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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 […]

Ryan RayMay 17, 2016

U.S Rep. David Jolly‘s quixotic “Stop Act” proposal to bar sitting members of Congress from raising money on the job may have gotten him in hot water with some in his party, but it also seems to have won him some admirers in the press. The plan at least “deserves a look,” writes Dana Milbank of the […]

Mitch PerryMay 17, 2016

Republican Todd Wilcox is feeling good about himself and his Senate campaign these days. The former combat veteran and military defense contractor was a complete no name in Florida politics when he announced he was entering the race on the Fourth of July. Now, recent polls show him competitive against the top two Democrats in the race. In a year […]

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 […]

Mitch PerryMay 17, 2016

Democrats in Kentucky and Oregon go to the polls tonight, and all indications are Bernie Sanders will win at least one those two contests. Not that it will make much of a dent in Hillary Clinton‘s delegate lead. The way the party apportions delegates, he’s simply not going to be able to catch up by next […]

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

Minnesota Congressman Rick Nolan was one of what were called the “Watergate babies” when he was originally elected to Congress in a huge Democratic class in 1974. He left after 1980, but returned in 2012 after more than 30 years in the private sector. He says lots of things have changed in the three decades in between, […]

Mitch PerryMay 16, 2016

Slowly but surely, the GOP Senate candidates are taking more shots at each other in advance of the Aug. 30 primary. Carlos Beruff has yet to respond directly to David Jolly’s criticism that he should apologize for referring to President Obama as “an animal” in a speech last week before St. John’s County Republicans. Earlier on […]

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: David Jolly

Super PAC forms to back Todd Wilcox

David Jolly ‘speaks the truth’ on fundraising reform

Todd Wilcox takes stock of his campaign and his GOP U.S. Senate opponents

Todd Wilcox announces two additions to his finance committee

Mitch Perry Report for 5.17.16 – Elizabeth Warren for VP momentum grows

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

David Jolly and Minnesota’s Rick Nolan discuss the Stop Act at National Press Club

In local TV interview, David Jolly blasts Carlos Beruff’s business background

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