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Mitch PerryDecember 16, 2015

With all the Republican candidates gathering at the Venetian in Las Vegas for the last GOP presidential debate in 2015, the question I ask you today is – will the Republican nominee be anyone other than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? Trump was his classic self last night, but finally had somebody take it to […]

Mitch PerryDecember 15, 2015

Over the years, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch have spent vast amounts of money on political advertising and campaign donations in recent years trying to get Republicans elected. In January, they promised through their political network to spend nearly $900 million on the 2016 election, after spending nearly $400 million during the 2012 campaign. Not so […]

Mitch PerryOctober 16, 2015

Marco Rubio gave his first major speech on energy policy Friday afternoon at BOC Water Hydraulics in Salem, Ohio, where he spent considerable time criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for overriding consumers and undercutting innovators, resulting in “fewer choices, fewer jobs, and higher prices for our people.” Speaking in the home of fellow GOP presidential […]

Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2015

Senate President Andy Gardiner says state legislators have to be careful not to make priorities out of “second-tier proposals” that don’t fully address the problems with a lack of health care coverage. “If you don’t have insurance, it doesn’t matter how many new programs you create, you’re still not going to have access,” he said Wednesday […]

Mitch PerryAugust 18, 2015

Four years ago, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was considered a strong challenger to Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination. Then the Iowa Straw Poll happened. Pawlenty fared poorly, and on August 11, 2011, he was stunningly out of the race. Flash forward four years later: Is Scott Walker this year’s version of Tim Pawlenty? Walker has […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 4, 2015

America’s doctors have long since made their peace with Medicare, which marked its 50th anniversary last week, but its oldest and most implacable enemy, the ideological right wing, is still bent on destroying it. If you were a politician who shared that purpose, how might you go about it? You’d harp on how the trust […]

Mitch PerryAugust 4, 2015

Fourteen Republican candidate for president met Monday night at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., last night. It was the equivalent of political speed-dating, (by the way, do those things happen anymore? I did it twice in the early aughts, and what I remember from the experience was how weary I was after standing up and moving to […]

Mitch PerryAugust 2, 2015

Marco Rubio said Sunday that the government should not be shut down this fall unless Planned Parenthood is defunded, but did say that he supports a proposal to take the federal money that currently goes to that organization and instead spend it on community health care clinics across the nation. “That’s a false choice,” Rubio said […]

Mitch PerryJuly 27, 2015

The issue of Medicare made its first big entrance in the 2015-2016 presidential campaign last week when Jeb Bush said at a Koch brothers event in New Hampshire that Congress should phase out the program. “We need to make sure we fulfill the commitment to people that have already received the benefits, that are receiving […]

Mitch PerryJuly 23, 2015

Democrats such as DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz are seizing on comments that Jeb Bush made Wednesday night regarding Medicare. Speaking at an Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire, Bush said brought up the government run health care program for seniors by first blasting television ads back in 2012 featuring a Paul Ryan-look-a-like pushing […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.16.15 — Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

FSU took in $626,247 from Charles Koch Foundation last year

In energy speech, Marco Rubio says he’ll “cripple” the regulatory power of all federal agencies

Andy Gardiner “wrong again” on health care, Americans for Prosperity says

Mitch Perry Report for 8.18.15 – It’s not going as planned for Scott Walker

Martin Dyckman: Right wing should stop its nonsense about Medicare

Mitch Perry Report for 8.4.15 — Political speed date dialing in Manchester

Marco Rubio won’t call for shutdown over Planned Parenthood

Kathy Castor latest Democrat to slam Jeb Bush on Medicare comment

Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls Jeb Bush comment’s on phasing out Medicare a “massive blunder”