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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 3, 2015

Last month, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry sent a letter to Jerry Abramson, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for President Barack Obama. The subject? A Jacksonville Transportation Authority TIGER Grant application related to the Northeast Florida Multimodal Transportation Corridors, which we reported on previously. The letter of support from Curry contends that “the project connects economically challenged neighborhoods to key […]

Associated PressSeptember 2, 2015

Approaching a time of decision, Vice President Joe Biden tested the political waters in Florida on Wednesday as he mulls over whether to join a 2016 presidential race that’s left a lot Democrats wanting more choice. Biden attended a fundraiser Wednesday night for Senate Democrats after a speech at Miami Dade College promoting the administration’s […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 2, 2015

On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown‘s office issued a prepared saying she backs President Obama’s proposed deal with Iran, controversial even among some Democrats, including those in Florida. “Having assessed the details and weighed the alternatives, I have concluded that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action represents our best, long-term option to prevent Iran […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 1, 2015

Like so many other Democrats who are coming out in support of the P+5 nuclear deal with Iraq, Delaware Senator Chris Coons said yesterday that while “it was a very hard choice,” he was going to back Barack Obama in the most important foreign policy accord of his presidency. “I will support this agreement because it […]

Associated PressSeptember 1, 2015

President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn’t dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in droves as conflict breaks out across the globe. It’s a harrowing image of a future that Obama insists is inevitable unless the world follows his […]

Mitch PerryAugust 30, 2015

Among those in attendance at the Republican Party of Florida’s summer quarterly meeting in Tampa was former Congressman and FBI special agent Mike Rogers, who spoke at a luncheon that featured Senate candidate Todd Wilcox. Rogers, who served in the 14 years in the House representing Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, was a regular on the Sunday morning […]

Mitch PerryAugust 29, 2015

The four Republican candidates attempting to succeed Marco Rubio as the next Senator from Florida convened together for the first time on Saturday morning in Tampa. The four men – Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Congressmen David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, and former military veteran and CIA officer Todd Wilcox – are so little known that […]

Associated PressAugust 29, 2015

Each Saturday morning, 78-year-old Gary Patton goes door-to-door in Hampton, N.H., to talk to his neighbors about Hillary Rodham Clinton. He starts with a friendly introduction to make sure people know he’s a local — not some out-of-towner who doesn’t understand New Hampshire. His wife, Lenore, runs an email blast for the Rockingham County Democrats […]

Mitch PerryAugust 28, 2015

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The perception that the youth vote has always belongs to the Democrats is not accurate, says GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. In 2000, she says, George W. Bush and Al Gore split the youth vote, as well as those voters older than 65. But that split certainly occurred in 2008 and even more so in 2012, when Barack […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2015

Let’s circle back to Jeb Bush’s National Urban League address from several weeks ago, because if a big, pointed word must be used, it is “symptomatic” of Republican racial complacency. (It’s best to exclude Ben Carson, because like all black Republicans from Allen West to Tim Scott, he momentarily forgets that he is black. Colorblindness […]

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Citing 1C1J, Lenny Curry pushes Obama White House on TIGER Grant

Joe Biden testing political waters in Florida

Corrine Brown backs President Barack Obama’s Iran deal

Mitch Perry Report for 9.2.15 – Obama getting closer to win on Iran deal

Barack Obama paints doomsday scene of global warming in Alaska

Former House Intel Chair calls Barack Obama’s foreign policy “an unmitigated disaster”

Four GOP U.S. Senate candidates make their cases at Florida GOP meeting in Tampa

“Super volunteers” power New Hampshire primary campaigns

GOP pollster schools RPOF on millennial generation’s priorities, how to win their vote

Chris Timmons: The GOP needs a new Nixon plan for blacks