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Peter SchorschNovember 13, 2016

Donald Trump named Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus his White House chief of staff, elevating one of his loyal GOP advisers with a deep expertise of the Washington establishment Trump has vowed to shake up. Priebus, a close ally of House Speaker Paul Ryan, called the appointment “an honor” and predicted the billionaire “will be a great president […]

Mitch PerryAugust 22, 2016

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is perennially one of the strongest financial supporters of Republicans around the country. The group spent more than $35 million in the 2014 midterms, and has already spent more than $1.9 million on behalf of embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, more than a million for Arizona Sen. John McCain, and $1.5 million in ads against […]

Mitch PerryJuly 26, 2016

When David Jolly introduced his legislation that would prohibit federal lawmaker from directly soliciting political contributions, he cited New York Democrat Steve Israel’s admonition that he had spent roughly 4,200 hours on the phone asking people for money while in office as evidence of how gratuitous lawmakers are called on to dial for dollars. But Israel isn’t […]

Phil AmmannMay 31, 2016

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

Mary Jo MeloneMay 26, 2016

Like Donald Trump’s narcissism, the misogyny driving the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton is bottomless. The best that can be said of the legions of her critics is that some, women among them, don’t know history. Worse yet, few who are puzzled by the vitriol directed at Clinton bother to see her through the lens […]

Mitch PerryMay 10, 2016

Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly will get another national platform to discuss his legislation that would ban federally elected officials from asking for campaign contributions when he speaks at the National Press Club next Monday. Jolly’s STOP Act faces long odds of passage through Congress, however. He has been able to gain only eight co-sponsors in […]

Mitch PerryMay 2, 2016

Since declaring his candidacy for his first run for Congress in late 2013, David Jolly had to hear from his critics that he’s a creature of the Washington Establishment. Jolly spent 11 years working with Congressman Bill Young, the last six as his general counsel. In 2007, he left to join the Washington, D.C. firm Van Scoyoc Associates as a lobbyist. […]

Mitch PerryMay 2, 2016

The imagery coming out of California late last week wasn’t extremely alarming, but it was instructive. Protestors, many of them black or brown, went a bit nuts at Donald Trump campaign appearances Thursday night in Orange County on Thursday night and to a lesser extent on Friday in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco (and […]

Mitch PerryApril 29, 2016

David Jolly is at war with a part of his own party. The National Republican Campaign Committee is pushing back hard on that “60 Minutes” piece that aired Sunday featuring the Pinellas County congressman, and specifically his legislation that would ban federal office holders from raising campaign contributions. In a letter penned by NRCC Executive Director Rob Simms to […]

Mitch PerryApril 25, 2016

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David Jolly says that he asked Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson that if they co-sponsored his legislation banning federal officeholders from directly soliciting campaign contributions, he would have been content if they continued to fundraise, even possibly against him this fall. “I took the pledge in January. I no longer directly solicit money,” the Pinellas County GOP Congressman and Senate candidate […]

Tag: 60 Minutes

Donald Trump names Reince Priebus White House chief of staff

U.S. Chamber of Commerce holding off supporting David Jolly … for now

Steve Israel blasts David Jolly’s STOP Act

Meet Josh Johnson, Democrat running for Florida House District 9

Mary Jo Melone: Hillary Clinton, without apology

David Jolly to discuss his Stop Act at National Press Club next week

Todd Wilcox blasts David Jolly on calling for lobbying ban — even though he said it nearly a year ago

Mitch Perry Report for 5.2.16 — Cleveland, meet California

David Jolly refutes charges of lying in 60 Minutes story about fundraising requirement

David Jolly says ideally he’d like to ban all TV political advertising