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Scott PowersMay 21, 2016

Florida voters are dissatisfied with their political leaders and national candidates, and profoundly unhappy with Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, a new Gravis Marketing poll shows. The survey found Florida voters showing high dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama, presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. But Florida’s two former presidential candidates? Much worse. In the poll, Florida voters — […]

Larry GriffinMay 20, 2016

As an afternoon storm blew through downtown Orlando, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson addressed a group of reporters at his regional office Friday and called for more funding from the government to fight mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus that can come with such storms. The Zika virus has been spreading in a way Nelson and other worried officials call […]

Mitch PerryMay 20, 2016

Hours before he was scheduled to speak about military issues at an event at the Cuban Club in Ybor City on Friday night, the Democratic opposition group American Bridge 21st Century, is blasting the group sponsoring the event featuring GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ron DeSantis. The event is being produced by the Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 19, 2016

Republican Senate hopeful Ron DeSantis is applauding Donald Trump for his potential Supreme Court picks. On Wednesday, Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia died in February, creating a vacancy on the Supreme Court. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy, but […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 19, 2016

A hot-button topic in Northeast Florida this week was the Barack Obama administration asserting Title IX funding should be conditional on students being allowed to use the bathroom of their choice because of “gender identity” assertions. Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi have not weighed in on school bathrooms, but in Jacksonville for a stop on […]

Joe HendersonMay 18, 2016

Carlos Beruff is running the kind of campaign you would expect from someone looking to pick a fight at a bar. The Angry Man approach in his TV ads has certainly earned the Bradenton businessman name recognition as he seeks to win the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio, but that can work […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2016

A message to HUD slumlords, such as Global Ministries Foundation, which operates in Jacksonville: Marco Rubio is not done with you. In a floor speech Wednesday regarding H.R. 2577, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, Rubio reiterated his issues with HUD and its policies, which have led to institutional neglect around the country, describing four […]

Mitch PerryMay 18, 2016

The U.S. Senate advanced a $1.1 billion bill to help public officials battle the Zika virus Tuesday as it begins to threaten America. That’s $800 million less than the $1.9 billion that President Obama has been calling for since February, but it is more than the $622 million that the GOP-led House passed on Monday. Much […]

Darryl PaulsonMay 17, 2016

Candidates and political parties consistently pledge to the electorate they will either support or oppose a particular issue. For some candidates, the pledge is a signal of their support for a particular issue. For others, a pledge is a vehicle to win the support of the voters and political groups. Various political groups have drafted pledges […]

Jim RosicaMay 17, 2016

Jeff Greene‘s lawyer is berating the Tampa Bay Times over a story on its settlement of Greene’s libel suit against the newspaper. Greene, a Palm Beach billionaire, also is “demand(ing) that the Tampa Bay Times now disclose the amount publicly.” He sued the Times and the Miami Herald in 2010 but settled confidentially with both papers in […]

Tag: Marco Rubio

Poll finds Florida voters down on leaders, political choices, especially Marco Rubio

As summer arrives, Bill Nelson calls for more funding for mosquito control

Group sponsoring Ron DeSantis appearance in Tampa denounced for associations with the Koch Brothers

Ron DeSantis: ‘Donald Trump has released a list of outstanding jurists’

Carlos Lopez-Cantera calls feds’ school bathroom edict an “egregious overreach”

Carlos Beruff ‘Angry Man’ campaign always ready to pick a fight

Marco Rubio talks HUD reforms, Global Ministries Foundation in floor speech

Mitch Perry Report for 5.18.16 — D.C. Republicans at odds with each other on Zika funding

Darryl Paulson: Pitfalls of the political pledge

Jeff Greene’s lawyer calls out Tampa Bay Times