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Mitch PerrySeptember 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton will make campaign appearances Friday in St. Lucie and Broward Counties, the Clinton campaign announced Sunday. Specific details on where and when the events will be held have not yet been announced. While the Democratic nominee campaign in South Florida Friday, her other half, former President Bill Clinton, will be all over North Florida, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016

A day after St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman called on Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark to open a polling place for early voting in south St. Petersburg, Charlie Crist echoed that call on Saturday. “As Florida’s Governor, I signed an executive order to expand early voting hours, to ensure as many people can participate in the electoral process as possible,” […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016

While Hillary Clinton is hunkering down this weekend in preparation for Monday night’s massive debate against Donald Trump, her running mate will hit the hustings in Miami on Sunday night, and has now added appearances on Lakeland and Sarasota to his itinerary for Monday. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine will speak at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday at Miami […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016

The U.S. Presidential election returns to Florida’s I-4 corridor early next week, with Donald Trump speaking at a rally at Orlando Melbourne International Airport on Tuesday at 7 p.m.. The GOP presidential nominee’s appearance will come less than 24 hours after he and Hillary Clinton engage in the first of their three scheduled debates before the November 8 election. The trip is another occasion […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016

With his twice-weekly forum on The New York Times Op-Ed page, along with weekly gigs on NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks is regarded as one of the pre-eminent political pundits in the country. So when I had the opportunity to speak with him about an hour-and-a-half before his scheduled appearance at the Palladium […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2016

Gwen Graham isn’t backing off in her quest to learn how proactive the Florida Department of Environmental Protection was in informing the public about the 45-foot-wide, 300-foot deep sinkhole which opened at Mosaic’s New Wales plant in Mulberry on August 27, emptying 215 million gallons of contaminated water into the Floridan Aquifer. The Tallahassee-based Congresswoman on Friday issued a public information […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2016

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Two Florida unions are attacking Marco Rubio about his priorities in a new television ad that begins airing Friday in Tampa and Orlando. AFSCME PEOPLE and AFT Solidarity have gone in on the $1.3 million ad buy, which will run through the end of the month. “What are Marco Rubio’s priorities?” a narrator says as the ad […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2016

Welcome to the first full day of fall, Florida style. Now maybe it will actually start to feel like a different season in say, about a month from now? Speaking of the weather, good luck to the student-athletes at USF and Florida State University who will be playing in the excessively hot and humid conditions […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

Although Tim Canova came up short in his insurgent effort to topple Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Florida District 23 Democratic Primary last month, the Nova Southeastern law professor isn’t dropping out of the public sphere. On Thursday he announced the creation of a new small-donor based grassroots political and community action group that he says […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

A recent poll showed that Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy has some work to do to build up his name recognition amongst Florida’s Latino voters. A recent Univision News survey showed that 6 in 10 Hispanic voters don’t know who he is. In an attempt to change that equation, the Murphy camp announced on Thursday that they have hired Freddy […]

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio/ Image via AP.

Hillary Clinton to make two stops in South Florida Friday

Charlie Crist calls for Deborah Clark to open an early voting polling station in South St. Pete

Tim Kaine to campaign in Lakeland on Monday

Donald Trump to return to Central Florida less than 24 hours after Monday night’s debate

David Brooks on Donald Trump voters, Colin Kaepernick and growing loss of connection in U.S.

Gwen Graham wants a simple answer: When did the Florida DEP inform residents of the Mosaic spill?

Florida unions team up to blast Marco Rubio’s priorities in new ad airing in Tampa and Orlando

Mitch Perry Report for 9.23.16 – Fall follies

Tim Canova creates new political action group

Patrick Murphy hires Barack Obama’s 2008 Hispanic media manager to aid his campaign