The 20th and possibly last GOP presidential debate was held last night in Arizona, and how do we put this? We weren't really impressed with the whole show. The conventional wisdom is that Mitt Romney got the best of Rick Santorum, but what is that really saying? You can read our take here.
Lots of other news yesterday, such as the Hillsborough County Commission rejecting a proposal to change the configuration of its seven-member board to include another single-member district, potentially one that would represent the 25 percent of Latinos now living in the county. But all five Republicans on the board rejected the proposal, which would have gone onto the ballot this November for voters to decide.
Rumors about the Tampa Tribune exploded late yesterday when Media General announced they had received inquiries about several of the 23 papers they own in the Southeast. It was a bit of a tease — or was it?
Marco Rubio's name came up in last night's debate. The Miami-based Republican Senator sounds more sympathetic to illegal immigrants than he ever has in a new Time magazine interview, but he's still against passing the DREAM Act.
And back to Mitt Romney for a moment. Did you know he spent $42 million of his own, Bain Capital-earned capital on his unsuccessful presidential bid four years ago? He's spending considerably less this time around.
This article appears in Feb 23-29, 2012.