Emails & Opinions

Mitch PerryJuly 22, 2016

(UPDATE: Hillary Clinton chose Tim Kaine to be her VP nominee. That occurred shortly after this post was originally written). Hillary Clinton did not name her running mate at a rally in Tampa on Friday afternoon. Although that nonevent was probably the most newsworthy part of her campaign appearance late Friday afternoon at the Florida State Fairgrounds, […]

Diane RobertsJuly 22, 2016

China is stealing our brains. Europeans are laughing at us. Mexicans are pouring over our open borders to drive down your wages and rape your children. ISIL bombers disguised as Syrian refugee children will soon be living on your block. Muslims are shooting up discos. Democrats are coming to take your guns. It’s Midnight in […]

Mitch PerryJuly 22, 2016

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Justin Grabelle is going up with his first television ad in his campaign to win Florida’s 11th Congressional District. The 34-year-old former chief-of-staff to outgoing CD 11 incumbent Rich Nugent is in an extremely competitive Republican primary campaign against Daniel Webster. Webster currently represents Florida’s 10th Congressional District, but opted to run in CD 11 once redistricting made his […]

Guest AuthorJuly 22, 2016

School’s out for the summer and, for many Florida families, that means trips to our pristine beaches and world-class attractions. For some Florida youth, it also means finding that perfect summer job. For teenagers, college students and other young people, a summer job gives them the opportunity to earn some money and learn important job […]

Peter SchorschJuly 22, 2016

From the start, Wayne Harris, a Republican running for Matt Gaetz’s House District 4 seat, has strutted his conservative credentials. A recent mailer to voters in HD 4 even boasts Harris as an “Emerald Coast tax cutter.” But after a closer look, it becomes increasingly difficult to describe Harris in those terms, especially compared to the […]

Joe HendersonJuly 22, 2016

It was a dark and stormy night … That oft-mocked opening to novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 work “Paul Clifford” — hey, no plagiarizing here; I give credit — seems to have inspired Donald Trump’s downbeat vision of America today. Shining city on a hill? More like Dracula’s castle at the bottom of a deep ravine. What Trump was […]

Peter SchorschJuly 22, 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. DONALD TRUMP DELIVERS A STEMWINDER Donald Trump has accepted the Republican nomination for president, promising anxious Americans that they will be safer and richer if he is elected in November. Trump painted […]

Mitch PerryJuly 22, 2016

One of the great ironies of the 2016 Republican presidential race is how the cult of personality surrounding their nominee is probably the deciding factor in why Donald Trump is their candidate for president. In 2008 and ever since, conservatives decried a similar cult that was built around Barack Obama. Remember the John McCain campaign calling him (in a way […]

Joe HendersonJuly 21, 2016

The safe play for Ted Cruz would have been to simply give Donald Trump a less-than-tepid endorsement as the Republican standard bearer for president. Party bosses and worker bees alike would have praised him for uniting Republicans in their holy war against Hillary Clinton. Even more, Cruz would have been ideally positioned to be the […]

Peter SchorschJuly 21, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Lloyd Dunkelberger and Jim Rosica. THIS TWEET (FROM THE AUTHOR OF 9 BOOKS ON PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY) SAYS IT ALL: @BeschlossDC: Never seen anything quite like this. RNC BOOS TED CRUZ, WHILE MIKE PENCE TRIES TO UNITE CONVENTION […]

Emails & Opinions
Cape Coral 7-Eleven after Milton. Image via AP.

Hillary Clinton ridicules Donald Trump’s “dark and divisive division” in Tampa speech

Diane Roberts: With Donald Trump, it’s Midnight in America

Justin Grabelle puts his first TV ad up in CD 11 race

Carol Dover: Florida’s summer job

HD 4 hopeful Wayne Harris might call himself ‘tax cutter,’ but he is anything but

Joe Henderson: Making America afraid again

Sunburn for 7.22.16 – Donald Trump delivers an ol’ fashioned stemwinder

Mitch Perry Report for 7.22.16 — Donald Trump, your humble servant

Joe Henderson: No surprise Ted Cruz chose not to play it safe

Sunburn for 7.21.16 – A grand Cruz delivers a vintage speech; plus a dozen campaign videos and now gifs!