Emails & Opinions

Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2016

Campaigns are the embodiment of barely controlled chaos. In conduct, and by nature, they are modern-day morality plays that feature candidates slugging it out for their political — and reputational — lives. Great theater, I suppose, but rest assured it’s the kind of mortal combat that leaves their campaign disciples reaching for Maalox, and the […]

Peter SchorschAugust 26, 2016

Brian Mast is one of the 12 candidates seeking Florida’s 18th Congressional District, currently held by Democrat Patrick Murphy, who is now running for U.S. Senate. The retired Army sergeant is one of only two candidates who had accepted money from the sugar industry. The other is Republican Rick Roth, an actual sugar farmer. According to […]

Peter SchorschAugust 26, 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. START YOUR MORNING WITH THE 10,000 MANIACS The color of the sky as far as I can see is gull gray … I lift my head from the pillow and then fall again […]

Mitch PerryAugust 26, 2016

Attention, Florida Democrats: Time to get off you a** if you want Hillary Clinton to win the state in November. A Mason-Dixon poll shows the Trump-Clinton battle in a virtual tie, with the former secretary of state up by two points, 44 percent to 42 percent. As has been said a thousand times, Trump cannot win […]

Peter SchorschAugust 25, 2016

In fantasy sports circles, attorney Daniel Wallach has become somewhat of an instant expert. Wallach, a shareholder with Becker & Poliakoff, repeatedly criticizes efforts to regulate daily fantasy sports, opining on pending legislation in Florida, Massachusetts, and New York. His rise to prominence on the subject received a major boost Oct. 8, 2015, when Wallach […]

Peter SchorschAugust 25, 2016

Could Scott Fuhrman, challenging Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, be this year’s Tim Mahoney? And is there a path for Fuhrman to become 2016’s “accidental” member of Congress that doesn’t involve Ros-Lehtinen having a Mark Foley-like implosion? Increasingly, the answer to both questions keeps inching toward “yes.” The Cook Political Report recently […]

Peter SchorschAugust 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. FORECASTERS PREDICAT INVEST 99L COULD TURN INTO TROPICAL STORM HERMINE, HIT FLORIDA via the Tampa Bay Times – The system … hung in the Atlantic 100 miles north of Puerto Rico on Wednesday evening. The […]

Diane RobertsAugust 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton is sick. Important white men-types, such as Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, and Donald Trump, say so. She sits down at some of her campaign appearances — ON A STOOL! Or with a PILLOW BEHIND HER BACK! Clearly, her spine is disintegrating before our very eyes. She has Parkinson’s. A blood clot. A brain […]

Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2016

The 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season could become very active soon if forecasters are correct. While the season has been fairly quiet so far, with just five named storms forming, NOAA recently increased its storm season prediction and is now calling for 12-17 named storms. So, as residents stock up on back-to-school supplies, it may be […]

Mitch PerryAugust 25, 2016

Donald Trump was in Tampa yesterday, in case you didn’t hear about it — and he continued to “reach out” to minority communities in his speech. Of course, saying, “I say to the African-American parent, you have a right to walk down the street in the inner city, without having your child or yourself shot” may not […]

Emails & Opinions

Adam Goodman: ‘We, the People’ — How to fix what Congress won’t

Brian Mast fudges promise to return sugar money, blasts opponent who calls him on it

Sunburn for 8.26.16 — 4 days until Florida’s primary election

Mitch Perry Report for 8.26.16 — Mason-Dixon says the presidential race in Florida is super close

Is Daniel Wallach’s ‘unnamed source’ in fantasy sports debate actually Alan Koslow?

Will Scott Fuhrman become the ‘accidental congressman?’

Sunburn for 8.25.16 — 5 days until Florida’s primary election

Diane Roberts: Donald Trump feels presidency is ‘man’s job’

Logan McFaddin: Peak hurricane season: Insurers say don’t wait

Mitch Perry Report for 8.25.16 — Is Donald Trump reversing himself on his signature issue of immigration?