Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschNovember 4, 2016

With four days before The. Most. Important. Election. Ever. comes to its conclusion, it’s difficult to separate the signal from the noise when it comes to polling and predictions. Right now, everyone is as much an expert about politics as they are in theories about how “Game of Thrones” will end. So many people are […]

Peter SchorschNovember 4, 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. LET’S START WITH A QUICK SHOT & CHASER SHOT: CHASER: NOW, LET’S THROW OUT THERE THREE HOT RUMORS #1 – Debra Henley is exiting the Florida Justice Association, three different sources tell FloridaPolitics.com, […]

Mitch PerryNovember 4, 2016

It was the Thursday night before the 2000 general election when Fox News’s Carl Cameron reported George W. Bush had been arrested in 1976 in Maine on a DWI case. It was definitely an “October surprise,” and it definitely seemed to stop Bush’s momentum in that contest — a contest in which he ultimately lost the […]

Peter SchorschNovember 3, 2016

Clearwater Republican Sen. Jack Latvala and incoming Senate President Joe Negron buried the hatchet long ago and, according to the most recent numbers from Latvala’s political committee, the two are very much playing on the same team. On Nov. 2, the Florida Leadership Committee, which served as Latvala’s war chest during the race for the Senate presidency, put $300,000 into the Florida […]

Florence SnyderNovember 3, 2016

Library patrons in North Tallahassee are competing this week for parking spaces with throngs of early voters. Signs in the makeshift precinct warn partisans and press people where, exactly, the “solicitation boundary” lies. For Florida First Amendment junkies, the signs are a melancholy hat tip to attorney Steve Carta, who died of cancer in September. The longtime […]

Peter SchorschNovember 3, 2016

The Tampa Bay Times posted a timely story yesterday by Steve Bousquet about election-time misinformation. In the piece, “Rumors, myths, and half-truths cloud Florida’s election,” Bousquet muses, “Whatever it is, people in Florida seem more suspicious than ever about the election.” The irony is that reporting by the Times, or at least some of its brethren, aren’t helping […]

Peter SchorschNovember 3, 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. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of the great statesmen of Florida politics, my friend — and in some ways a mentor — Senator Jack Latvala. KEY RACE IN FOCUS – FLORIDA’S 18TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT […]

Mitch PerryNovember 3, 2016

In Florida, we have two constitutional amendments on the ballot that will be decided next Tuesday. The way it looks now, it would be a major upset if Amendment 2, the medical marijuana initiative, fails to get 60 percent of the electorate’s vote. Then again, conventional wisdom was that it would pass in 2014, and it […]

Florence SnyderNovember 2, 2016

Jeff Zucker is past due for a Lifetime #FloridaMan Achievement Award. Zucker, the big cheese at Childish News Network (CNN), made news himself this week when he trashed “commentator” and Democratic political operative Donna Brazile as “unethical” for her “disgusting”-ness in passing presidential debate questions to her cronies in the Hillary Clinton camp. Zucker, as […]

Peter SchorschNovember 2, 2016

Consider the eye-grabbing Tampa Bay Times’ front-page headline Wednesday: $43M spent to limit solar. Beyond the silliness of assuming that every dollar utilities donated this cycle is part of a plot to fight rooftop solar — as if there is nothing else they care about — the story is screwed up six ways to Sunday. If a politician were […]

Emails & Opinions

The smartest guy in the room thinks Hillary Clinton will win Florida

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 11.04.16

Mitch Perry Report for 11.4.16 — What will be this year’s decisive October surprise?

Money flow shows teamwork between former rivals Jack Latvala, Joe Negron

In memory of Steve Carta, reporter’s lawyer

Even after bungled math mea culpa, Times/Herald still offering inaccurate information about solar amendment

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 11.3.16

Mitch Perry Report for 11.3.16 — Guns, pot, minimum wage measures to be voted on next week across the country

Florida Man Jeff Zucker embarrasses Florida. Again.

Tampa Bay Times’ mind-boggling figures in ‘rooftop solar fight’ don’t add up