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In a phone call with supporters just a few momrnts ago, Connie Mack announced WILL run for the Bill Nelson seat from Florida. It's official

David Williams of The Los Angeles Times has uncovered a $433 million dollar government contract to purchase a smallpox anti-viral drug that may, or may not, be necessary in the case of a bioterrorist attack. For that matter, we are not even sure if the drug will work. ST-246, a pill to be manufactured by Siga Technologies, Inc., would come into play as a second level of defense in the event of a smallpox attack. Currently, the nation has stockpiled some $1 billion in smallpox vaccines, enough to inoculate the entire U.S. population and treat those who have contracted the...

Americans are pushing back all over the country. It's very clear that a revolution is in full swing. Tea Parties have been organizing to fight the bailouts and taxation. Occupy Movements have be springing up to fight against Wall St corruption at the hands of the Federal Reserve. Americans are pulling their cash out of Big Banks and supporting local Credit unions, as we move into a heated election season where it looks like it's anyone's game. In today's exclusive special report Gary Franchi is joined by Former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack. They discuss the County Sheriff Project, a...

Republican Congressman Connie Mack changed his mind late last month about challenging longtime Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, and now he finds himself with a modest edge over the incumbent in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Florida’s U.S. Senate race. The latest statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Mack with 43% to Nelson’s 39%.

By tossing his hat into the ring, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack has transformed the campaign for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, putting him far ahead of the field for the Republican nomination and in a statistical dead heat in the general election, with 40 percent to incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson's 42 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Mack, son of the former U.S. senator who bears his same name, gets 32 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, while none of the other four mostly unknown aspirants get more than 9 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University...

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unexpectedly signaled late Wednesday that he will enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, apparently convinced other candidates cannot defeat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. "He's getting in the race," adviser David James said in an e-mail. "Making calls, assembling a team. He will have more to say in an announcement in weeks to come." Mack, R-Fort Myers, considered entering the race earlier this year but decided to focus on his House duties. He was friendly with another candidate, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos, who dropped out months ago. This summer, rumors surfaced that Mack was again...

Rep. Connie Mack questions Secretary Hilda Solis about how she classifies a green job. She is caught in a squeeze trying to lie her way out of false reporting by categorizing a bus driver job as "green" if they drive a hybrid bus. Finally, he hits her with a truthful statement about administration deceit.

Congressman Connie Mack did not vote to raise the debt ceiling before the August recess. He was looking for a long-term solution to the nation’s deficits, which are leading to unsustainable debt. After working with some grass-roots groups, Mr. Mack designed the “One Percent Spending Reduction Act,” or, the “Mack Penny Plan,” which, he says, will cut and cap federal spending, and balance the federal budget in eight years. In short, the “Mack Penny Plan” would: • Cut federal spending by 1% each year for 6 years • Cap spending at 18% of GDP in the 7th year • Balance...

Now that the national debt-ceiling deal is done — and liberals like me are unhappy and conservatives deservedly have more to cheer about — Thanksgiving 2011 will be more than about good turkeys. This is the deadline for the so-called “super” congressional committee of six Democrats and six Republicans from the House and Senate to cut at least $1.2 trillion in the projected budget deficit for the next 10 years. I favor at least one-half of this $1.2 trillion to be funded by a combination of tax reform — closing tax loopholes — and increases in marginal tax rates of...

Georgia First and Tenth Amendment Solutions will be hosting a one-day conference at the Atlanta Airport Hilton on this Saturday, June 4th, from 10:00am to 1:00pm with Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona. Other organizations sponsoring the event include The State of Georgia Tea Party, Peach Tea PAC, Georgia Life Solutions, Oathkeepers, Elect the Right Candidate, and the John Birch Society. Sheriff Richard Mack is well known across the country for standing up for the authority of local sheriffs and regularly speaks about the fact that the local sheriff is the highest constitutional officer in every county in America. Several years...

California Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack has pulled her "bus tour" ad criticizing her Democratic opponent after business owners complained it tarnished the image of Palm Springs. The Republican's campaign ads were released online Aug. 30. The ad criticizing Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet featured an animated tour bus traveling through the Southern California desert resort city with a guide pointing out vacant store fronts, the closed-on-Fridays City Hall and an unemployment line.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), in Bogota on Saturday, called for the Obama administration to designate Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism. Mack was one of eight lawmakers in Colombia for the swearing in of the country's new president, Juan Manuel Santos. He met with departing President Alvaro Uribe and held a press conference in Bogota to detail his efforts to have Colombia's neighbor placed on the terror list. "I think the time is now to put him on that list," Mack told The Hill by phone from Colombia, saying that President Hugo Chavez supported the FARC rebels in Colombia...

In 1994, Sheriff Richard Mack filed a lawsuit challenging the Brady bill to stop the federal government from forcing another unfunded mandate. After winning that Supreme Court decision he was catapulted to national attention, with television appearances on the Donahue Show, Good Morning America, Crossfire, Nightline, and more. Here is a recent interview with national radio show host Alex Jones. Sheriff Mack is also a member of (Welcome to Oath Keepers) and the founder of NO SHERIFF LEFT BEHIND! Learn more at (Sheriff Mack)

Wall Street Read of the Week: "Bob Rubin Just Wants to Be Cuddled" By Max Abelson April 30, 2010 | 6:36 p.m Until today, the London Business School-educated Iris Mack was known as a Harvard Management Company whistle-blower. From now on she will be remembered for these extraordinary words about her affair with former Treasury Secretary and Citi executive Bob Rubin: "He got this funny look on his face, and asked: 'Do you want to go upstairs and...cuddle?' So that's what this is about... And not long afterward the former Treasury Secretary had his tongue down my throat and hands...

Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) says the Arizona immigration law does not represent the America he grew up in. Yesterday, Rep. Mack compared the law to the Gestapo in Nazi Germany.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazy Germany. "This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Charlie Crist's political mentor, former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack, resigned Thursday as Crist's campaign chairman in his race for the U.S. Senate. Mack wrote a terse, two-paragraph letter to his one-time protege that said Crist was wrong to veto a bill (SB 6) that would have made it easier to fire teachers and tie their pay to student test scores. "As you know, I strongly disagree with your veto," Mack wrote his fellow Republican. "Your veto I believe undermines our education system in Florida and the principles for which I have always stood." Mack went on...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Former Graham County, Ariz. Sheriff Richard Mack held a press conference Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Capitol addressing the issue of states’ rights and the growing 10th Amendment movement. Mack became well known in 1997 when he won a Supreme Court decision that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Brady Bill gun control law based on the 10th Amendment and the doctrine of Separation of Powers. “We were the only ones to sue Bill Clinton on a non-sexual matter,” Mack told the press corps. Author of The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope, Mack was joined by...

When Larry Summers was president of Harvard, a woman by the name of Iris Mack was fired from Harvard Capital Management. The problem with this? A month before she was fired she sent Summers an email warning him about the quality of the portfolio managers at HMC and also about the dangerous derivatives positions that HMC was taking on that ultimately resulted in huge losses for Harvard. {snip] The story of Summers' mismanagement of Harvard's finances appears to be a story that won't seem to die. Most recently showcased by Bloomberg. Now focus appears to be picking up on Mack,...

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack will run for re-election instead of the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Mel Martinez. Mack, whose father served two terms in the Senate, wrote to Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday saying he won't be a Senate candidate. Mack was among several Republicans considering the open seat. None have announced their candidacy while waiting to see if Crist seeks re-election or runs for Senate. Mack told Crist, "I will be your strongest supporter and champion - regardless of whether you seek re-election or election to the Senate."