Mitch Perry, Author at Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Mitch PerryJune 29, 2016

Perhaps it was the recent survey that showed St. Petersburg state Rep. Darryl Rouson leading Ed Narain in the Senate District 19 race that has fired him up. In any case, Narain is firing back hard on his Democratic challenger, along with some help from his friend, Congresswoman Kathy Castor. Narain and Castor took issue Wednesday with a statement Rouson had released regarding the U.S. Supreme […]

Mitch PerryJune 29, 2016

Perhaps the first thing to know about the three candidates vying to become the next state representative of House District 68 in Pinellas County is that none of them awoke on New Year’s Day this year with the dream of winning this seat. Republican JB Bensmihen spent most of 2015 preparing to run against Democrat Lois Frankel in Florida’s 22nd […]

Mitch PerryJune 29, 2016

Two-and-a-half years into his mayoralty, voters in St. Petersburg are strongly supportive of Rick Kriseman. Yet a new poll suggests his re-election isn’t guaranteed, especially if former Mayor Rick Baker challenges him in 2017. A St. Pete Polls survey conducted Tuesday of 600 registered voters in the ‘Burg shows that Baker gets 37 percent support, […]

Mitch PerryJune 29, 2016

For those of you who were looking for a smoking gun that would nail Hillary Clinton from Trey Gowdy‘s Select Committee on Benghazi’s two-year investigation, you might be out of luck. At least that’s the consensus from reporters who (presumably) read all 800-pages of that committee’s report which was released to the public yesterday. I didn’t […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

A June online poll of Floridians by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute shows Floridians supporting two different alternative energy proposals that they’ll get the chance to vote for, one in August, and another in November. This fall, Floridians will vote on Amendment One, the controversial solar power initiative that grants Florida residents the right to own […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

Marco Rubio is no longer running for president, but he’s still using some of the same lines of attack against Hillary Clinton as he resumes his run for Senate. Early Tuesday, House Republicans concluded their two-year investigation into the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya with an 800-page report that blames politically motivated bureaucratic delays for failing to […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

As dozens of injured people were being sent to Orlando hospitals in the immediate aftermath of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, thousands in Central Florida and throughout the state immediately went to give blood to those fighting for their lives. However, some survivors of the shooting were prohibited from donating blood to their friends who were shot because […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

Carlos Beruff, the last man standing between Marco Rubio being renominated by the Republican Party of Florida to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, gets crushed by the GOP incumbent in a poll conducted last week. A survey by Gainesville-based GOP polling firm Data Targeting, done on the day before and the day of Rubio’s announcement last week […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

Screen-Shot-2016-06-28-at-8.32.20-AM.png

(UPDATE) That investigative report by CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede on Democratic Senate candidate Patrick Murphy’s business background continues to enjoy added life in the form of a new television commercial produced by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The ad, entitled, “A Career Built on Lies,” relies heavily on DeFede’s report, which reported Murphy has never been a licensed CPA in […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

After enduring his worst week as a candidate since declaring he was running for the Senate over a year ago, Jupiter Rep. Patrick Murphy has received a nice boost in his campaign to succeed Marco Rubio in Washington, procuring the endorsement of the Florida Police Benevolent Association. “The Florida PBA is proud to endorse Patrick Murphy because […]

Mitch Perry
Multiple solar panels, pollution-free green energy base.

Ed Narain and Kathy Castor call out Darryl Rouson — again

House District 68 candidates show little difference on the issues in Tiger Bay forum

New poll shows Rick Kriseman is popular, but could lose to Rick Baker in 2017

Mitch Perry Report for 6.29.16 – Clinton survives Trey Gowdy, now what about James Comey?

Poll shows solar power amendment backed by utilities gets 77% support from Floridians

Marco Rubio attacks Hillary Clinton after reviewing GOP Benghazi report

Alan Grayson pushes for repeal on limit on when gay, bisexual men can donate blood

Carlos Beruff trailing badly to Marco Rubio, 73%-6%, according to new poll

NRSC attacks ‘Privileged Patrick’ Murphy in new television ad to air in Washington D.C.

Patrick Murphy gets endorsed by the Florida Police Benevolent Association