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Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2016

#NeverTrump conservatives in Florida have one less option to choose for president in November now. Evan McMullin, a 40-year-old former CIA official from Utah, has been proposed as a conservative alternative to Trump. He was the nominee of the Independent Party in Florida, but has been removed from the ballot by the Florida Division of […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2016

Hillsborough House District 60 Democratic candidate David Singer said Jackie Toledo “doesn’t want the voters to know her extreme position on the issues,” and contends that’s why the she won’t be appearing at a Tampa Tiger Bay Club event scheduled for this Friday. Toledo’s campaign spokesperson said earlier this week that Tampa Republican had a conflict for the event, in […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2016

Like the many Tampa Bay area GOP state lawmakers she wants to join in Tallahassee this November, Jackie Toledo said Wednesday she is disgusted by the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission’s approval of new regulations that could ultimately lead ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft to leave the region. “The rules passed by the PTC are clear examples […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2016

David Singer says that when he began his run for the Hillsborough County based House District 60 race in April, his goal was not to get into an ideological discussion about left vs. right, but “right vs. wrong.” And now that the primary election season is over, he says he intends to use the next eight […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 8, 2016

To begin with today, props to the Tampa Bay Times’ Anastasia Dawson for her portrayal on the very short life of Levonia Riggins, the 22-year-old black man shot and killed last week by a white Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy because … well, because they said he went for a gun when he was confronted in […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 7, 2016

David Singer, the South Tampa-based land use attorney now running as a Democrat in the Florida House District 60 race, has received a nice boost to his campaign by getting the endorsement of all seven members of the Tampa City Council. Singer is running against Republican Jackie Toledo in the race on Nov. 8. Toledo, a professional […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 1, 2016

I think I speak for a lot of Florida political observers in expressing my disappointment that, for whatever reason, Patrick Murphy never debated his Democratic Senate opponents, Pam Keith and Alan Grayson, during the just-concluded primary campaign. Murphy avoided debates organized by Florida Public Radio stations and Bay News 9/News 13 in Orlando well before […]

Mitch PerryAugust 31, 2016

The Republican race for House District 60 was a nail-biter Tuesday night, with civil engineer Jackie Toledo getting just 246 more votes (out of 12,528 cast) than businesswoman Rebecca Smith, giving her a less than two-percentage-point victory. Smith was the clear GOP establishment favorite in the race, but obviously, not among the electorate. Toledo raised […]

Joe HendersonAugust 30, 2016

Jackie Toledo narrowly held off establishment favorite Rebecca Smith Tuesday in the Republican House District 60. Toledo will oppose Democrat David Singer in the November general election. Singer was unopposed in the primary. With all precincts reporting, Toledo held a 222-vote margin out of more than 12,000 votes cast. The district includes all of Davis […]

Mitch PerryAugust 19, 2016

Jackie Toledo says she’ll crack down on “illegal aliens” if elected to the Florida House , but her husband went across the border two years ago to bring over undocumented children escaping gangs in Honduras. As FloridaPolitics reported earlier this week, Toledo sent out a mailer to voters in House District 60 that said if elected to the […]

Tag: David Singer

Mitch Perry Report for 9.15.16 — One less #NeverTrump option for president in Florida

David Singer calls out Jackie Toledo for ‘ducking’ Tiger Bay appearance

HD 60 GOP candidate Jackie Toledo slams PTC’s ridesharing regulations

HD 60 Democrat David Singer says his campaign is about right vs. wrong, not left vs right

Mitch Perry Report for 9.8.16 — The reality of our binary choice for POTUS

Entire Tampa City Council comes out in support of David Singer in House District 60 race

Mitch Perry Report for 9.1.16 —The debate about the debates begins in Florida

David Singer compares Jackie Toledo to Donald Trump as the HD 60 general election race begins

Jackie Toledo narrowly defeats ‘establishment favorite’ Rebecca Smith in HD 60 primary

Jackie Toledo says ‘spouses don’t always agree’ upon news that her husband aided undocumented immigrants in 2014