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Peter SchorschOctober 4, 2015

A voicemail left for the staff of FloridaPolitics.com is from a Central Florida woman asking for guidance on how she might vote for Republican U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster for Speaker of the Florida House. Here is the message transcribed: “This is Donna Bartlett calling. My phone number is 407-497-4591. I’m looking online trying to find out […]

Peter SchorschOctober 3, 2015

A new IBD/TIPP Poll shows Ben Carson leading the GOP presidential race with 24 percent, followed by Donald Trump at 17 percent, Marco Rubio at 11 percent, Carly Fiorina at 9 percent and Jeb Bush at 8 percent.

Peter SchorschOctober 3, 2015

President Bush rebuked Jeb Bush after the Republican presidential candidate shrugged off any need for government action in the wake of the massacre at a community college in Oregon, The New York Times reports. Said Obama: “The American people should hear that and make their own judgments based on the fact that every couple of months, we have a […]

Peter SchorschOctober 2, 2015

A group of environmentalist political activists – “diverse,” to say the least – continued their conference at the Hyatt Regency in Miami on Wednesday. Continuing subsidies for solar and defeating the Koch Brothers were common themes center stage at a panel entitled “Solar Energy in Florida.” The panel, which included former Vice President Al Gore, Sierra Club leader Tom […]

Peter SchorschOctober 2, 2015

John Keats called autumn the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” Which is true. But autumn is also the season when conservatives seem to ramp up the crazy. Maybe college football gets them so riled up they can’t handle reality. Or maybe it’s the semi-annual almost-not-quite-government-shutdown. That certainly impels U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz into a […]

Peter SchorschOctober 1, 2015

Imagine you are a well-heeled, card-carrying member of Florida’s Republican establishment. It’s already a difficult election cycle with your having to choose between supporting Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio for president. Now, because of Jeff Atwater, your election cycle just became even more difficult. After FloridaPoltics.com first reported that the Florida Chamber of Commerce has poll numbers showing […]

Peter SchorschOctober 1, 2015

Imagine you are a well-heeled, card-carrying member of Florida’s Republican establishment. It’s already a difficult election cycle with your having to choose between supporting Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio for president. Now, because of Jeff Atwater, your election cycle just became even more difficult. After FloridaPoltics.com first reported that the Florida Chamber of Commerce has poll numbers showing […]

Peter SchorschOctober 1, 2015

Citing “mountains” of air quality data and public health records, representatives from South Florida’s public health field and the sugar industry on Wednesday struck back against opponents of cane burning, an industry practice that sugarcane growers deem necessary to bringing the crop to market in Florida. Judy Sanchez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Sugar, referenced legal threats made by organizations […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 30, 2015

For years, readers of our content have had to endure my incessant complaints about the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald “re-reporting” news which originally broke via one of our platforms. Re-reporting is on a rung lower than news aggregating (which Extensive Enterprises Media and so many other news organizations feely do) because it offers neither attribution […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 30, 2015

Donna Shalala, a former cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton and president and CEO of the Clinton Foundation, has suffered a stroke. Clinton and his daughter Chelsea Clinton issued a statement saying the 74-year-old Shalala was stricken Tuesday evening following a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s spinoff organization which seeks solutions to […]

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An actual voicemail message I received which should warm U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster’s heart

New poll shows Ben Carson moving into national lead

President Obama blasts Jeb Bush for ‘stuff happens’ comment

At Miami climate summit, Al Gore and Debbie Dooley make strange political bedfellows

Diane Roberts: The season when conservatives ramp up the crazy

Peter Schorsch: Jeff Atwater’s ‘to run or not to run’ peeves the Florida Republican establishment

Did Jeff Atwater just hand a U.S. Senate seat to Florida Democrats?

Sugar industry leaders mark start of harvest season with defense of cane burning

Why isn’t the Miami Herald & News Service of Florida re-reporting this story?

Former Clinton cabinet secretary/UM president Donna Shalala suffers stroke