Veteran Tallahassee legislator Al Lawson, a Democrat, intends to run for Congress again, this time with the help of the GOP. “Big Al” said he is going to make another stab at the Congressional seat now held by U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, a tea party Rep

We have heard ad nauseum that the Republican party was becoming more radical and right wing. But the truth is that the Democrat party has become so left wing that there literally is no place left in that party for a moderate. “Nothing works like freedom,

Rep. Heath Shuler, a co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition, is the latest Democratic agitator to announce he will not seek another term. Some of the most combative House Democrats will be gone from the chamber next year, leaving the Caucus without its mo

In 2009, Emanuel did not ask the first lady or her office for permission before he told Rep. Allen Boyd, a Democrat from North Florida, that she would go to his district for a campaign-style event. Th

She particularly wanted to help sell the health care overhaul in spring 2009. “Figure out how to use me effectively,” she told her aides, “this is my priority.” But West Wing advisers, recalling the public resentment of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s involveme

The Huffington Post gets a sneak peek at Jodi Kantor's new book on the Obamas, which brings us back to 2010, when then-Florida Rep. Allen Boyd was trying to head off a stiff primary challenge from Senate Minority Leader Al. Lawson. Even before then, ther