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Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2016

Florida’s Gulf Coast has been contending with serious red tide issues over the last month, and Vern Buchanan says he wants Congress to address the issue before the end of the year. “Red tide is a clear and visible threat to the Suncoast’s environment and economy,” the Sarasota Republican said in a statement Thursday. “The […]

Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2016

Conservative commentator Chris Ingram has penned his last column for the Tampa Bay Times. Ingram announced on his Irreverent View blog that his most recent submission to the paper — a sharply worded takedown of Hillary Clinton’s behavior in relation to Bill Clinton’s checkered sexual history — was rejected by the Times’ editor of editorials, Tim Nickens, earlier this month. Nickens informed Ingram the piece “does not fit in tone or […]

Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2016

Donald Trump enjoyed mocking Hillary Clinton earlier this week for all the time she’s taken off the campaign trail recently, but with all three debates now history, it’s clear she knew exactly she was doing — working to be totally prepared for these debates. I know folks like to lower the bar considerably when grading how well […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott named Bennett Barrow to the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority. The 36-year-old Barrow is vice president of Barrow Asset Management. He received his bachelor’s degree in 2002 from Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee. Barrow has worked in Madrid, Spain, and Santiago, Chile, as a pension reform analyst for a public policy institute. He […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

Stressing the importance of Floridians voting in the presidential election, President Obama called into Tampa local hip-hop radio station 95.7 The Beat in Tampa on Wednesday afternoon. “Your vote matters,” he told DJ Anjali “Queen B” in a nine-minute conversation. “And if we’re going to protect and build on the progress we made in the last eight years I need everybody […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

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President Barack Obama has cut a television commercial for Congressional District 13 candidate Charlie Crist, in which he says the people of Pinellas County “have an opportunity this year to elect a public servant who always put the people first.” “As governor, he worked with both parties to get things done,” the president adds in the commercial, as the visuals […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

Critics of Amendment 1 on next month’s ballot in Florida teed off on the sponsors of that measure on Wednesday, following an explosive report in the Miami Herald quoting a policy director with the James Madison Institute as saying the utility industry is trying to deceive voters into supporting restrictions on solar power by supporting the amendment. […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

Marco Rubio‘s re-election campaign brought him to a 13o-year-old cigar factory in Tampa Wednesday, where he blasted proposed federal rules which could severely harm it and other cigar manufacturers in the U.S. A recent FDA ruling initially intended to regulate smokeless tobacco products, but summarily expanded to include cigars, would compel manufacturers like the J.C. Newman Company to go through a rigorous […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

Chris Wallace has been laying low over the past week, bypassing his normal turn as host of Fox News Sunday as he prepared to host tonight’s final presidential debate from the Thomas & Mack Center on the University of Las Vegas campus (though a photo of his mug continues to be prominently featured on virtually every Fox […]

Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

Eight years ago, comedian Chris Rock cracked jokes in East Tampa on the Saturday before the election to drive out voters to support Barack Obama three days later. This time around, rocker Jon Bon Jovi will be performing in Tampa, trying to entice voters to the polls to vote for Hillary Clinton. The Clinton campaign announced Tuesday the New Jersey […]

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Vern Buchanan wants Congress to address Sarasota and Manatee’s red tide problem

After spiked column, Chris Ingram quits writing for Tampa Bay Times

Mitch Perry Report for 10.20.16 — #Badhombres

Bennett Barrow named to Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority

President Obama calls into Tampa hip-hop station to urge Floridians to vote

Barack Obama cuts an ad for Charlie Crist in CD 13 race

Solar power advocates blast ‘deceptive strategy’ behind Amendment 1

Marco Rubio decries new FDA cigar regulations while visiting Tampa factory

Mitch Perry Report for 10.19.16 — Will Chris Wallace find debate fodder in WikiLeaks?

Jon Bon Jovi to hold Tampa GOTV event for Hillary Clinton Tampa Nov. 5