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Mitch PerryOctober 2, 2017

In the wake of nearly 200 NFL players deliberately refusing to stand during the “Star Spangled Banner” last weekend, conservatives are talking about hitting the league where it hurts — in its pocketbook. Sarasota-area Republican Vern Buchanan has sent out a survey to supporters asking them whether the league’s tax-exempt status should be revoked “in response […]

Mitch PerryOctober 2, 2017

Surterra Wellness, the Atlanta-based company with medical cannabis dispensaries in Tampa and Tallahassee, on Monday asked the state to let it begin offering edible products in Florida. Voters last year overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical cannabis, and lawmakers passed legislation in June to implement the amendment. That bill allows patients to use cannabis pills, […]

Mitch PerryOctober 1, 2017

Angry at the NFL players who refused to stand during the national anthem, about fifty people protested at a rally Sunday just blocks from Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, where the New York Giants faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . “My attitude is, if my flag offends you, then I’ll help you pack,” said Jim Heckman. “You […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 28, 2017

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There’s a serious logistics problem in Puerto Rico right now, and Marco Rubio says the only ones who can break through effectively is the U.S. military. Florida’s junior U.S. senator says that a significant number of containers are sitting at the Port of San Juan have not been transported to other parts of the island, because of a […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 28, 2017

As a registered nonprofit group, Save Southern Heritage can’t endorse candidates. However, they can provide “information” to voters, and the inference from the cards it’s mailed out to 3,000 households in House District 58 in eastern Hillsborough County indicates it likes the responses that Lawrence McClure gave the group, as opposed to Yvonne Fry, who […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 27, 2017

Saying it was good to be back in “Charlie Crist country,” Orlando attorney/entrepreneur/celebrity John Morgan made an entertaining appearance at the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. There, he discussed what he says is the very real possibility that he will pull the trigger next year and run for the Democratic nomination for governor. […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 27, 2017

Help is on the way to Florida’s citrus growers who have seen crops devastated by Hurricane Irma. That’s according to Sarasota Congressman Vern Buchanan, who says House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady assured him that his legislation — the Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act — will be part of the next hurricane relief package Congress will […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 26, 2017

Two weeks before the primary, the Republican race is becoming more intense between Yvonne Fry and Lawrence McClure for the House District 72 special election. In the past week, two mailers sent by outside groups blasting Fry have made their way into eastern Hillsborough County mailboxes. One came from the Orlando-based “Ax The Tax” political organization […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 26, 2017

Democrat Margaret Good qualified for the House District 72 special election Tuesday by submitting more than 400 petitions from local supporters. “I’m proud of the effort our team organized in a matter of days to garner the support of hundreds of voters from around the district,” said Good, a Sarasota-based attorney. “The response we’ve seen from voters […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 25, 2017

A day after dozens of NFL players kneeled in silent protest during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” U.S. Rep. Brian Mast weighed in with own hot take on the simmering controversy. “The NFL doles out penalties for celebrating a touchdown, but won’t require respect for our flag?” Mast wrote on Facebook Monday. Mast served in Afghanistan […]

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Vern Buchanan questions whether Congress should revoke NFL’s tax-exempt status

Grower asks state for edible cannabis rules

Dozens protest NFL players anthem-kneeling before Bucs vs. Giants game

Marco Rubio calls on Defense Department to ramp up Puerto Rico response

Pro-Confederate group heats up HD 58 race

John Morgan brings his “talking tour” to St. Pete

Vern Buchanan says aid for citrus growers will be part of new hurricane relief bill

Yvonne Fry blasted in HD 58 race for ‘insufficiently conservative’

Democrat Margaret Good qualifies by petition for HD 72 race

Brian Mast says any NFL player who takes a knee ‘should already be gone’