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Mitch PerryJanuary 10, 2016

The deadline to sign up to to get on the Affordable Care Act in 2016 ends in three weeks, which is why Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell was in Tampa on Sunday. Burrell addressed the congregation at New Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood of Tampa, where she was joined […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 10, 2016

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Marco Rubio disparaged Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn on Sunday, calling all of the attention on his just published interview in Rolling Stone this weekend with famed Mexican drug lord El Chapo “grotesque.” El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, was captured on Friday in Mexico, six months after a daring prison escape last July through a […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 8, 2016

Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandy Murman, currently running for re-election to her District 1 seat this fall, acknowledged Friday she’s considering a run at the newly created state Senate District 18 seat. “I am looking at it,” the Davis Island Republican told Florida Politics late Friday afternoon. “I’m very happy on the County Commission. I love […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 8, 2016

The popular perception is that the Democratic Party as a whole stopped debating gun control after Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee and Bill Clinton‘s Arkansas in the 2000 election. Looking back on that perspective 16 years later, it’s evident that yes, they did stop debating the issue nationally, but that it doesn’t […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor has become just the latest member of Congress to blast the persistent problems with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Listing three major problems that have surfaced in the news recently, the lawmaker has penned a letter to VA Secretary Robert McDonald. She writes that “the VA has not met its responsibility to […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

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Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera announced Thursday morning endorsements from nine state House Republicans in his race for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. The list includes Dennis Baxley from Ocala, Halsey Besmears from Monticello, Matt Caldwell from Monticello, Brad Drake from DeFuniak Springs, Clay Ingram from Pensacola, MaryLynn Magar from Hobe Sound, Keith Perry from Gainesville, Elizabeth Porter from Lake City, and Jimmie T. Smith from Lecanto are all now backing Lopez-Cantera. “I […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

Is this the week the dam breaks between Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the base of the Democratic Party? This week a progressive organization called Roots Action said it had collected more than 23,000 signatures calling for the Democratic National Committee to remove Wasserman Schultz as its party chairwoman. Now in the […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

The Marco Rubio for President campaign has released a new television ad that will begin airing in Iowa this weekend. The ad, called, “Faith,” shows the Florida Senator explicitly refer to how his Christianity affects his daily life. “Our goal is eternity, the ability to live alongside our Creator for all time,” he begins in […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 7, 2016

James Tracy was fired last month, though the Florida Atlantic University communications professor still can file a grievance to maintain his job. Although he would certainly dispute being labeled a conspiracy theorist, that’s essentially how I learned about him when I wrote a story about conspiracy theories in Creative Loafing. Tracy claimed the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 6, 2016

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South Florida U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate Patrick Murphy says the sheer number of gun violence tragedies has created a shift in American public opinion on gun control. He also says if that sentiment continues, Congress will follow suit and no longer be intimidated by the National Rifle Association. “Quite frankly, the NRA is […]

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HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell visits Tampa to tout ACA

Marco Rubio calls Sean Penn’s interview with El Chapo “grotesque”

Sandy Murman thinking of running for state Senate

Mitch Perry Report for 1.8.16 — No, Obama still isn’t going to take away the guns

Kathy Castor tells VA Secretary latest problems “unacceptable”

Carlos Lopez-Cantera endorsed by 9 more state House Republicans

Another progressive group calls on Debbie Wasserman Schultz to quit DNC chair

Marco Rubio goes all in for evangelical voters with new ad to air in Iowa

Mitch Perry Report for 1.7.16 – Florida academic fired for unpopular (and um, questionable) views?

Patrick Murphy contends NRA feels changing shift on guns