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Associated PressApril 25, 2017

Sure enough, the big trans-Pacific trade deal is toast, climate change action is on the ropes and various regulations from the Obama era have been scrapped. It’s also a safe bet President Donald Trump hasn’t raced a bicycle since Jan. 20, keeping that vow. Add a Supreme Court justice — no small feat — and […]

Associated PressJanuary 19, 2017

In a last major act as president, Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes on Thursday, bringing his bid to correct what he’s called a systematic injustice to a climactic close. With his final offer of clemency, Obama brought his total number of commutations granted to 1,715, more […]

Mitch PerryDecember 7, 2016

“Image is everything” that great philosopher, Andre Agassi, once said in a series of television ads for Canon in the early 1990’s. Though a bit of an exaggeration, there’s no question that the image of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee has taken a significant body blow following its reorganization meeting on Monday night. To recap: Party Chair Ione Townsend concluded that the party’s by-laws […]

Mitch PerryDecember 6, 2016

Sarasota Congressman Vern Buchanan is urging President Obama in his last weeks in office not to pardon Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, saying the search for Bergdahl may have led to the deaths of several American soldiers. White House and Justice Department officials say Bergdahl has submitted the clemency request. If granted, it would allow him to avert a court-martial trial […]

Mitch PerryDecember 11, 2015

Since he began campaigning for president this year, one part of Donald Trump’s stump speech that has remained intact is when he attacks Bowe Bergdahl, calling him a traitor and saying he should be executed for deserting. “We’re tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who’s a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,’ Trump said in […]

Mitch PerryMay 21, 2015

Donald Trump has flirted with running a serious presidential campaign four times in the past 18 years -in 1988, when he was arguably at the zenith of his popularity as his Art of the Deal memoir topped the New York Times best-seller list, as well as 2000, 2004 and four years ago. So even though he says […]

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Donald Trump’s 100-days promises: Fewer than half carried out

Barack Obama commutes 330 drug sentences on last day as president

Mitch Perry Report for 12.7.16 – The Hillsborough County DEC melts down

Vern Buchanan doesn’t want Obama to pardon Bowe Berghdahl

Mitch Perry Report for 12.11.15 – Bowe Bergdahl speaks

In Sarasota, Donald Trump says the world is abusing the United States