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Scott PowersSeptember 29, 2016

At least one national observer now believes the race between Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica and Democratic challenger Stephanie Murphy is now a toss-up in the Seminole County-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The closely watched Cook Political Report changed its rating of the district race for the second time in a week Thursday. It has gone […]

Scott PowersSeptember 23, 2016

The conservative watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust has filed an ethics complaint against Democrat Stephanie Murphy, nominee in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, for failing to file her personal financial disclosure statement in time for the deadline. The group filed the complaint with the U.S. House Committee on Ethics Thursday, requesting an investigation. […]

Scott PowersSeptember 21, 2016

A new poll conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says that its candidate Stephanie Murphy is within striking distance of longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The poll gives Mica 48 percent and Murphy 45 percent in the district, which covers north central and northeast Orange County and […]

Scott PowersSeptember 15, 2016

Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica and his Democratic opponent, Stephanie Murphy, in Florida’s 7th Congressional District are the two wealthiest congressional candidates in Central Florida this year, each with net worths topping $1 million. Mica’s net worth ranges between $3 million and $9 million, most of it tied up in real estate, according to his latest personal […]

Scott PowersSeptember 12, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Stephanie Murphy is debuting her first television commercial in the Winter Park-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District, highlighting her family’s past and her defense analysis work. The commercial, which begins airing Tuesday, opens by explaining how her family escaped communist Vietnam as part of the historic “boat people” flotilla while she was a baby […]

Scott PowersSeptember 9, 2016

Texas Democratic icon Wendy Davis and Florida congressional candidate Stephanie Murphy argued Friday that the November election offers picks between women who understand issues such as child care, women’s choice, and equal pay — and men who do not. Davis, the former Texas state senator who made national headlines by filibustering an anti-abortion bill there […]

Scott PowersSeptember 7, 2016

Central Floridians will soon be getting to know Stephanie Murphy and presumably John Mica very, very well — at least from the perspective of Democrats who are pushing her in the now intensely competitive contest for Florida’s Congressional District 7. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which helped find and promote Murphy to run against Mica this year, […]

Scott PowersAugust 30, 2016

U.S. Rep. John Mica generally takes primary challenges like Sunday morning walks in the park, and on Tuesday the 12-term Republican congressman from Winter Park once again never broke much of a sweat on his way to the finish line. Mica swept away challenger Mark Busch, a Casselberry businessman and former Soil and Water Conservation […]

Scott PowersAugust 22, 2016

The entry-bell surge of political action committee money into new Democratic nominee Stephanie Murphy‘s campaign fund has triggered a similar rush of PAC money into the war chest of Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. John Mica in the Winter Park-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District. National Democrats signaled they’re taking Murphy’s candidacy seriously, compared with those of […]

Scott PowersAugust 20, 2016

Democratic U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee of California will campaign for Democrat Stephanie Murphy in Sanford for Florida’s 7th Congressional District campaign. Murphy, of Winter Park, is taking on Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica, a 12-term incumbent, in a race that national Democrats are targeting. Lee’s appearance, set for a meet-and-greet in downtown Sanford Tuesday afternoon, is […]

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Cook Report changes rating of CD 7 race to ‘toss-up’ between John Mica and Stephanie Murphy

Conservative watchdog group files ethics complaint against Stephanie Murphy in CD 7

DCCC poll says Stephanie Murphy in striking distance of John Mica in CD 7

CD 7 race features millionaire candidates, John Mica and Stephanie Murphy

Stephanie Murphy TV spot in CD 7 introduces her past

Wendy Davis and Stephanie Murphy: women’s issues call for woman leadership

DCCC, House Majority PAC make massive TV buys in Stephanie Murphy-John Mica contest

John Mica gets tune-up election out of the way, set for Democratic challenge in CD 7

PACs gearing up for John Mica-Stephanie Murphy in CD 7

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee to campaign for Stephanie Murphy in Sanford