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Diane RobertsMarch 21, 2016

So the other jackboot has dropped: Rick Scott endorsed his Soul Brother but only after that big Florida Primary win. Scott signaled his man-crush back in January, writing breathlessly for USA Today that Herr Drumpf reminds him of, well, him: rich, an “outsider,” a business hombre incensed over “endless and tedious regulation and taxation.” You […]

Associated PressMarch 21, 2016

Florida’s lieutenant governor joined over 200 people in Miami’s Little Havana to protest against President Barack Obama‘s trip to Cuba. Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera is the son and grandson of Cuban exiles. The Republican running for the U.S. Senate said the first presidential visit to Cuba in nearly 90 years was “a sad day for […]

Mitch PerryMarch 20, 2016

Todd Wilcox was the early aggressor against David Jolly in the first one-on-one encounter between the two aspiring Florida Republicans for the U.S. Senate on Friday, but Jolly more than held his own in a spirited debate at the Tampa Tiger Bay Club. The two men are part of a field of five candidates running to succeed Marco Rubio in the […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 18, 2016

On Sunday, U.S. Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff will join the March in support of Cuban Civil Society in Miami to protest President Barack Obama’s Cuba trip. The March begins 11 a.m. at the Brigade 2506 Monument, at the intersection of Southwest 13th Avenue and Southwest Eighth Street. It ends at the Casa del Preso Político […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2016

On Wednesday, Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff announced a March 20 visit to Miami to join a group protesting President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba. In a two-paragraph statement, Beruff didn’t stray too far from GOP intransigence regarding the U.S.-Cuba thaw. Carlos Beruff said, “President Obama has given the Castro regime exactly what they want: more money. And […]

Mitch PerryMarch 15, 2016

Tampa/St. Petersburg Congresswoman Kathy Castor announced on Monday that she has been asked by President Obama to join him and the First Lady on his historic trip to Cuba, which begins on Sunday. “This monumental and historic step is needed to help turn the page on a failed policy of isolation and move forward with greater engagement […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera wants Floridians to know his love of America comes in part from his family’s flight from Cuban oppression, in a new video ad released by his U.S. Senate campaign. In the 60-second spot called “Freedom,” Lopez-Cantera tells the story of how his grandfather was arrested and detained in Cuba in 1960, and […]

Jac VerSteegMarch 1, 2016

Marco Rubio and Donald Trump are slinging mud by spraying water. Perhaps this results from the unconscious influence of their ties to Florida, a vast peninsula surrounded by the sparkling aqua stuff. Trump himself is master of an estate whose name – Mar-a-Lago – derives from its proximity to two bodies of water. Rubio’s persona […]

Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2016

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio always had an uphill battle to win Florida’s Republican Hispanic support away from Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential race, and now that Bush is gone there appears to be no automatic switch. Bush, who dropped out after a disappointing showing in South Carolina Saturday, had developed powerful loyalty among a […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2016

The Cuba that President Barack Obama intends to visit next month could feature streets teaming with genuinely grateful and eager people – or a street show carefully orchestrated through fear by a still-oppressive and all-powerful government. Those were the pictures drawn Friday by Ralph Patino, founder of Cuba Now and an advisor to Obama on […]

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Diane Roberts: Florida GOP voters don’t want to think, they just want to believe

Carlos Lopez-Cantera joins Miami protest over Barack Obama’s Cuba trip

Todd Wilcox, David Jolly clash early, often during Tiger Bay debate in Tampa

Carlos Beruff to march in protest of president’s Cuba trip

Carlos Beruff glad Barack Obama visiting Cuba, hopes he doesn’t come back.

Kathy Castor joining President Obama in trip to Cuba next week

Carlos Lopez-Cantera highlights his family’s Cuba history in first campaign video

Jac VerSteeg: Bladders, sweat, Flint and tears

Marco Rubio not yet locking in Jeb Bush’s Florida Hispanic backers

Experts draw starkly different pictures of Cuba that Barack Obama will visit