Via the

AP.

Report: Fla. GOP Courts Joe Scarborough
55 minutes ago

Two local businessmen active in Republican Party politics say the GOP is
courting cable TV host Joe Scarborough to replace U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris 
in the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.

Scarborough, a former U.S. representative, has met with senior Republican
officials, Collier Merrill, a Pensacola businessman told the Pensacola News
Journal in a report for Wednesday’s editions.

The other businessman, Eric Nickelsen, said he had contacted Scarborough
and encouraged him to run, and he corroborated that other party leaders wanted
the cable talk show host to challenge Harris.

Scarborough declined to comment late Tuesday. He was sent to Congress four
times from the Pensacola area, beginning in 1994.

Some polls have shown Harris lagging behind Nelson. But Harris’s campaign
manager, Jim Dornan, said Harris has no plans to step out of the race.

Harris is best known for her role as Florida’s then-secretary of state
during the 2000 presidential recount.

Can you blame them? Katherine Harris has to be one of the biggest jokes we
have seen in politics in recent times. Her continued crying that they photoshop
her pictures are nothing compared to her actions when she appeared on Hannity
and Colmes, where she successfully came off as the jezebel of the Republican
Party.