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Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Bob Poe is releasing his first radio commercial in the Orlando market Wednesday using the recent tragic shootings in Orlando and Dallas, and of African-Americans, to tout his gun-control proposals in Florida’s 10th Congressional District race. Poe also is sending out his first mailer with the theme “To make a difference you have […]

Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016

A couple of recent, small and methodologically insignificant polls may be suggesting Democrat Valleri Crabtree‘s shoe-leather campaign for the nomination in the Kissimmee-based Florida’s 9th Congressional District could have an impact against her much-higher-profile and much-better-funded rivals. First, a straw poll at an Osceola Hispanic Democratic Caucus candidates’ event on Sunday had Crabtree finishing a […]

Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016

Orange County’s Maginot Line against development east of the Econlockhatchee River has fallen. The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Tuesday night to support two new developments, dubbed by county planners as Lake Pickett South and Lake Pickett North, that will allow thousands of new homes to be built east of the Econlockhatchee. The […]

Associated PressJuly 12, 2016

Ten protesters arrested for refusing to leave the lobby of an Orlando building where U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has an office have been released from jail. The protesters were released late Monday on $250 bond. They faced misdemeanor trespass charges after a sit-in commemorating the one-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Gunman Omar Mateen […]

Scott PowersJuly 12, 2016

Lockheed Martin plans to add 300 new jobs to a Titusville operation that helps prepare space payloads for launches, Gov. Rick Scott announced today during a trade summit to England. The jobs will add to the Space Coast economy’s transformation from supporting NASA missions out of Kennedy Space Center to supporting public and private missions […]

Bill RuftyJuly 12, 2016

Members of the Polk County Democratic Executive Committee waited anxiously through their two-hour meeting Monday night in Bartow for Dr. Dena Minning Grayson, a candidate for Florida’s 9th Congressional District. She never showed in what later was discovered to have been a miscommunication by the party leadership. But Valleri Crabtree of Kissimmee, the former Osceola Democratic […]

Peter SchorschJuly 12, 2016

More than 300 candidates are running for the 160 seats in the Florida House and Senate. And, try as we will, FloridaPolitics.com won’t be able to interview them all. So we are asking every candidate, including incumbents, to complete a questionnaire we believe offers an interesting, albeit, thumbnail sketch of who they are and why they […]

Scott PowersJuly 11, 2016

Update: Ten protesters were arrested for trespassing Monday evening after the building’s management announced it wanted to lock down the building for the night and clear everyone out and those protesters refused to go. All 10 were released early Monday morning after posting bail for misdemeanor charges. There was no violence. When ordered to go, […]

Scott PowersJuly 11, 2016

State Rep. Rene Plasencia got a warning sign Saturday night that his bid to return for another term in the Florida House from District 50 may be in jeopardy when he lost decidedly to challenger George Collins in a straw poll at the Brevard County Republican Executive Committee. “I’ve been working Brevard very hard. Most […]

Larry GriffinJuly 11, 2016

Rep. Linda Stewart, in her run for state senator, shared some ideas in a news release issued Monday on what to do about gun control in the wake of several recent shootings: more mental health provisions and reinstating the assault weapons ban. In her time in the Florida House, Stewart has been a staunch opponent […]

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Bob Poe radio commercial references Pulse, Dallas, shootings of blacks

Osceola Politics Facebook poll shows Valleri Crabtree may not be so unknown in CD 9 race

Orange County opens door to development east of Econ

Pulse protesters arrested at Marco Rubio’s office are out on bond

Lockheed Martin to add 300 Space Coast, Rick Scott announces

Valleri Crabtree ‘shows up’

Meet Amy Mercado, Democrat running for Florida House District 48

Arrests end sit-in protests over Marco Rubio’s post-Pulse policies

George Collins tops Rene Plasencia in Brevard straw poll

Linda Stewart calls for mental illness and gun control legislation