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Peter SchorschJuly 9, 2016

Session is coming. Sure it is only July, and there hasn’t even been an election yet. But the tell-tale signs of a looming session — budget proposals and promises of legislation — are beginning to pop up. And while calls for a special session have been rebuffed, some of the issues in question could bubble up […]

Peter SchorschJuly 9, 2016

In a case of “he said, he said,” two Florida legislative candidates are running full speed away from the National Rifle Association. Here’s the back-and-forth. On Friday, Democrat Jim Waldman blasted Gary Farmer’s campaign for getting it wrong. In an email to supporters, Waldman wrote: “(A) political committee led by Gary Farmer is spreading lies about my […]

Peter SchorschJuly 9, 2016

The race for state Senate District 17 has turned into one of the most contentious of the primary election cycle as two Republican state representatives — Debbie Mayfield and Ritch Workman — exchange barbs with each other over an array of personal and policy differences. Both candidates hope to win a Republican-leaning state Senate seat that represents parts […]

Peter SchorschJuly 8, 2016

Of the many polarizing figures in northeast Florida politics, none are more so than two women: U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and State Attorney Angela Corey. Both have decades of respective tenure: Brown, almost a quarter-century in the United States Congress, with parts of Jacksonville making up the core of her occasionally-shifting district; Corey, elected State […]

Peter SchorschJuly 8, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, and Jim Rosica. THE STATE WE LIVE IN Florida’s big cities have the lowest-paying urban jobs in America, according to a recently-released federal survey. The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment data, for the year 2015, show […]

Peter SchorschJuly 7, 2016

Isn’t it fun to have new friends to play with? That’s how I felt when I learned Republican communications operative Brian Burgess was launching The Capitolist website where he (and other notables like Sarah Rumpf) blogs and aggregates. I’ve always been of the opinion that Florida politics needed more bloggers and tweeters and writers. At the national level, when the […]

Peter SchorschJuly 7, 2016

More than 300 candidates are running for the 160 seats in the Florida House and Senate. And, try as we will, FloridaPolitics.com won’t be able to interview them all. So we are asking every candidate, including incumbents, to complete a questionnaire we believe offers an interesting, albeit, thumbnail sketch of who they are and why […]

Peter SchorschJuly 7, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. THE BIGGEST DANGER FOR DONALD TRUMP: FLORIDA via Nate Cohn of The New York Times – If demographics are destiny, Trump’s political fate could very well be sealed in Florida … The big demographic […]

Peter SchorschJuly 6, 2016

There are more than 300 candidates running for the 160 seats in the Florida House and Senate. And, try as we will, FloridaPolitics.com won’t be able to interview all of them. So we are asking every candidate, including incumbents, to complete a questionnaire we believe offers an interesting, albeit thumbnail, sketch of who they are and […]

Peter SchorschJuly 6, 2016

Next week, several Republican members of the Florida Senate will gather at the summer home in Boothbay Harbor of their colleague Jack Latvala. There they will raise money for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee on Thursday and Latvala’s “Florida Leadership Committee” on Friday. With Latvala slated to be the next chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Appropriations, […]

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Sunburn for 7.07.16 – Will Florida be Donald Trump’s Waterloo?

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