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Mitch PerryOctober 29, 2015

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s editorial on Wednesday that called on Marco Rubio to resign “and not rip us off” ignited a number of others to follow suit. It came as Rubio has continued to miss votes in the upper chamber of Congress while on the campaign trail and unapologetic about it. Instead, he’s indicated he […]

Ryan RayOctober 22, 2015

I am … 25 years young. I live in … Sarasota/Tallahassee. I got into politics because … My family exposed me to the power of community organizing as a child. My great-grandmother along with a group of other concerned citizens helped desegregate the public beaches in Sarasota in the 1950s by organizing caravans of people who went […]

Mitch PerryOctober 21, 2015

David Jolly got maximum exposure on Tuesday when he crashed Charlie Crist’s announcement in St. Petersburg where he was running for the CD 13 seat that Jolly is vacating, calling the former Florida Governor a “huckster” and ” a fraud.” Appearing on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Wednesday morning, Jolly showed no signs of ceasing his war of words […]

Ryan RayOctober 20, 2015

A months-long process of the U.S. Department of Agriculture transferring 3,800 acres of land to Florida A&M University came to an end Tuesday, as the nation’s largest historically black college formally took over the Hernando County tract. For more than 80 years, the site was home to the USDA’s Subtropical Agricultural and Research Station until it was […]

Ryan RayOctober 15, 2015

U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham performed one of her signature “Workdays” – a tradition she inherited from her father Bob Graham – participating in a controlled burn at the Apalachicola National Forest on Thursday. Graham, along with representatives from U.S. Forest Service and the Nature Conservancy, protected trees housing the endangered Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, ignited potentially dangerous underbrush, and extinguished a fire threatening […]

Ryan RayAugust 31, 2015

Justin Sayfie, publisher of the Sayfie Review, announced Monday internet search giant Google will help underwrite its upcoming Florida Leaders Summit confab in Orlando. Announcing the recently reorganized internet behemoth as a “Gulf Sponsor,” Sayfie wrote on his news aggregation site that “Google’s generous sponsorship will help provide all Summit attendees with an exceptional Summit experience.” Sayfie billed the […]

Ryan RayAugust 3, 2015

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A recent communique from the U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham camp takes a playful approach to making a serious point, possibly a decisive one, when it comes to Florida’s 2nd Congressional District. The freshman Democrat’s spokesman narrated their most recent campaign stop at the Wassau Possum Festival by way of Petey the Possum, a stuffed marsupial who […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 22, 2015

In late 1968, a book that would eventually called A Quiet Revolution was published. The first edition by Richard Martin, “Consolidation: Jacksonville-Duval County,” discussed the early days of consolidation and what led up to it. In 1993, a substantial update was made, providing the history of the quarter-century since the first book. From Hans Tanzler climbing the […]

Peter SchorschJuly 20, 2015

Former U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland is considering another run in Florida’s Second Congressional District, according to two sources close to the former north Florida Congressman. Southerland represented north central Florida in the U.S. House from 2011 to 2015 before an upset defeat at the hands of U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham sent him packing. Florida Politics first reported in March that […]

Mitch PerryJuly 8, 2015

Earlier this week Politico speculated that the Democrats have a “narrow” path to recapture the U.S. Senate next year, which appears to be a much friendlier year in terms of victories compared with 2014 (when they lost nine seats) or 2018, when they must defend seats in red states like Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia. One […]

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Gwen Graham lauds USDA 3,800-acre land transfer to FAMU

Gwen Graham prevents forest fires, does Workday at Apalachicola National Forest

Google to sponsor Sayfie Review’s Florida Leaders Summit

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NRSC “confident” GOP will keep Florida Senate seat in 2016