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Scott PowersOctober 25, 2016

Democratic nominee Stephanie Murphy is out with a new TV commercial in the Orlando market, “Times Change,” that seeks to portray Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica as out of step with the times in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The ad begins with staccato shots of a phonograph turning into a cassette player turning into a CD […]

Scott PowersOctober 25, 2016

The old guard of Orlando-Winter Park Republican politics is coming to the aid of U.S. Rep. John Mica in his hard-fought re-election battle, with tens of thousands of dollars pouring in the past few days for the 12-term incumbent in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The donations include one from Garry Jones, president of Full Sail University, the […]

Scott PowersOctober 25, 2016

A new poll commissioned by the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. John Mica shows he has a solid lead over Democratic challenger Stephanie Murphy. The poll, taken Oct. 20-23 by Cherry Communications, showed Republican Mica of Winter Park had 47 percent among likely voters and Murphy of Winter Park had 42 percent. The gap increased […]

Scott PowersOctober 21, 2016

The National Rifle Association and Gabby Giffords‘ Americans for Responsible Solutions are weighing in on Florida’s 7th Congressional District race between Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica and Democratic challenger Stephanie Murphy. The first shot fired was by Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun-law-reform group founded by former Arizona congresswoman, Giffords, who was shot and nearly […]

Scott PowersOctober 17, 2016

U.S. Rep. John Mica is finding himself defending a “no” vote and comments he made 36 years ago in the Florida House of Representatives against a bill that would have made marital rape a crime. Apparently in 1980 it was unclear whether Florida statutes considered marital rape as rape. It took two more years before […]

Scott PowersOctober 17, 2016

Though he has not yet drawn the kind of massive outside campaign support backing his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. John Mica raised $400,000 in the seven weeks prior to October and had more than $1 million left to spend against Stephanie Murphy in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. Murphy also raised nearly $400,000 between the Aug. […]

Scott PowersOctober 13, 2016

Democratic nominee Stephanie Murphy has received the endorsements of firefighters’ unions in Orange and Seminole counties in her quest to be elected in Florida’s 7th Congressional District representing those counties, her campaign announced Thursday. Murphy, a businesswoman and business professor at Rollins College who once served as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense, […]

Scott PowersOctober 8, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Stephanie Murphy has called on her Republican opponent U.S. Rep. John Mica to denounce Donald Trump for newly disclosed statements about women and she released a new TV commercial saying Mica shares’ Trump’s ‘harmful policies.’ The TV commercial, “It’s Time To Change Washington,” charges that Mica and Trump share policies opposing a woman’s […]

Larry GriffinSeptember 12, 2016

At a fundraising breakfast Monday morning at the Brio Tuscan Grille in Winter Park, 7th Congressional District incumbent John Mica warned of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) trying to “buy” the election for his challenger, Stephanie Murphy. And it was the supporters of his campaign, he stressed, that could stop that from happening. Mica was introduced by […]

Scott PowersAugust 30, 2016

U.S. Rep. John Mica generally takes primary challenges like Sunday morning walks in the park, and on Tuesday the 12-term Republican congressman from Winter Park once again never broke much of a sweat on his way to the finish line. Mica swept away challenger Mark Busch, a Casselberry businessman and former Soil and Water Conservation […]

Tag: CD 7

Stephanie Murphy up with new TV ad in CD 7: ‘Times Change’

Old-guard money pouring in for John Mica in CD 7

New poll shows John Mica with solid lead over Stephanie Murphy in CD 7

Gun groups weighing in on John Mica-Stephanie Murphy race in CD 7

John Mica: 1980 ‘spousal rape’ bill was flawed, and spousal rape is rape

John Mica, Stephanie Murphy, each raise about $400K in latest period

Firefighters’ unions endorse Stephanie Murphy for Congress in CD 7

New Stephanie Murphy TV ad says John Mica shares Donald Trump’s ‘harmful policies’

John Mica, warning of coming DCCC challenge, rallies supporters to help him win at fundraiser breakfast

John Mica gets tune-up election out of the way, set for Democratic challenge in CD 7