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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 22, 2016

Two years after announcing his 2014 congressional bid there, Curt Clawson returned to Doc’s Beach House in Bonita Springs to say thank you. Clawson announced Thursday he was not running for re-election in Congressional District 19, saying he wanted to spend more time at home with his ailing father. On Sunday, dozens of supporters crowded […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 21, 2016

Naples Republican Francis Rooney isn’t ruling out a congressional bid. The former ambassador to the Holy See said Saturday “it would be premature” to say he was considering a run. However, he said he is researching his options and intends to make a decision about whether to mount a bid for Congressional District 19 in […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 5, 2016

Francis Rooney, the former ambassador to the Holy See, is not running for the U.S. Senate. In an email Monday, Rooney said he decided not to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio. The Naples Republican said the time wasn’t right for him to jump into the race. “While we desperately need business […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 21, 2016

Francis Rooney said he was unsure whether he would support Donald Trump, and tried to distance himself from the GOP front-runner. In an interview with NPR this past Tuesday, Rooney, a Naples Republican and former ambassador to the Holy See, said the “amount of anger and frustration over the last … seven years and two […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 25, 2016

Last week, FloridaPolitics.com was the first to report that Manatee developer Carlos Beruff was considering entering the race for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. That report was later confirmed by a story in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that outlined how a “team is in place and ready to go” if Beruff pulls the trigger on running. Keep that reporting in mind as […]

Phil AmmannMay 29, 2015

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Blaise Ingoglia has announced a partial list of the 2016 GOP Finance Committee. In a statement Friday, the Hernando County lawmaker said he expects the group to “jumpstart the party’s fundraising efforts for the 2016 election cycle” with a goal of delivering Florida’s 29 electoral votes to a Republican presidential […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 28, 2015

The Ron DeSantis for Senate juggernaut rolls on, according to an email sent out Thursday morning by the DeSantis campaign. “DeSantis for Florida began the second fundraising quarter with nearly $1.1 million in Cash on Hand and has already picked up the support of conservative grassroots groups like the Club for Growth PAC, Senate Conservatives Fund, […]

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Curt Clawson on not running for re-election: ‘I just followed my heart’

Naples Republican Francis Rooney not ruling out CD 19 bid

Francis Rooney says he won’t run for U.S. Senate

Francis Rooney attributes Donald Trump’s rise to “anger and frustration”

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RPOF picks first group of 2016 Finance Committee members

Email Insights: Ron DeSantis for Florida thanks “key supporters”