Peter Schorsch

Peter SchorschAugust 25, 2017
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Former President Barack Obama is throwing his support behind St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman. Obama’s rare intervention in a Florida nonpartisan municipal race is an effort to boost Democratic turnout days before a primary that will likely force a runoff in November. In the late summer contest, Kriseman’s support has wavered among African-Americans, a group […]

Peter SchorschAugust 24, 2017
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Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics.  First Shot We almost forgot to wish a happy birthday to Kim McDougal, Gov. Rick Scott’s former chief of staff, and now GrayRobinson’s Senior Director of Government Affairs. McDougal’s been busy lining up clients, according to lobbying registration records, with an emphasis […]

Peter SchorschAugust 23, 2017
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Republican state Rep. Bryan Avila earned some praise from Americans for Prosperity-Florida for sponsoring a bill to kill Sunshine State stadium deals. The conservative group called the Florida Sports Development Fund, an incentive program greenlighted by lawmakers in 2014, “corporate welfare” and lauded Avila’s HB 6005, filed Tuesday, for attempting to repeal the “sports incentive […]

Peter SchorschAugust 23, 2017
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Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt announced Wednesday that Alabamian Trey Glenn has been tapped as the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regional administrator in the Southeast. “Trey Glenn will bring invaluable experience as regional administrator having spent over two decades working in the field of environmental and regulatory policy,” Pruitt said. “Mr. Glenn will help […]


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