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Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

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As the deadline to register in the November election was set to end Tuesday afternoon, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) announced they had registered more than 50,000 eligible voters in the Sunshine State, many of them new citizens who became naturalized to get the opportunity to vote this fall. With Latinos making up 18 […]

Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

One of the most unexpected moments of Monday night’s Senate debate between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy was when Rubio said Murphy posted a photo on Facebook four years ago showing him groping a woman. “That’s inappropriate behavior!” he charged at Murphy, who appeared startled by the reference. On Tuesday, Murphy dismissed the allegation. “When Donald Trump goes low, Marco Rubio goes […]

Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

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Senate District 18 Republican Dana Young’s latest television ad promotes her work on school choice. The 30-second, called “My Children,” features an African-American mom praising Young for helping her out when she learned she was zoned for a school she didn’t want her kids to attend. “My children are my life,” says the mother. “So when they were […]

Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

Amy Schumer isn’t the only major comic whose liberal schtick ended up alienating some Tampa residents who coughed up big money for a night’s entertainment. In 2003 Bill Maher gave an eviscerating takedown of George W. Bush at the Straz Theatre (still known then simply as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center). It was just months […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

In the aftermath of published reports about questionable decisions made by Hillsborough County Public Transportation Executive Director Kyle Cockream over the past year, Tampa state Rep. Dana Young is calling for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to conduct an investigation into the agency. “When the line is blurred between the regulator and the entities they regulate, the […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

Retired General Stanley McChrystal said if the Islamic State could be effectively blown away tomorrow, the world’s problems in the Middle East would not be immediately solved. “There’s a temptation today to simplify things,” the retired Army general told a crowd of several hundred people who gathered to hear him speak at the Tampa Waterside Marriott Monday […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

Emergency room physician Jim Davison leads in a new poll of the Tampa City Council District 7 race, but the majority of those surveyed say they aren’t sure who they will be voting for yet in the Nov. 8 election. The survey comes from St.Pete Polls, an automatic robocall pollster, which interviewed 402 voters in the district from Oct. 14 […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

Floridians will get their first chance to observe Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy in the same room together when they engage in their first debate of Florida’s U.S. Senate contest in Orlando tonight. Trailing by an average of around five percentage points through all of the polling, Murphy needs to have a big performance in him […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee boasted this weekend that David Jolly‘s campaign “lied and it backfired” regarding his camp’s announcement Friday that a local television station had pulled a controversial ad that uses doctored photos of Jolly with Donald Trump. “Jolly’s bizarre strategy to solely object to dramatized pictures in a DCCC ad depicting a potential “President Trump” working with a […]

Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2016

Another poll of Florida’s U.S. Senate race shows Republican incumbent Marco Rubio with a solid lead over Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy. The Public Policy Polls survey released Friday afternoon shows Rubio leading Murphy, 44 percent to 38 percent. Libertarian candidate Paul Stanton gets 6 percent. Removing Stanton from the list of available choices doesn’t improve things much for Murphy. In […]

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La Raza says they’ve registered more than 50,000 Latino voters in Florida

Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio goes low in bringing up photo with former girlfriend

Dana Young promotes her work on school choice in new TV ad in SD 18 race

Mitch Perry Report for 10.18.16 — Amy Schumer not the 1st libe

Dana Young calls for FDLE investigation into Hillsborough County PTC

In Tampa, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says ISIS is a symptom, not the Middle East problem

New poll shows Jim Davison leading Tampa City Council District 7 race

Mitch Perry Report for 10.17.16 — Will recent experience play a factor in tonight’s U.S. Senate debate?

DCCC says David Jolly ‘lied and it backfired’ about Donald Trump ad

Marco Rubio up over Patrick Murphy, 44%-38%, latest survey from PPP polling shows