CLEARWATER, FL -- Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Miami) arrived in Clearwater, Fl., Saturday night, the seemingly-forgotten, likely Democratic candidate for United States Senate in Florida, buried beneath the headline-capturing battle between Gov. Charlie Cri ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 3:43PM
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1. As part of his statewide "Jobs for Florida" tour, Kendrick visited 12 cities in just four days. He traveled from South Florida to Tallahassee to Tampa to Indian River County talking to middle class Floridians about his vision for creating jobs acr ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 12:21PM
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Dear Friend,
This campaign is moving at full force with new developments each day.
That's why we wanted to give you, our most loyal grassroots supporters, the six things you should know right now about our campaign.
From a statewide "Jobs f ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 1:35PM
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/04/florida-senate-kendrick-meek-charlie-crist-independent-marco-rubio-campaign.html
ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Matt Loffman report:
If Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) abandons the Republican Party and runs fo ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 1:32PM
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/dont-be-shy-about-meeks-chances/39020/
Mark Blumenthal picks up on something I've been wondering: when Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL) is paired against likely Republican nominee Marco Rubio in a two-w ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 1:25PM
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Why doesn't Kendrick Meek get more respect?
For the last few months, when talk turns to Florida, political pundits have focused on the meteoric rise of Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist in the state's Republican primary for Senate. And today, with a ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 1:21PM
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Tonight on MSNBC's Hardball, Chuck Todd said Meek is well positioned in the Florida's U.S. Senate race. The clip can be found here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDtZ9aMTw0).
Here is the transcript:
Chuck Todd: "If (Crist) runs as an indepen ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 5:57PM
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Here is a quick run-down of what people have said and written about Kendrick's campaign in the past 24 hours:
Yesterday, President Obama singled out Kendrick during his stop in Miami: "Somewhere around here is the next senator from the great state ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 5:47PM
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Miami Gardens, Fla. - Kendrick Meek today issued the following statement regarding the announcement of Florida's seasonally adjusted March unemployment rate rose to 12.3% from the February rate of 12.2%:
"Today's news reminds us that much more wor ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 9:50AM
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Miami Gardens, Fla. - U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek released the following statement regarding President Obama's speech on NASA's future in Cape Canaveral today:
"Canceling Constellation's manned shuttle program means Florida will lose out i ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 2:44PM
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Benjamin L. Hooks, who as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 16 years championed minorities in an increasingly conservative political era, died at his home in Memphis. ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 1:05PM
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Miami Gardens, FL - Kendrick Meek today released the following statement praising Florida's teachers and students for bringing public pressure on Governor Crist to veto SB 6, an unprecedented assault on Florida's teachers:
"Nothing is more powerfu ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 11:25AM
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Dear Friend,
Are you on Facebook and Twitter? Kendrick Meek is, and so are thousands of his supporters. Will you join us today?
The pace of this campaign is picking up and our Facebook page and Twitter feed are the best ways to get up-to-the-mi ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 11:44AM
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http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-04-11/story/democart-meek-not-shy-campaigning-locally-us-senate-seat
The plan: Tug at blue collars to win over red voters.
If Kendrick Meek, a Democratic congressman from Miami, can pull that off in Jacks ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 11:39AM
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/10/1573624/kendrick-meek-the-regular-guy.html
ORLANDO -- In a pool hall lit by Budweiser lamps and big-screen TVs, U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek and a few union leaders from the nearby Lockheed Martin plant ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 11:31AM
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http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2010/04/kendrick-meek-tells-crist-to-veto-teacher-bill-.html
Add Gov. Charlie Crist's potential rival in the U.S. Senate race to the long list of people lobbying him on Senate Bill 6.
Democratic contender Kendrick ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2010 at 12:18PM
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When Della Miles was a student at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, everyone new she would be a brighter star one day having been selected Miss PVAMU and 4th Runner-up to Miss Texas/America 1984.
Well, Della's star is shining bright in German ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 10:45PM
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Prairie View, Texas: -- The Dallas Hilton Anatole Hotel was the scene for the 2010 Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Regional Expo which attracted some 900 students from 60 university from across the country. The Prairie View A&M University SIFE Te ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 5:12PM
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The Give God the Glory! nine-book series by multiple-award winning and best-selling Christian author, Kevin Wayne Johnson, continues to expand around the world. Johnson enthusiastically embraces God's Word, not only for his life, but presents it in s ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 1:58PM
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The Florida Division of Elections today confirmed that Kendrick Meek's U.S. Senate campaign gathered enough valid petitions to be placed on the 2010 ballot, officially making Kendrick the first statewide candidate in Florida history to qualify for th ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 4:41PM
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Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to speak to your community.
I'm traveling all across the state getting to know Floridians and telling them about my story. I can't talk to everyone personally, though, and since I'm running for U.S. Senate ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 1:24PM
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Live Oak, Fla. - U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek held an economic roundtable with North Florida business owners and professionals today to discuss the state of the local economy. At the meeting, Kendrick also discussed his plans for bringing jobs ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 10:42AM
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The BSI team will be away on travel and will continue daily features on April 19th. However, we'd love to see who you might feature while we're away. Feel free to share information on our wall about Black Scholars you admire! We look forward to read ...
Posted Tuesday, April 6th 2010 at 9:24PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Charles E. Young, the 23rd President of Allen University.
http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/04/hbcu-presidents-dr-charles-e-young-allen-university/ ...
Posted Tuesday, April 6th 2010 at 2:59PM
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