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The Doors Want Apology, Not Pardon, for Jim Morrison

The surviving members of the Doors are unimpressed with a posthumous pardon that was recently granted in Florida to their late frontman, Jim Morrison. They think the state owes him a formal apology. "We don't feel Jim needs to be pardoned for anything," the surviving band members, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby...

This Is the End for Jim Morrison's Nudity Case

(Dec. 9) -- The story begins in 1969, on an exceptionally hot night in an overcrowded concert hall in Miami. An exceptionally drunk Jim Morrison, slurring and screaming, stops singing "Touch Me," and what happens next destroys the Doors' meteoric career. Forty years later, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has successfully...

Charlie Crist to Get His Long-Awaited Pardon of Jim Morrison

(Dec. 8) -- He broke on through. Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has secured enough votes on the state's Executive Clemency Board to ensure that Jim Morrison, the former lead singer of seminal '60s rock group the Doors, will receive a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction. Crist secured the second...

Charlie Crist Moves Ahead With Jim Morrison Pardon

(Nov. 16) -- Strange days. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist today used one of his final days in office to address what he considers a glaring wrong in his state's history: the arrest and trial of the Doors lead singer Jim Morrison on obscenity charges. "I've decided that today," Mr. Crist told The New York Times. "I've...

Strange Days: Fla. Governor May Pardon Jim Morrison

(Nov. 8) -- The music is just about over for Gov. Charlie Crist, but he may have one more noteworthy task left before leaving office: a pardon of fellow Floridian Jim Morrison for indecent exposure charges during a concert 41 years ago. "Candidly, it's something that I haven't given a lot of thought to, but it's something...

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George LeMieux: I'm No Charlie Crist

Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.), known as the political mastermind behind former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, is trying to distance himself from the unpopular former governor as he campaigns to return to the Senate.

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05/23/12 LeMieux Used Bare-Knuckled Politics to Win Senate... Source: The Ledger - Lakeland FL Gov. Charlie Crist's.
How LeMieux pulled it off â tapped to serve a vacant Senate seat in 2009 by a governor who had reservations about his former chief of staff â speaks volumes about LeMieux's ambition, savvy and knack for bare-knuckle politics that's again playing out as he campaigns to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.
"He really wanted to do it. So he was going to do everything he could," former Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp said.
05/21/12 Mack calls for investigation of LeMieux's appointment... Source: TBO.com - Tampa Bay FL Connie Mack IV's U.S. Senate campaign has sent letters seeking a federal investigation of the 2009 appointment of his Republican primary opponent, George LeMieux, to the Senate by former Gov. Charlie Crist.
05/20/12 Scott looking past '12 election to '14 re-election Source: Daily Comet - Thibodaux LA The state Republican Party is buying television ads to promote Scott's policy successes in hopes of reversing voters' negative impressions.
05/19/12 Romney says banking reform hurting housing market in... Source: Jackson County Floridan - Marianna FL More than four in 10 Florida homeowners are underwater on their mortgages.
05/19/12 Two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson has... Source: The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson showed some signs of being a candidate for reelection last week - but he was prodded by President Obama's evolution on gay marriage and an outside group's TV ad rather than by the feuding Republicans who are seeking his seat.