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Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton is weighing in on Mosaic’s delay in informing the public about the spill of 215 million gallons of contaminated water into a sinkhole at their Polk County phosphate plant last month. In an interview with WFST-Channel 28’s Sarina Fazan, the Democratic presidential nominee is chiming in on the criticism regarding the phosphate giant’s failure to inform […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

Contrary to speculation, independent Joe Redner says he “absolutely” is not about to end his candidacy in the Hillsborough County state Senate District 18 race, declaring that “I’m just getting started.” The perennial candidate has usually ran as a Democrat in numerous local and state elections over the years, but he’s running as an independent this year, and […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump among Hispanics in Florida, 53 percent to 34 percent, according to a new survey by conducted the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative released on Thursday. The organization polled where Latinos stand in the presidential race in five key battleground states: in addition to Florida, Hispanic voters […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is the most latest Florida lawmaker calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate St. Petersburg’s sewage crisis. “It is important that residents know if their City leadership turned a blind eye towards the inevitability of a sewage spill at the cost of the local waterways and beaches,” Rubio writes in a […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

In Charlotte last night, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory called for a state of emergency a night after violence escalated as residents continued to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer a day prior. While in Tulsa, the Dept. of Justice is investigating officer Betty Shelby’s use of force in the shooting death of 40-year-old unarmed black […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

The U.S. House on Wednesday passed Sarasota Republican Vern Buchanan’s bipartisan legislation to aid Florida orange growers in their battle against the predatory citrus greening disease. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate for consideration. Buchanan’s Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act will make it less costly for growers to replace trees damaged by citrus greening, an incurable bacterial disease […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

Tallahassee U.S. Representative and potential gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is blasting the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, claiming it failed local citizens by failing to alert them of the massive leak of contaminated water that occurred through a sinkhole at Mosaic’s New Wales Facility in Polk County last month. The company did immediately inform the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection and other agencies, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

A day after an official with Mosaic Fertilizer expressed regret for sitting on information for weeks about contamination leaking into the Floridan Aquifer without informing the general public at their Mulberry site, an environmental group is attempting to connect Republican state Representative Dana Young to the phosphate giant. Polk County officials say 215 million gallons of radioactive water sitting […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

Tampa Bay-area Congresswoman Kathy Castor is the latest Democrat to sign on to bipartisan legislation that addresses skyrocketing prescription drug price increases. On Tuesday, the Tampa Representative announced she was co-sponsoring the FAIR Drug Pricing Act, would require manufacturers who increase the price of a drug by more than ten percent a year to disclose the information behind that decision […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

The New Yorker magazine has a story this week on what a President Donald J. Trump would do if elected in November. Writer Evan Osnos reports that Trump’s advisers are weighing several options for the “First Day Project” – where he would spend hours on inauguration day next January signing papers that “erases the Obama Presidency,” […]

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio/ Image via AP.

Hillary Clinton blasts Mosaic for delaying notifying residents about sinkhole spill

Joe Redner says he’s committed to winning Senate District 18 race

FAU poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump among Hispanics in Florida 53-34%

Marco Rubio latest lawmaker to call for the EPA to investigate St. Petersburg sewage issue

Mitch Perry Report for 9.22.16 – The fire down below

House passes Vern Buchanan’s bill to aid Florida orange farms in their battle against citrus greening

Gwen Graham wants to know why the DEP didn’t tell the public about Mosaic’s toxic sinkhole

Environmental group targets Dana Young in wake of Mosaic sinkhole incident

Kathy Castor signs on to bipartisan legislation calling for drug price transparency

Mitch Perry Report for 9.21.16 – Can Ban Ki-Moon get enough buy-in to deny a President Trump the opportunity to renounce the Paris agreement?