Rubio's book tour will take him through Florida and into battleground states

With Marco Rubio's autobiography, “An American Son,” to be released Tuesday, the U.S. senator and vp hopeful will spend the next few weeks promoting it -- in key battleground states.

The first event will take him to Philadelphia on Wednesday where he'll be featured in a live CBS Radio discussion at the National Constitution Center. The next stop is Florida, according to his book launch page, where he'll start in South Florida on June 30 and spend the next three days winding his way up the west coast and Central Florida and ending in the Panhandle. The promotional journey then takes him to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. 

Chances are sales will be heavier for this book than his first one, 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future. You can still get a copy of that compilation, now selling on Amazon from $6.97.

Here's the Florida book signing schedule:

Marco Rubio sounds ready to kill his DREAM (for now), blames Obama

Sen. Marco Rubio sounds ready to scuttle his version of a pro-immigrant DREAM Act this year, and he’s blaming President Obama.

For the past three months, Rubio has been trying to craft a bill that would give legal residency to young immigrants who were brought or remained in the United States illegally because of their parents.

But on Friday, Obama essentially turned Rubio’s undrafted proposal into an executive decision made by his administration. Rubio and other Republicans say Obama overstepped his bounds.

“When the president ignores the Congress, ignores the Constitution and forces a policy like this down the throat of the American people, it’s going to make it harder to have a conversation like that,” Rubio said. “It’s going to make it harder to elevate the debate.”

Voter groups will sue Florida over non-citizen 'purge'

A coalition of national voter advocacy groups will file a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to stop the state of Florida from "purging" the voter rolls of non-citizens. (Those efforts have been suspended by the 67 local election supervisors, and the state and U.S. government are separately in court, suing each other).

The Fair Elections Legal Network, Project Vote, LatinoJustice and the Advancement Project announced plans on Monday to sue Secretary of State Ken Detzner, claiming the effort to "systematically identif and remove alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls (is) in violation of the National Voter Registration Act." 

Josh Spaulding of the Fair Elections Legal Network said the lawsuit would be filed in U.S. District Court in Miami.

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Florida judge hears ‘birther’ challenge to President Obama’s re-election bid

The argument has been debunked and rejected many times, but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to file lawsuits disputing President Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve. A South Florida man is behind one of the latest challenge, asking that Obama be blocked from having his name listed on the Florida ballot this fall.

Plaintiff Michael Voeltz filed the suit in Leon County circuit court in February. His attorney, Larry Klayman, says he has evidence Obama wasn’t born in the United States and therefore is not a citizen eligible to serve as president. Even if he were born in Hawaii, Klayman said, the president isn’t a “natural born citizen” as required in the U.S. Constitution because his father wasn’t a citizen.

Gov. Rick Scott has been a critic of Obama, but his administration is siding with the president on this issue. Attorneys for Secretary of State Ken Detzner appeared at a hearing this morning alongside the president’s lawyers to argue for the case to be dismissed.

The suit is without standing because Obama won’t officially become the Democratic nominee for president until after the party’s convention in September, the defense argued. Right now he is simply a candidate, albeit one without opposition in primary, they said.

Is the GOP Senate primary over? Connie Mack says so

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV's strategy to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate is simple: ignore it.

"We have a 33-point lead," Mack said last week, explaining his decision to skip three televised GOP primary debates.

With a comfy lead, a highly recognizable family name and the support of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, Mack seems the far-and-away favorite to face off against Sen. Bill Nelson come November.

But some grass roots Republicans say it's too soon for Mack to declare himself the winner — especially if he won't make the customary rounds at debates and straw polls.

"It's an incredibly bad message to send to the voters in a primary," said Nancy McGowan, president of the Conservative Republican Forum of Jacksonville. "It just says, 'What you think doesn't matter.' "

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