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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 […]

Mitch PerryMay 20, 2016

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If you’ve heard GOP senate candidate Carlos Lopez-Cantera at all on the campaign trail, he makes his disdain for Washington and D.C.-based politicians very explicit. He’s doubling down on how ineffective he believes government has been in people’s lives with a new digital ad called “Contempt.” “I think anybody who serves in public office should have a little contempt […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 17, 2016

Todd Wilcox is growing his team. The Republican U.S. Senate hopeful announced Tuesday that two more people — Carol Craig and Robert H. Gidel Sr. — have joined his finance committee. “As momentum for our campaign continues to grow, I am honored to have the support of great Floridians like Carol and Robert,” he said in […]

Scott PowersMay 16, 2016

Florida’s outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio suggested Monday he may be ready to endorse the Republican he wants to follow him into the office. “I’ll have something to say about that in the next couple of days,” Rubio said Monday after meeting in Orlando with Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs to discuss Central Florida’s heroin crisis. […]

Mitch PerryMay 16, 2016

Three more opponents of Florida GOP Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff are criticizing him after it was reported Sunday that he referred to President Obama as “an animal” while speaking in front of a group of St. John’s County Republicans last week. “Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he’s an animal, OK — seven […]

Mitch PerryMay 16, 2016

Carlos Beruff made some news yesterday, but despite his aggressive response, it can’t be marked up as a good day for the Republican candidate for Senate. The Manatee County developer prides himself on not being politically correct, and he’s not absolutely NOT apologizing after the Huffington Post reported over the weekend (with video) of Beruff calling President Obama “an […]

Tag: Carlos Lopez-Cantera

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

Carlos Lopez-Cantera says he wants to ‘un-do’ things in Washington in new ad

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

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

Super PAC forms to back Todd Wilcox

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

Todd Wilcox announces two additions to his finance committee

Marco Rubio may be ready to endorse in U.S. Senate race, defends his own pace

Three more of Carlos Beruff’s U.S. Senate opponents speak out on his “animal” remark

Mitch Perry Report for 5.16.16 – Carlos Beruff is NOT apologizing regarding Obama remark