Check out our Jane Musgrave’s account of how Wednesday’s planned Forum Club of the Palm Beaches Senate candidate debate between independent Gov. Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek came unglued late this afternoon.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians and Allied Crafts had announced plans to picket the event because of a long-running dispute with the Kravis Center. But the union, which has endorsed Meek, apparently didn’t want to deny its favored candidate a key opportunity to face off against Crist, the former Republican who now threatens to take away significant Democratic support from the Democratic nominee.

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On today’s Palm Beach Post letters page, state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, rips the labor-backed Employee Free Choice Act while local AFL-CIO President Pat Emmert rips Hasner.