Mel Martinez

Romney's Opportunism

Maribel Hastings | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Mel Martinez, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, DREAM Act, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Latino Voices News
Maribel Hastings

Romney forgets that many of those "best and the brightest" are already here, without papers, because they were brought here by their parents when they were babies or young children. They didn't make the decision to come here, but Romney wants to punish them for the actions of others.

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WATCH: Where Education And Immigration Stand Politically In 2012

Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Immigration Reform, Jose Vargas, Arne Duncan, Education 2012, 2012 Elections, Immigration 2012, George Will, The Green Room, 2012 Election, Mel Martinez, Education and Immigration, Education Reform, ABC News, Election 2012, Video, Education News

Amid a burgeoning political arena for discussions surrounding education and immigration reform leading up to the 2012 presidential election, the oval ...

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Sam Stein

Mel Martinez Takes On DeMint: 'He Defines Success Differently Than I Would'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Primaries, Mel Martinez, Senate Electiosn Republicans, Demint Success, 2010 Elections, Christine O'donnell, Martinez Dla Piper, Martinez, Martinez Demint, Martinez Odonnell, Elections 2010, Politics News

Former Senator Mel Martinez offered an unusually blunt assessment of the role that Sen. Jim DeMint is playing within Republican circles, going so far ...

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Will the Tea Party's Legacy Be to Split GOP Tickets Straight into Defeat?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Evan Bayh, Gop, John McCain, Tea Party, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Trey Grayson, Bobby Jindal, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Bob Bennett, Kendrick Meek, Newt Gingrich, Dan Coats, Nra, Sarah Palin, Marlin Stutzman, Howard Dean, American Conservative Union, Mel Martinez, Glenn Beck, Tim Pawlenty, Charlie Christ, J.D. Hayworth, Republican Party, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

In a year when Democrats are supposed to be shaking in their boots over the GOP Bogeyman's big gains in November that'll sweep them back into power, it is the Tea Party that Democrats may soon be thanking.

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GOP: This Is Your Future Calling (and Sorry, It's Brown)

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congressman Gutierrez, Michael Gerson, Ben Smith, Gop, America's Voice, Luis Gutierrez, Mel Martinez, Latino, www.gop.com, Politico, Senator Mel Martinez, Immigrant, Republican Party, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.

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Center For Responsive Politics Spotlights Lawmakers-Turned-Lobbyists

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dick Armey, Lobbyblog, Mel Martinez, Lobbyists, Business News

The Center for Responsive Politics examines the all-too-common road from Capitol Hill to K Street -- of the 44 lawmakers to leave Congress midterm, 16...

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Martinez Departure Leaves GOP Floundering With Hispanic Voters

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mel Martinez, Gop Hispanic Voters, Gop Hispanics, Martinez Resignation, Martinez, Republicans Hispanic Voters, Politics News

MIAMI — Florida Sen. Mel Martinez's resignation closes the latest chapter in the Republican Party's tumultuous, decade-long effort to woo the na...

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Aug. 17, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Mitch McConnell, Death Panels, Michael Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Glen Beck, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jon Corzine, General Motors, Geico, Mel Martinez, Myanmar, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Cash for Clunkers, Eli Manning, Obama Town Hall, Waterboarding, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Socialist, Town Hall Meetings, Hilary-Africa, Politics News
Richard Valeriani

Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.

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Sonia and the Supremes

Shawn Healy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork, Mel Martinez, President Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Kennedy, Filibuster, David Souter, Samuel Alito, Lindsey Graham, C. Harrold Carswell, Clement Haynsworth, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Confirmation, Obama-Sotomayor-Pick, Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Obama Sotomayor, Politics News
Shawn Healy

Given the alignment of stars in Sotomayor's strive for the Supremes, her sterling resume made confirmation all but inevitable.

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Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity Coffin

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Baggers, Sotomayor Confirmation, Mel Martinez, Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Mel Martinez, Mel Martinez Retiring, Hispanic Voters, Hispanics, Republican Party, Diversity, White Voters, Republicans, Politics News
John Ridley

Martínez's move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."

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Idle Speculation: Mel Martinez Is Retiring Early Because He Supports Marco Rubio

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida Senator Retiring, Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Jim Demint, Mel Martinez, Senator Mel Martinez, Florida Senate Seat, Mel Martinez Retiring, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

With Martinez retiring, it will be up to Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for Martinez's Senate seat, to name a replacement. This puts Crist in an impossible position and is great news for Marco Rubio.

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Sen. Mel Martinez Resigning

AP | BRENT KALLESTAD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mel Martinez Retiring, Republican Party, Florida Republicans, Mel Martinez, Republicans, Politics News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Sen. Mel Martinez's decision Friday to step down 16 months early gave Gov. Charlie Crist the perfect gift: his pi...

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Sotomayor Confirmation: Senate's Lone Hispanic Republican Mel Martinez Backs Sotomayor

AP | By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, Sen. Martinez, Mel Martinez, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Nomination, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's lone Hispanic Republican says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Florida Republican Mel Martinez call...

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Defense Department Lawyer: Post-Acquittal Detentions Possible

The Washington Independant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama, Hamdi-v-Rumsfeld, Gitmo, Detainees, Mel Martinez, Jeh Johnson, Iraq, Constitution, Robert Gates, Politics News

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel...

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Cuba Spy Case Poses Complications For US-Cuba Talks

Miami Herald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba Spy, Obama Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers Cuba Spy, Walter Kendall Myers Cuban Spy, Walter Kendall Myers, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Mel Martinez, Raul Castro, Cuba Spies, Cuba, Advocacy, World News

As a couple accused of spying for Cuba head to federal court Wednesday, Cuba watchers say the latest case of espionage could crimp the Obama administr...

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Crist Named "Comrade of The Month" By Club For Growth

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Toomey, Club for Growth, Conservative, Charlie Crist, Mel Martinez, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Crist, Politics News

The Club for Growth, the bane of Republican moderates, has taken another shot at Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, this time nominating him for its Comr...

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Sam Stein

Sotomayor's Nomination Puts GOP Hispanics In A Bind

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mel Martinez, Obama Hispanics, Hispanic Gop, Sotomayor Hispanic, Republican Hispanics, Sonia Sotomayor, Martinez Sotomayor, Politics News

With additional reporting by Laura Dean The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has thrust one of the more compelling political questi...

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Talk Radio Hosts Offer the GOP a Huge Leadership Pool

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Talk-Radio Hosts, Gop, Republican Leaders, Ann Coulter, George W. Bush, Right-Wing Talk-Radio, Neal Boortz, Michelle Malkin, Tucker Carlson, Republican, Dick Cheney, Mel Martinez, Laura Ingraham, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Patty Murray, Fox, Republican Party, Janet Parshall, Republican Talk Radio, Peggy Noonan, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Weiner, Conservative Talk Radio, Dennis Prager, President Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Senator Maria Cantwell, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Republican Leadership, Michael Reagan, Monica Crowley, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Conservatives, Grand Old Party, Bill Bennett, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Lars Larson, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

With the Republican Party flailing about looking for new leaders why don't any of the high-powered conservative radio talkers run for public office?

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CANF's Role In Shaping Cuba Policy A Break From The Past (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cuba, Obama Cuba Policy, Foreign Affairs, Cuban Americans, Barack Obama, Cuba Lobby, Cuba Travel Restrictions, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama Cuba, Cuba Embargo, Mel Martinez, Cuban American National Foundation, Raul Castro, Cuba Policy, Cuba, Advocacy, Bush Cuba, US-Cuba policyJorges Mas Canosa, Video, Cuba News, Canf Cuba, New Cuba Policy, New Cuban Policy, Cuban Policy, Cuban News, Cuba President Policy, Bush Foreign Policy of Cuba, World News

Amid increasing excitement in the Cuban-American community, President Obama today finally made official his reversal of Bush administration travel res...

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Ryan Grim

GOP Outnumbered At Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Cuba, Right Wing News, Mother Jones, Mel Martinez, Lamar Alexander, Orrin Hatch, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Hispanic Voters, Mike Pence, Hispanics, Democrats, Politics News

It's not a good sign for the GOP when even an avowedly pro-business gathering is stocked with far more Democrats than Republicans. On Thursday mornin...

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Ryan Grim

Obama's Mavericks? Retiring Republicans Will Be Senate Wild Cards

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Mavericks, George Voinovich, US Senate, Mel Martinez, President Obama, Sam Brownback, Obama's Mavericks, Politics News

A Republican retirement community of sorts is slowly forming in the United States Senate. The behavior of its liberated members could have profound im...

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Eric Holder Confirmation: GOP Senator Gives Support

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Republican senator Mel Martinez of Florida says he will support Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder, putting him a big step closer...

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Statewide Races a Challenge for Black Politicians?

Pamela Gentry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Blackwell, Pennsylvania, Republican Candidates, Mel Martinez, Ohio, Michael Steele, Florida, Kendrick Meek, Black Politicians, African-Americans, Republican Party, Obama Black Politicians, Republicans, Politics News
Pamela Gentry

As recent as 2006, three African-Americans ran for high-profile statewide office on the Republican ticket and all were defeated by considerable margins.

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First Dem Enters Florida Senate Race

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kendrick Meek, Jeb Bush Florida Senate, Mel Martinez, Florida Senate Seat, Politics News

Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) is expected to announce he is running for retiring Sen. Mel Martinez's (R-Fla.) seat on Tuesday morning, making him the fi...

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2010 Florida Senate General Election:
All Head-to-Head Matchups

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010, General, Mel Martinez, Senate, Inactive, Pollster, Politics News

FL-Sen: All Head-to-Head Matchups

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