Gabrielle RussonAugust 14, 2024
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The vitriol in politics today is dangerous to society and democracy, Murphy said.
Tag: Dick Batchelor
Gabrielle RussonAugust 14, 2024
Guest AuthorJune 4, 2024
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I like to think bridge-building is really an appeal to our better selves.
Jacob OglesOctober 22, 2022
4min0
Monique Worrell and Linda Chapin endorsed the HD 45 candidate this week.
Scott PowersNovember 10, 2020
6min1338
Stephanie Murphy, Val Demings, Chris King, not to mention Bill Nelson.
Scott PowersOctober 21, 2019
4min453
Orange County judges aggressive in taking guns from domestic violence suspects
Scott PowersMay 17, 2018
8min264
Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Winter Park entrepreneur Chris King weighed in on an Orange County local issue, saying the push for a children’s trust fund fits in for his call for sweeping criminal justice reform in Florida. A coalition of children’s advocates is pushing this year to get a children’s services independent taxing authority, like […]
Scott PowersJanuary 25, 2018
3min858
An Orange County School Board race is demonstrating how well it can pay to know the right people in political circles. The campaign for Melissa Byrd, running for the District 7 seat in Orange County, is holding an early campaign fundraiser next Tuesday that includes large handfuls of top Central Florida campaign contributors, business voices, […]
Scott PowersNovember 3, 2017
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A new non-partisan debate commission is being formed for Orange County and another for Florida to partner in and promote candidate debates ranging from county commission races to statewide races, with planning participation at this point from a wide-range of high-profile Central Florida politicos. Formed by former Orange County Commission candidate Gregory Eisenberg and his […]
Drew WilsonOctober 11, 2017
8min317
Election Day is 13 months away but a handful of rock star candidates, both Republicans and Democrats, have already started to break away from the pack in crowded races for open House seats. Most of them saw a dip in September – blame it on the rain – but each remains the leader in their […]
Scott PowersOctober 9, 2017
2min300
Longtime Orlando civic fixture Dick Batchelor is endorsing Democrat Anna Eskamani in the House District 47 race, her campaign announced Monday. Batchelor served in the Florida House of Representatives in the 1970s and ’80s and since has been both a consultant and lobbyist professionally and an appointee, by both Democrats and Republicans, to numerous civic […]