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Jac VerSteegJuly 1, 2016

My eyeballs are still scorched from reading Tom Jackson’s column “No moving on from Benghazi horror.” I’m on the left and he’s on the right, but I love an opinion piece that pulls no punches. Jackson’s premise in the piece, which appeared in FloridaPolitics.com, is that, “The Obama administration failed at every step of the […]

Mitch PerryJune 30, 2016

Battling in an extremely competitive election this fall against Lisa Montelione, House District 63 Republican Rep. Shawn Harrison has procured another Democrat to back his re-election campaign. It’s former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco. “I’ve had the honor to serve our city and region for four terms as mayor, over several decades. During that time, I’ve had the privilege to work with […]

Associated PressJune 27, 2016

Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that to best compete against Hillary Clinton he needs more than the bare-bones campaign team that led him to primary success. But many of the most experienced Republican political advisers aren’t willing to work for him. From Texas to New Hampshire, well-respected members of the Republican Party’s professional class say […]

Mitch PerryJune 16, 2016

As Marco Rubio contemplates continuing his career in the U.S. Senate beyond the end of this year, an anti-violence group is bashing him for his record of voting to protect the loophole in federal law that allows known and suspected terrorists on the FBI’s watch list to pass a criminal background check and legally purchase […]

Mitch PerryJune 15, 2016

GOP Senate candidate Todd Wilcox says his campaign strategy won’t change a bit if Marco Rubio enters the contest for the seat he gave up over a year ago to run for president. “There’s currently a contrast between me and all the other candidates in this crowded field, and that contrast is as stark between me and them as it will […]

Associated PressJune 12, 2016

Pastor Richie Clendenen stepped away from the pulpit, microphone in hand. He walked the aisles of the Christian Fellowship Church, his voice rising to describe the perils believers face in 21st-century America. “The Bible says in this life you will have troubles, you will have persecutions. And Jesus takes it a step further: You’ll be […]

Peter SchorschJune 11, 2016

It was the lone comment on a story we posted. And it made my spine shudder. A local blogger in Palm Beach (his name is Fred Hadley, and he runs a community/political blog in Century Village) found an old story about Irv Slosberg allegedly stealing a voting machine right after the infamous Gore-Bush election/debacle. County […]

Peter SchorschJune 9, 2016

It’s a cold case. It’s an old case. And it may not amount to a hill of beans. But now that Irv Slosberg is contemplating a run for the state Senate, local chatter about a 16-year-old matter is making the rounds once again. We all remember the 2000 presidential election and the razor-thin victory by George W. Bush over Al […]

Associated PressMay 23, 2016

For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he’ll need the votes of women like Elizabeth Andrus. Yet Andrus, a registered Republican from Delaware, Ohio, sees “buffoonery” in the presumptive Republican nominee and says “I am not on the Trump train.” With all the trouble in the world, she went on, “you just […]

Darryl PaulsonMay 21, 2016

On May 18, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump releases a list of 11 judges that he would “most likely” use to select his appointees to the Supreme Court. The list of 11 names included 11 whites and eight males. Six of the 11 were appointees of George W. Bush, and the other five are […]

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Lawrence McClure. Image via Florida House.

Jac VerSteeg: Boots on the ground lead to bodies on the ground

Dick Greco is backing Shawn Harrison in the HD 63 race

Many experienced GOP strategists unwilling to work for Donald Trump

Gabby Giffords anti-violence group calls out Marco Rubio on terrorist watch list votes

Todd Wilcox kicks off his ‘Preserving Peace through Strength’ statewide tour in Tampa

DIVIDED AMERICA: Evangelicals feel alienated, anxious

Did Theresa LePore just say what I think she said?

Palm Beach County, Irv Slosberg and the case of the missing voting machine

In swing state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Donald Trump

Darryl Paulson: Donald Trump goes a-courting