As the primary election reaches its zenith, we've got another reminder that the race in the 23rd may not be the battle it's made out to be.

Their Honors honor: More than half a dozen mayors representing cities in the congressional district of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, gave her their endorsement at a press conference yesterday in which they took turns taking pot shots at Wasserman Schultz's primary opponent, Tim Canova, the Sun Sentinel's Brian Ballou reports. For his part, Canova said he's been knocking on doors around the district and the mayoral support is just more insider politicians scratching each others' backs.

The guns and weed party: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson made his first Florida appearance yesterday in Miami, Sun Sentinel Editorial Board member Andrew Abramson reports. The eclectic crowd included the sort of political unicorns that drive pundits crazy. One guy voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 but supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. One couple voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, while one Republican supporter of Johnson was having a hard time with the candidate's smaller-military ideas, saying that he likes "going into countries, kicking ass and taking out dictators like Saddam Hussein." But the crowd cheered loudly when Johnson vowed to liberalize marijuana laws and when he promised to protect Second Amendment rights.

False advertising: The Broward County Commission may have a more contentious primary race (see: state Sen. Chris Smith v. incumbent commissioner Dale Holness), but the race between Nan Rich and Jim Norton is turning heads as well. The Sun Sentinel's Brittany Wallman notes that ads in support of Norton feature clips of the Weston city commissioner with a variety of local pols, many of whom are officially neutral in the race or have endorsed Rich. State law bans candidates from making false claims of support, but whether a video clip of Norton interacting with Rich-supporting politicians rises to that level is a gray area.

Republicans serve Irv: When state Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, jumped into a primary race against sitting state Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, Clemens said it was at the behest of Republicans, a claim Slosberg denied. And until recently, there was no evidence to support the claim. But I've unearthed payments from Slosberg to a recently formed LLC backed by Republican operatives, which subsequently bought television advertising time for the Slosberg campaign. Slosberg says that political consultants work for anybody, and he doesn't check voter registrations. However, most political consultants are more partisan than the candidates they help elect. And the consultants in this case have billed the Republican Party of Florida millions of dollars over the years while billing the Florida Democratic Party nothing at all.

Speaking of the Florida Democratic Party, in the wake of these ad buys, the party has started purchasing air time for Clemens. Check out the whole murky tale in my story.

You may have heard of Treasure Coast Newspapers' newest columnist: Yesterday, TCPalm published a guest column by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the slimy, smelly algae crisis. The Gannett-owned chain covers Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties, where the algae has been at its worst. The chain offered space to Donald Trump as well but received no response from the campaign. (This is not unusual. I have emailed the Trump campaign on multiple occasions and never received a response.) The Clinton column excoriates Gov. Rick Scott for his handling of water policy in the state, but doesn't do a lot to say what Clinton will do differently as president, other than to say that she'll "double our efforts to restore the Everglades and protect clean water." Still, there are lots of facts and figures on just how important an issue clean water is not only for our state, but the nation as well.

Shocking transparency: Visit Florida, the state's public-private partnership that promotes tourism has been picked apart in the media for refusing to release details of contracts it signs, saying the taxpayer money it gives to people like Pitbull is a trade secret protected by public records law. So it's with pleasant surprise that we learn Visit Florida shelled out $1.25 million to Jacksonville Jaguars owner (and Gov. Rick Scott backer) Shad Khan to apply "Visit Florida" logos to the jerseys of the London-based Fulham Football Club, another team owned by Khan. Visit Florida announced the details of the deal with Khan's permission. Why drop all that cash over in Jolly Ol' England?

"Would I do it if the U.K. wasn't my top international origin market? No, I certainly wouldn't," Visit Florida Chief Marketing Officer Paul Phipps told the News Service of Florida's Jim Turner. "But they are, and I need them and I need more of them. They stay longer. If I lose a Brit, I need like four domestic visitors."

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