA is already drawing notice about its early voting as some screw-ups are reported. And Barack Obama flies to see his sick granny instead of campaigning. And say it ain’t so: UF’s Mr. Two Bits is calling it quits after this season?!? It’s Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. Now the headlines:

• Cheatin’ Congressman Tim Mahoney’s wife files for divorce.
• And the political media consulting firm caught up in the mess complains.
• Mel Martinez compares Obama’s tax plan to Castro’s Cuba.
• LAT plans redesign launch next week.
• Obama drew 40,000 to Orlando rally.
• Or 50,000, take your choice.
• McCain headed to rally in Sarasota.
• Todd Palin NOT headed to Pensacola (apparently there is no snowmobiling in the Panhandle, he found out at the last minute).
• Our idiot attorney general and his ongoing war against ex-felons trying to regain normal lives.
• The Rose Garden strategy a la Ginny Brown-Waite
• Here’s a Sarah Palin animation from former Tampa Tribune artist David O’Keefe:

All of today’s top political and media headlines, plus some other crap I find online that makes me laugh, complemented nicely with updates in the box to the right:

• Mahoney boinked a second one?
• Rays make Forbes list of Top 10 sports teams likely to RELOCATE!?!
• Jeb! defends Sarah.
• The flu is here.
• Crist: Yeah, I’m still, uhh, behind John McCain. Ummm, 100 percent. Like I have an option?
• The FLA GOP still be freakin’ about McCain’s slide.
• Our hack Attorney General in FLA is steamed, STEAMED I tell ya, about felons being on the voting rolls.
• Great Schleppers in FLA find that their grandparents are already voting for Obama.
• Krugman wins first posthumous Nobel Prize in Economics.
• Tampa Bay incumbents to constituents who want to see them discuss the issues on television: Fuck you!
• Justice John Paul Stevens to speak at UF. Road trip!!
• Big Sugar Jr. and its Everglades ethanol plant.
• Conservative icon mag National Review sees writer go south on McCain.
• John Cleese knows his Palins: Sarah is like a ‘talking parrot:’

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• Rothenberg says Democrats will pick up 25-30 House seats in the election.
• John McCain was a keynote speaker for ACORN in 2006. Just one more reason not to believe the B.S. the GOP is saying about the advocacy group.
• Well, Tim Mahoney was ahead in his South Florida congressional race …
• … until this.
• 1,245 in Orlando mistakenly told they can’t vote. (Notice that the elections worker who admits the mistake here is the same one quoted in the above story on ACORN about how her office is upset at ACORN’s voter-registration errors.)
• South Florida congressional campaign volunteer dismissed after telling a caller not to vote for Obama because “he is a Muslim.”
• And the man who fueled that particular falsehood.
• Out of prison, former Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne lands a job as a consultant with a lobbying firm.
• A critique of conservative blogging as real journalism in the face of blog reports about Barack Obama’s “secret girlfriend.”
• If the Busansky campaign really is relying on headlines, then it is in biggggg trouble.
• The Trib’s Anwar Richardson (who last time he appeared in this column was flogging the incredible economic impact of Brett Favre’s imminent arrival in Tampa Bay) is at it again.
• Ringo is far too busy to sign autographs, so stop sending him shit.
• Is there anybody on the planet who doesn’t do Christopher Walken?