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Mitch PerryFebruary 29, 2016

A day before the biggest day of the 2016 presidential election cycle, Donald Trump‘s lead nationally in the GOP presidential race is at an all-time high. A CNN-ORC poll released on Monday has Trump at 49 percent support. Marco Rubio is a distant second with 16 percent. Ted Cruz is third with 15 percent. Ben […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 29, 2016

I was delighted to read online in the middle of the night that “Spotlight,” the Tom McCarthy directed film about the Boston Globe’s investigations into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards last night. I read about it, because I wasn’t staying up past midnight to find out […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 26, 2016

In an attempt to staunch the heroin epidemic, Sarasota-area U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan said Friday he’s co-sponsoring legislation aimed at curbing the flow of drugs into the U.S. while intensifying education, prevention and treatment programs. In thepast decade, heroin abuse has skyrocketed in the U.S. The rate of heroin-related overdose deaths increased 286 percent between 2002 and 2013. […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 26, 2016

Florida Democrats aren’t feeling the Bern. At least not in significant numbers, as a Quinnipiac poll out Friday shows Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders in the Florida Democratic Primary, 59 percent to 33 percent. Women back Clinton 69-24 percent, while men go 47 percent for Sanders and 43 percent for Clinton. Clinton is doing well […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 26, 2016

Although many pundits are pontificating that Marco Rubio‘s pummeling of Donald Trump in Thursday night’s CNN/Telemundo/Salem Radio debate from Houston was entertaining, they still contend that it’s not going to matter on Super Tuesday or the subsequent elections to follow. We’re not so certain about that. If anything, Rubio’s “kitchen sink” opposition research dump against the New York City […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2016

Sarasota resident Edward James III is blasting HD 72 incumbent Ray Pilon regarding his vote in support of maintaining a Confederate statue, becoming the second Democratic challenger to hit a Republican on the issue in as many days. On Wednesday, Pilon voted in the minority in the Florida House of Representatives regarding a proposal to remove and replace a statue […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2016

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The FBI’s director Thursday dismissed concern that forcing Apple to hack an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists could allow access to other owners’ cellphones. “The code the judge has directed Apple to write works only on this one phone, and so the idea of it getting out in the wild and […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2016

The Florida House of Representatives voted 83-32 Wednesday to replace a statue of Confederate Army Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. The move began last summer after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took down the Confederate flag from its State House grounds. Haley’s move occurred after a white gunman killed nine black churchgoers in […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2016

(UPDATED) Ron DeSantis isn’t exactly greeting the latest entrant into the Republican Party U.S. Senate race, Carlos Beruff, with open arms. Beruff, a Manatee County developer expected to officially announce his candidacy next week, has ties to Charlie Crist, and you better believe that will be used against him in this primary contest. DeSantis, the Ponte […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 2016

In a year where it’s all about Republicans proving how much they hate Washington, candidates in Florida’s Senate race are amping up their game to show their disdain for the current political culture. While David Jolly has been getting mileage about his proposal to ban members of Congress from fundraising on the job, Todd Wilcox is upping the ante, […]

Mitch Perry

Donald Trump at 49% nationwide among GOP voters in new CNN/ORC poll

Mitch Perry Report for 2.29.16 – #OscarsSoLong

Vern Buchanan co-sponsoring legislation to deal with heroin crisis

Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 59-33 in Florida in Quinnipiac poll

Mitch Perry Report for 2.26.16 — New survey shows Florida Dems aren’t feeling the Bern

Ed James blasts Ray Pilon on Confederate Statue vote

Bill Nelson calls on Apple, FBI to cooperate on iPhone encryption issue

Rena Frazier calls Ross Spano’s support of Confederate statue “shameful”

Ron DeSantis derides Carlos Beruff as “Charlie Crist Republican”

Senate hopeful Todd Wilcox calls for term limits, no pension for Congress