When you have to raise so much money to win an election, sometimes it's easy to let excess campaign contributions slide. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) will have to pay about $100,000 in fines for receiving more than $313,000 in excessive campaign contributions in his 2004 election bid.

CNN is reporting that Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) might be new Republican National Committee chair. Can't they pick someone without a connection to Jack Abramoff or a brewing campaign finance scandal? More below.

Here's an unnoticed (so far?) item from Bob Ney's pleading document passed along by a tip.

The Daily Kos reports a DeLay connection on the now infamous Schiavo memo--the one that the GOP has vehemently denied any authorship.Turns out Sen. Mel Martinez's (R-FL) Chief Legal Counsel, Brian Darling, has admitted to authoring the memo. ...