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Mitch PerryMay 30, 2016

Good morning, people, and welcome to the Summer of 2016. For some of us, it’s already off to a rollicking start, what the Golden State Warriors becoming the first team in 34 years to come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Conference Finals in defeating Oklahoma City in Oakland last night. Among the […]

Mitch PerryMay 23, 2016

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You might have missed it this weekend, but Pasco County-based Congressman Gus Bilirakis addressed the nation to say reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs over the past two years have been ineffectual, at best. The Congressional District 12 Republican was chosen to give the GOP response to President Obama‘s Saturday-morning address, and spent three minutes addressing the crisis at the […]

Guest AuthorJune 3, 2014

Last week, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki took the public-relations bullet for President Obama in an attempt to ease the damage of the growing VA scandal. VA officials have routinely hid months-long wait times that veterans faced when seeking care at VA facilities across the nation. Shinseki ended his five-year stint at the VA and […]

Peter SchorschJune 2, 2014

Gov. Rick Scott deserves some credit for being one of the loudest critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the scandal at the Veterans Administration. Last week, Scott announced that Florida is suing the VA to grant state health inspectors access to VA hospitals. For more than a month, the Obama administration denied state health inspectors […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.31.16 – Bernie Sanders calls Warriors comeback a “very good omen for our campaign”

In GOP Saturday address, Gus Bilirakis blasts lack of adequate reforms at VA

Steve Kurlander: VA’s problems will spread to the entire health-care system

Peter Schorsch: Scott outraged by VA scandal, but unfazed by DCF cover-up