Dick Cheney’s endorsement pretty much makes Marco Rubio the official Republican candidate in the GOP primary for Senate in Florida — and leaves poor Charlie Crist high and dry.
Today looks likely to be a big day on Financial Regulation Reform. So keep up with all the latest developments on our auto-updating Finance Reg Reform Wire.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele: “For the last 40-plus years we had a ‘Southern Strategy’ that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South.”
Greg Sargent has more.
Sometimes the biggest progress on LGBT equality comes in unexpected even paradoxical ways. Like this case in Philadelphia where one candidate is trying to “out” the other contender as actually being straight, not withstanding his claims that he really is sexually attracted to men as well as women. This all got started when candidate Gregg Kravitz brought a ‘girlfriend’ to an event after first professing to be gay. His opponent says he was just pretending to be gay and now bisexual to appeal to progressive and LGBT voters. Rachel Slajda has the story.
In apparent mockery of Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden, someone has posted an ad on Craigslist in Reno offering up a chicken in return for a heart transplant. We grabbed the ad in case it gets taken down. You can see it here.
A bit too early to say anything definitive. But Charlie Crist’s standing among Florida voters seems to be rebounding since he began signaling he might abandon the GOP.
NRSC tells Harry Reid to stop “try[ing] to inject farm animals” into Nevada Senate debate.
The Nevada GOP is trying to defend Sue Lowden’s ChickenCare proposal.
Their argument is that the Dems are focusing on chickens because they can’t deal with her argument on the merits which they, somewhat creatively, interpret as getting rid of the health insurance model in favor direct cash negotiations between patients and doctors. Says the Nevada GOP’s Ciara Turns: “They can make this about chickens and about goats, and using one word instead of another word – maybe she should have said ‘negotiation’ instead of ‘barter.'”