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Mitch PerryJune 26, 2017

Rick Scott heads to Washington D.C. this week, ostensibly to meet with members of the Florida GOP congressional delegation regarding the health care bill unveiled last Thursday by Senate Republicans. What Scott thinks of the bill, or what changes he believes are warranted, remains a mystery. “I want to thank President Trump; he’s absolutely committed […]

Mitch PerryJune 26, 2017

In the wake of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff‘s four-point lost to Republican Karen Handel in last week’s special election, there has been much hand-wringing among Democrats desperate to show that they’re building momentum going into the 2018 midterms. Ossoff’s loss was the fourth special election to go to the Republicans in the first six months of the Trump […]

Mitch PerryJune 26, 2017

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is disputing the line being parroted by Trump administration officials that the GOP Senate health care bill won’t cut Medicaid costs by hundreds of billions of dollars. “That’s untrue, because they propose to cut about $850 billion out of Medicaid over the next decade, and you simply cannot cut that far without […]

Mitch PerryJune 24, 2017

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When setting out a game plan to become elected governor of the third largest state in the nation, it’s probably not in the playbook for a political candidate to get into a shouting match with a news reporter in front of other members of the press. But that’s Philip Levine. Last month, the Miami Beach […]

Mitch PerryJune 24, 2017

Last week, North Florida Republican Ted Yoho co-signed a letter — along with 22 of his Republican colleagues — calling on Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to review the agency’s ‘Housing First’ policy. The lawmakers claim Housing First puts a tough strain on homeless shelters in Florida and across the nation. GOP lawmakers say […]

Mitch PerryJune 23, 2017

The Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida is backing Miami businesswoman Annette Taddeo in the Senate District 40 special election, saying she will be a “progressive champion” who will represent the interests of everyday Floridians in the Florida Legislature. “DPCF’s endorsement questionnaire covers a wide variety of topics, including charter and voucher school accountability, gun safety, […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2017

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Upon the first review of what Republican Senators euphemistically call the “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” Kathy Castor says it’s “worse” than the much-derided “American Health Care Act” passed earlier this year by the GOP House. What most upsets the Democratic congresswoman from Tampa is that the bill “radically” restructures Medicaid. “This is a dramatic overhaul of […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2017

“Confederate monument in Tampa will stay put” was the headline by a published on CNN’s website on Wednesday, shortly after the Hillsborough County Commission voted 4-3 to keep a statue of a Confederate soldier in front of the annex of the county courthouse located in downtown Tampa. “Officials in Tampa decide not to move Civil […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2017

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The House Financial Services Committee passed the bipartisan “Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act,” one of five flood insurance related bills the committee advanced Wednesday. Polk County Republican Dennis Ross and Tampa Democrat Kathy Castor are sponsors of the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act, which now goes to the full House for consideration. The lawmakers say […]

Mitch PerryJune 21, 2017

Equality Florida is accusing Gov. Rick Scott of breaking a promise made last year to the organization that he would issue an executive order protecting LGBTQ state employees from discrimination in hiring and contracting. Now the Florida Democratic Party is piling on. On June 28, 2016, just 16 days after the deadly attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub […]

Mitch Perry

Rick Scott heads to D.C. to lobby for ‘Florida interests’ in health care bill, avoids specifics

Kathy Castor on Nancy Pelosi: No time to discuss a change of leadership

Kathy Castor says Trump administration is using alternative facts to explain Medicaid cuts in Senate health care bill

Philip Levine says his authenticity is a quality voters want from their leaders

Ted Yoho gets pushback for challenging HUD’s ‘Housing First’ policy

Democratic Progressive Caucus endorses Annette Taddeo in SD 40 special election

Kathy Castor calls Senate health care proposal ‘even worse’ than House bill

Bob Buckhorn: It was Hillsborough, not Tampa, which voted to keep Confederate monument

House Committee unanimously OKs flood insurance bill sponsored by Kathy Castor, Dennis Ross

Fla. Dems, Equality Florida say Rick Scott ‘broke promise’ to protect LGBTQ employees