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Staff ReportsOctober 27, 2016
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Rep. John Mica was had to fend off Democratic attacks about his involvement in the redevelopment of a historic Washington D.C. landmark. According to Morning Consult, Mica got a shout-out from Ivanka Trump Wednesday during the grand opening of Donald Trump’s new luxury hotel. Ivanka Trump, according to the report, “touted Mica’s support in the redevelopment […]

Scott PowersOctober 24, 2016
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President Barack Obama has endorsed the congressional candidacies of Democrats Val Demings and Stephanie Murphy, their campaigns announced Monday. Murphy, of Winter Park, is running against Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. John Mica, also of Winter Park in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. Demings, a former Orlando police chief, is running against Republican nominee Thuy Lowe of […]

Scott PowersOctober 20, 2016
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What a party bus this will be. A Democratic Party bus, filled with mayors from Florida including Orlando’s Buddy Dyer, Miami Beach’s Phillip Levine, Tampa’s Bob Buckhorn, and St. Petersburg’s Rick Kriseman, has begun a cross-state tour to campaign for Hillary Clinton. Hillary for America announced Thursday that those four and 19 other mayors and former mayors […]

Scott PowersOctober 18, 2016
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Osceola County Commission Chairwoman Viviana Janer and two activist Puerto Rican women from Central Florida announced an effort Tuesday to convince the region’s Puerto Rican women to come out to vote against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday. At a press conference in Kissimmee, Chairwoman Janer, Somos Orlando [We Are Orlando] […]

Jim RosicaOctober 17, 2016
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It’s a small lead — 27 ballots — but Democrats are now in front in the number of returned vote-by-mail ballots. With more than a half-million ballots turned in, the Division of Elections website Monday showed registered Democrats had submitted 210,734 ballots to Republicans’ 210,707. Other party and no-party voters have returned another 91,648 ballots to their local supervisors of elections. Monday’s update […]


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