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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 24, 2016

Two Republican Senate hopefuls are calling on President Barack Obama to fire the head of Veterans Affairs. On Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said the VA shouldn’t use wait times as a measure of success, comparing the wait times for health care to the house people wait for rides at Disney theme parks. McDonald […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 23, 2016

A super PAC aimed at helping Democratic U.S. Senate candidates is prepared to spend more than $10 million in Florida this fall. The Senate Majority PAC, a political committee aimed at helping take back the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, said it is poised to spend $10.5 million on cable and broadcast advertisements in […]

Associated PressMay 23, 2016

Democrat Alan Grayson has been dubbed “Angry Alan” by his Senate opponent, compared to Republican Donald Trump for his penchant for earning headlines with his mouth and has become the whipping post for some in the Washington party establishment who hope he loses Florida’s primary. But he said things could be worse. “At least they’re […]

Scott PowersMay 20, 2016

If companies want to know who to trust to do business in civil-war-torn Ukraine, they might contact Maitland-based Strategic Risk Management LLC for privately researched background intelligence reports. Companies that need to move goods through the dicier parts of Afghanistan might call on Winter Park-based Innovative Logistics LLC to handle the planes, warehouses, trucks and security. And if the […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 19, 2016

Republican Senate hopeful Ron DeSantis is applauding Donald Trump for his potential Supreme Court picks. On Wednesday, Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia died in February, creating a vacancy on the Supreme Court. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy, but […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 19, 2016

A hot-button topic in Northeast Florida this week was the Barack Obama administration asserting Title IX funding should be conditional on students being allowed to use the bathroom of their choice because of “gender identity” assertions. Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi have not weighed in on school bathrooms, but in Jacksonville for a stop on […]

Joe HendersonMay 18, 2016

Carlos Beruff is running the kind of campaign you would expect from someone looking to pick a fight at a bar. The Angry Man approach in his TV ads has certainly earned the Bradenton businessman name recognition as he seeks to win the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio, but that can work […]

Mitch PerryMay 18, 2016

The U.S. Senate advanced a $1.1 billion bill to help public officials battle the Zika virus Tuesday as it begins to threaten America. That’s $800 million less than the $1.9 billion that President Obama has been calling for since February, but it is more than the $622 million that the GOP-led House passed on Monday. Much […]

Mitch PerryMay 18, 2016

A new super PAC designed to support Todd Wilcox in his bid for the Florida U.S. Senate race has been formed. Wilcox, a former combat veteran and defense military contractor, is one of five Republicans in the contest to succeed Marco Rubio in the Senate. He had been the only Republican candidate in the race who […]

Mitch PerryMay 17, 2016

Following the report over the weekend that Florida GOP senate candidate Carlos Beruff referred to President Obama as “an animal” over the weekend, every other major candidate in the Senate contest in Florida, both Republican and Democratic, criticized Beruff over the remark. Almost everyone. A request for comment sent to Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera’s campaign spokesperson was […]

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Golf ball and golf club in bag on green grass

Republican Senate hopefuls call on Barack Obama to fire VA Secretary

Senate Majority PAC slated to spend $10.5M in Florida this fall

Alan Grayson: At least they’re not calling me Hitler

Todd Wilcox brings ground-level view of foreign affairs to U.S. Senate race

Ron DeSantis: ‘Donald Trump has released a list of outstanding jurists’

Carlos Lopez-Cantera calls feds’ school bathroom edict an “egregious overreach”

Carlos Beruff ‘Angry Man’ campaign always ready to pick a fight

Mitch Perry Report for 5.18.16 — D.C. Republicans at odds with each other on Zika funding

Super PAC forms to back Todd Wilcox

David Jolly blasts Carlos Lopez-Cantera’s silence over Carlos Beruff’s ‘animal’ remark