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Perspectives Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 your feedback Our Thoughts Watch the video T. Pat Cavanaugh is the publisher of The Rockdale News and The Covington News. He can be reached at [email protected] Once Again Florida Could Decide GOP Nomination Matt Towery Columnist Matt Towery is author of the book “Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight for the Presidency” and is the publisher of the Washingtonbased Southern Political Report. Follow him on Twitter: @ matttowery. In recent presidential election cycles, Florida’s primary has basically decided the Republican nomination. In 2008 John McCain received the endorsement of then-Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, and after winning the sunshine state’s primary, never looked back. Even more dramatically, Mitt Romney reversed what seemed to be a potentially fatal loss to Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary by besting the former speaker just days later in the Florida contest. The fight in 2016 for Florida’s rich number of delegates could once again bring an early and final decision in the race for the GOP nomination, especially if either former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio emerges as a frontrunner prior to the Florida vote. Should either of the two potential Floridian candidates choose not to run, the state would likely support the other as its favorite son. But what if Bush and Rubio both decide to compete for the nomination? That could make Florida a big problem for both men. At first blush and certainly in the eyes of most of the national media, Bush would be presumed a clear frontrunner in the state he once governed. But to underestimate Rubio could be a big mistake, given his defeat of a heavily favored Charlie Crist in Rubio’s first and winning bid for the U.S. Senate. For Bush there would be huge advantages to being dubbed the “Republican Establishment” candidate. For one thing, he could sap big money away from the likes of Mitt Romney. There is usually only enough cash available for one mainstream candidate by the time the primary season gets to the big, delegate-rich states. And with outside Read more Letter to the editor I have for so long boycotted Walmart—because of its history of mistreatment to the poor employees which they abuse with not only low wages, but bad working conditions. It is my understanding that they are raising the minimum wage in trying to gain approval of folks like me and possibly you. Today, I want to talk about the retail giant—Kroger. I have witnessed mistreatment of employees with not only their low pay, but also many other things such as: no help for a 25 year-old woman who ultimately died with cancer— with children. The employees did yard Read more Carol Nailen, Rockdale County