Representative Allen West News

Thousands of Virginia Republicans on Saturday picked a slate of statewide candidates who vowed to stay true to conservative principles, resisting calls to remake the GOP message after losses in 2012.

I guess we can assume that Florida Governor Rick Scott won't be appointing Mr. West as lieutenant governor? From the Rock Hill Herald , about the conservative Republican : "FOX News Channel has hired former U.S. Representative Allen West as a contributor, announced Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming for the network.

West will offer political commentary across various daytime and primetime programs.

If his political career is a guidepost, the outspoken Florida Republican is likely to give viewers and analysts a lot to talk about.

Heading into the 2014 election, the Florida Republican Party will play up the state's congressional races as central to GOP efforts to prevent House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi from regaining the Speaker's gavel.

U.S. President Barack Obama departs after delivering a statement from the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.

A little more than a year after the DCCC backed former Greene County State's Attorney Matt Goetten in the Democratic primary over Bloomington physician David Gill only to see Goetten lose by 163 votes, they're back at it.

The Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday announced a campaign to build its congressional strategy around keeping the House in Republican hands, and Nancy Pelosi from returning to the Speaker's chair.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri says his office has busted a ring that was using teenage girls for prostitution.

Oh man, liberals' heads would explode! From the liberal Huffington Post, about the conservative Republican : "Florida Gov.

This weekend, after back-to-back revelations about Benghazi and the IRS, the public sentiment to impeach President Obama began to drift toward the Republican mainstream, with Sens.

Grassroots Republican candidates who want to run in the primary for Florida's Congressional District 18 say they are being told to stay out of the race by the new chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.

Former Congressman Allen West on Sunday said that an admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had improperly scrutinized tea party groups was part of a wider conspiracy that included President Barack Obama's administration forcing Republican-owned car dealerships to be shut down during the auto bailout in 2009.

You just knew they would go there. It was inevitable. And of course, the wingnutratti love it ! Below the fold.

My name is Nicholas Buford. I'm a 19-year-old black Republican from Georgia. I currently attend Valdosta State University, where I have just wrapped up my freshman year, attempting to major in political science.

The notion is alluring. Online fundraising has made it easy to collect large sums in small increments from thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

Relatives of Navy SEALs who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan in August 2011 spoke at a press conference Thursday to condemn the Obama administration and claim that the U.S. military presented a Muslim cleric at the dead SEALs' funeral who disparaged "sinners and infidels who are fodder for the hell fire." FreedomWatch ... (more)

Patrick Murphy won his U.S. House seat last November by fewer than 2,000 votes. As he prepares to seek a second term, the Florida Democrat has boosted his fundraising to try to win re-election by a wider margin.

Murphy narrowly defeated now-former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., last year. West has ruled out a comeback bid, but Abby Livingston reports on a litany of potential candidates in this week's Farm Team column : Former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, who lost to now-Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., in the 22nd District last cycle.

This past weekend, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson made the statement that Sen.