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Guest AuthorMay 15, 2016

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less,” said Humpty Dumpty in “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll. A perplexed Alice responded, “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” Politicians using language to mean many things is […]

Mitch PerryMay 13, 2016

Well, so much for that much-anticipated San Antonio-Golden State NBA Western Final. Congrats to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who took down the Spurs in six. Gotta love the unexpected. Today the Republican Party of Florida hosts the first of a two-day spring meeting in Tampa. I just realized the Republicans always hold these type of […]

Mitch PerryMay 12, 2016

So, Go Hillsborough is somehow still alive? Though they haven’t set a date yet, apparently there will be another public hearing on putting a sales tax referendum on the ballot this November. On Wednesday, the Hillsborough County Commission voted to support a half-cent sales tax for 15 years, and not the 30-year plan shot down […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

Citing polls conducted by Quinnipiac University which show Hillary Clinton in trouble in the swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio against Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders’ campaign came out swinging on Wednesday, declaring in a fundraising email that the Vermont senator is the best bet to ensure a Trump loss in the fall. “We cannot have […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

Tim Canova, the insurgent Democratic opponent to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Florida Congressional District 23 race, says he’s poised to officially post that he’s raised more than $1 million in his race to date. Canova raised more than $558,000 in the first three months of the year since announcing his candidacy […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

For the last week, the political news media has been obsessed with the likely Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton general election confrontation. Although he has been the front-runner throughout 2016, Trump’s big victory over Ted Cruz in Indiana last week prompted Cruz and John Kasich to quit the race, and by last Wednesday, Trump was your GOP […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 10, 2016

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Too close to call. With six months until the general election, that’s how a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday described the state of the race in three crucial swing states. In Florida, Hillary Clinton is essentially tied with Donald Trump, with 43 percent of Floridians supporting Clinton to compared to 42 percent backing Trump. Bernie […]

Guest AuthorMay 6, 2016

What a blessed relief. Presidential political junkies are down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, down to the Cinderella finalists and we can take the summer off. OK, I know Bernie Sanders is still hoofing the “I want to live in the White House” shuffle, but he’s not going to be at the top of […]

Scott PowersMay 6, 2016

A new comprehensive study on American views on foreign affairs finds to no surprise that Republicans are from Mars and Democrats from Venus, but also finds Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s supporters more isolationist than anyone. The survey, released Thursday by the Pew Research Center, finds that Democrats consider the nation’s biggest global fears to be climate […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2016

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On Saturday, Democrats from each of Florida’s 27 congressional districts will meet in congressional district caucuses to elect 135 district-level delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Later on, the district-level delegates will meet to select 27 Pledged Party Leader and Elected Official (PLEO) Delegates, 45 At-Large Delegates, and 17 At-Large Alternates to the […]

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Ed Moore: Where fantasy is fact

Mitch Perry Report for 5.13.16 – Friday 13th edition

Mitch Perry Report for 5.12.16 — The proposed tax that will not go away

Debbie Wasserman Schultz ‘not at all concerned’ about potential divisiveness at Philly DNC

Tim Canova’s fundraising totals rise to over $1 million in battle vs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Mitch Perry Report for 5.11.16 – Hillary’s weak close

Too close to call: Hillary Clinton at 43%, Donald Trump at 42% in Florida

Linda Cunningham: Ignore politics for a few months, enjoy the summer

Pew Research: Republicans, Democrats have starkly different foreign affairs priorities

Florida Democrats to choose delegates to convention this Saturday