Emails & Opinions

Mitch PerryOctober 26, 2016

The announcement this week that premiums for “silver” health care plans in the state-based exchanges will rise by an average of 22 percent next year has received maximum news coverage, including by political reporters who think it could an “October surprise” that benefits the Republican Party. It is a gift to Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

Pols, pundits and other people in #TheProcess are busy plastering their social media accounts with paeans to the “skits” produced and performed by the stellar crew and cast at Saturday Night Live. So this is a good time to show our appreciation by resolving not to mention Lorne Michaels’ people in the same sentence with […]

Peter SchorschOctober 25, 2016

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Bal Harbour, a small Florida village of under 3,000 residents in Miami-Dade County, is home to Bal Harbour Shops, one of the most upscale and expensive shopping malls in the country. In March, we wrote The Bullying of a Small Town, an examination of the mall’s tactics of intimidation and harassment employed in pursuit of […]

Steve SchaleOctober 25, 2016

Dear friends and casual Twitter followers: It is Florida election memo time! I know you all are excited. Fourteen days left. If Jaguars fans can survive the Gus Bradley era, America can do 14 days of this. Also of note: 18 days until FSU basketball tips off. So here are some notes on the first […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

Living in a world that is out-of-touch with most Floridians, Congressman Patrick Murphy has consistently shown us why he is unfit for the job of congressman, much less the office of senator, a promotion he is currently seeking. Murphy has spent his life sheltered from the real difficulties Floridians face every day and has exaggerated […]

Peter SchorschOctober 25, 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 VOTE IS IN THE MAIL! Instead of the ballot box, more Florida voters are choosing the mailbox than in 2012. Analysis from Ryan Tyson, Associated Industries of Florida’s political guru, showed nearly […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2016

If you ask most Americans, they will tell you they can’t wait for this year’s presidential election to be over. The 2016 presidential campaign has been one with no decorum or class — a very dirty, vicious political race. It has exasperated an already overblown antipathy toward American politics and those who govern us. Americans […]

Tom JacksonOctober 25, 2016

Early voting has arrived in Florida, and with it the inevitable rush to the polls. Sigh. I can’t say I fault anyone who exercises the early option, particularly this year, when the choices at the top are so unrelentingly dismal. In 2016, voting early is sort of like ripping off a bandage. You know it’s […]

Mitch PerryOctober 25, 2016

Attention political junkies: not every voter pays attention to politics until right before the election, which is why that ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee “dramatizing” David Jolly standing with Donald Trump was so egregious. The ad — one of the most controversial of any produced this season in American politics — was immediately denounced by the Jolly campaign, who […]

Mitch PerryOctober 24, 2016

Although Donald Trump’s campaign manager admitted on Sunday that her candidate is trailing to Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, that wasn’t the sentiment of some of his 15,000 fans who filled the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater in Tampa Monday night. “I think he’s going to win in a landslide,” said Clearwater resident Joe Kotow, who said […]

Emails & Opinions

Mitch Perry Report for 10.26.16 — Can Donald Trump exploit ACA premium increases?

Florence Snyder: If you’re laughing, it was probably not a ‘skit’

Buying political influence in a small town in Florida

Steve Schale: Notes on the first day of early voting in Florida

Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Graves: Patrick Murphy — utter disrespect for women

Sunburn 10.25.16 — As early votes pour in, Donald Trump riles up Florida supporters

Steven Kurlander: 2016 election legacy — wishing it would end already

Tom Jackson: This year, especially, resist the early voting urge

Mitch Perry Report for 10.25.16 — DCCC ad linking Trump to Jolly goes away, but has the damage been done?

At Donald Trump rally in Tampa, supporters remain confident about his chances