Archive for May, 2008

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, held a fundraiser with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday night in Estero.Invitations went to former Southwest Florida backers of Romney’s presidential bid as well as Mack supporters. Mack spokesman Jeff Cohen said about 100 attended the event at the Embassy Suites hotel, which sought donations of at [...]

U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn) chairs the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which controls hundreds of billions of federal public works dollars.

He was in LaBelle this week to hear that some $500 million — some of it federal money — will be needed to build a 10,491-acre reservoir east of Fort Myers in Hendry [...]

Rep. Connie Mack broke from a conversation inside Collier County’s Emergency Operations Center to accept a red pen.

The pen, given to Mack, R-Fort Myers, by County Commissioner Frank Halas and Emergency Management Coordinator Jim von Rinteln, had a message that mirrored Mack’s comments for the day: “Get a plan.”

Mack visited the county building to hear [...]

The former Mass. governor shies away from vice presidency talk during Lee County fundraiser

Southwest Florida’s pick for the Republican presidential nominee made his return to Lee County on Thursday, and his trip was all about Washington politics.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ignited a fire for the November campaigns of presumptive presidential nominee John McCain and [...]

Lee County’s beaches and waterways could receive a chunk of the billions of dollars Congress could designate next year for road and environmental projects across America.

Elected officials who represent counties that stretch from one coast of South Florida to the other made pleas Wednesday in LaBelle to U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., who chairs the [...]