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A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago. Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Image via AP/Teresa Crawford.

Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016
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Orlando

Val Demings raises big money but Bob Poe lends his campaign another half-million in CD 10

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In the brutal Democratic primary for Florida’s Congressional District 10, Val Demings raised nearly $300,000 in the second quarter of 2016, but rival Bob Poe countered by lending another $500,000 to his campaign. Poe is burning money fast with television commercials and a large, paid ground staff, and reported spending almost $1.4 million in the three […]
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Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016
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Orlando

Val Demings wins endorsement of Collective PAC

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Democratic congressional candidate Val Demings has won the endorsement of the Collective PAC, which supports African-American candidates committed to the black community, in her quest to win election in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. “Chief Val Demings represents everything that the Collective PAC stands for,” Quentin James, executive director of the Collective PAC, stated in a news release issued by […]
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Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016
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Orlando

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

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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 […]
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Scott PowersJuly 8, 2016
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Orlando

Cornell West endorses Fatima Rita Fahmy in CD 10 race

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National progressive civil rights leader Cornell West has endorsed Fatima Rita Fahmy in Florida’s Orlando-based Congressional District 10 race, her campaign announced Friday. West made the endorsement at the Democratic National Committee’s platform meeting in Orlando. West, a professor of philosophy and Christian practice, is also known for his firebrand Democratic socialist politics, and was […]
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Scott PowersJuly 7, 2016
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Orlando

Policing takes center stage at Democrats’ CD 10 debate

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Four Democrats running for Congress in the Orlando-based 10th Congressional District shared plenty of outrage, yet disagreed on key points when pressed in a debate Thursday night about the two recent police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota. (The deadly police shootings in Dallas occurred after the debate.) Several questions about law enforcement, inspired by the fatal shootings the […]
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Scott PowersJuly 6, 2016
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Orlando

Orange County DEC hosting CD 10 debate in Orlando

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The four Democrats running in Florida’s 10th Congressional District will have their second debate in two weeks Thursday night. The Orange County Democratic Executive Committee announced Wednesday that former police chief Val Demings, businessman Bob Poe, state Sen. Geraldine Thompson and lawyer Fatima Rita Fahmy all have agreed to the three-hour debate, which will take […]
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Scott PowersJune 30, 2016
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Orlando

What separates Val Demings, Geraldine Thompson, Bob Poe, Fatima Rita Fahmy in CD 10 debate?

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Two months away from the Aug. 30 Democratic primary, the four candidates vying to run in the Democratically solid Florida’s 10th Congressional District meet face-to-face for the first time Thursday at the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida’s debate. This was supposed to be former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings’ congressional seat. She was the […]
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Scott PowersJune 24, 2016
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Orlando

CD 10 primary with four Democrats; Thuy Lowe wins GOP nod

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As expected, Florida’s 10th Congressional District in Orlando will have a heavy slate of Democratic candidates, while Thuy Lowe has become the Republican’s nominee. Lowe, of Sorrento, was the only Republican candidate to qualify in CD 10 after another announced Republican, Geoff LaGarde, of Jacksonville, withdrew Friday and threw his support to her. She’ll face the […]
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