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• Crist, Meek Rubio debate again tonight

  www2.tbo.com/content/2010/oct/06/crist-meek-rubio-debate-again-tonight/

  ABC News chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos says he is excited

   and ready for tonight's live televised debate with the three candidates

   for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat

  
  

• Chris Hedges: March to Nowhere - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

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  www.truthdig.com/report/item/march_to_nowhere_20101005/

  We can hold One Nation marches every week. It will not make any difference

   until we revolt against the formal structures of power.

  
  

• Orlando Sentinel endorsements election 2010: John Mica, Corrine Brown, Shannon Roberts endorsed for U.S. House District 3, District 7, and District 15 - OrlandoSentinel.com

  www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-congress-picks-100610-20101005,0,7483...

  District 15
  Mr. Posey's hyper-partisanship has ruined his effectiveness. So has the Republican's disregard for the facts.

   His Democratic opponent, Cape Canaveral Council member Shannon Roberts,

   clearly would better represent the district's residents.

  
  

• AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Stimulus Money Creates Jobs, Rebuilds Rail Cars

  blog.aflcio.org/2010/10/05/stimulus-money-creates-job-rebuilds-rail-cars/

  In Delaware, 50 union workers, including 20 Electrical Workers (IBEW) members, are at work and

   paying their bills  and mortgages, thanks to economic recovery money that is

   also saving Amtrak millions of dollars in new equipment.

  
  

• Labor chief: Democrats 'too timid' on health care, economic efforts

  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100502192_pf.html

  Charging that Democrats under President Obama have been too timid with their legislative agenda,

   AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka argued Tuesday that the party's embattled lawmakers would be facing

  easier reelection campaigns had they been more ambitious on issues such as health care.
  
  

• SCAT pulls plug on Cocoa Beach bus route used by seniors | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  www.floridatoday.com/article/20101006/NEWS01/10060339/1086/

  COCOA BEACH — Seniors in Cocoa Beach settled for a bus route to the community center

   when they couldn't get a community center built on an already existing bus route.
  But a year later, the city is about to put the brakes on Route 7 bus service, citing a lack of riders.

  
  
  

  The war against Florida's campaign finance laws - The Fine Print
• findout.typepad.com/the_fine_print/2010/10/the-war-.html

  With just weeks left before Election Day, there is a big legal war going on that could eliminate a large chunk

   of Florida's campaign finance laws. There are now two federal lawsuits that - if successful  - could allow 

  groups and organizations to spend money to attack or help candidates  and to mount campaigns for

   and against constitutional amendments  without ever having to report to the state who is bankrolling their efforts. (None of these efforts, of course,

   would impact filing requirements for the IRS.)

  
  

• Alan Grayson, Brash and Outspoken, Becomes G.O.P. Target - NYTimes.com

  www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/us/politics/06grayson.html?_r=3&hp

  ORLANDO, Fla. — Calling voters on behalf of Alan Grayson, the Florida congressman and 

  Democratic firebrand, can require the finer arts of persuasion.

  
  
• 05 OCT 10

  Study: Americans Get Majority Of Exercise While Drunk | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network

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  www.theonion.com/video/study-americans-get-majority-of-exercise-while-dru,18198/