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Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

Regulate Florida, the group aiming to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in Florida in 2016 that would legalize recreational pot, is ending its campaign. Members acknowledge they will not be able to obtain the more than 683,000 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot by February. Supporters were told Wednesday night via a conference […]

Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

Speculation still has it that there could be more candidates to enter the Florida U.S. Senate race, and a new survey of that race out on Wednesday from St. Leo University Polling Institute shows why that scenario persists. A majority of voters surveyed – 56.5 percent – say they are unsure who they prefer in […]

Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

Donald Trump continues to lead in the GOP presidential race in Florida, according to a new poll released Wednesday by St. Leo University Polling Institute. The NYC businessman is at 30.6 percent, up nearly 5 percent points from a similar survey conducted in October. Marco Rubio is in second place with 15 percent, a drop of […]

Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

Florida Governor Rick Scott has been targeting the Florida public hospital industry for much of this year, after the Florida Hospital Association made a strong pitch for the Legislature to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a push that failed for the third straight year in Tallahassee, and after the federal government announced deep cuts in hospital funding […]

Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

Tampa area state Rep. Jamie Grant said Wednesday he’s not backing away from his Monday tweet calling Donald Trump‘s proposed ban on Muslims from entering the country a “a fascist proposal.” “The answer to immigration problems in this country is not fascism. It’s not registries of people who look a certain way or believe a certain thing,” […]

Mitch PerryDecember 9, 2015

There is a story in Wednesday morning’s New York Times quoting a variety of police chiefs across the country bemoaning how the prevalence of video cameras are changing the way they do their jobs, and makes it harder for them – even when those cameras come from their own agencies. Since the fall of 2014 when […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

The Hillsborough County Legislative Delegation spent hours (and hours) on Tuesday discussing proposed legislation that would bring ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft into compliance with the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission, but whether they actually moved the issue forward at the end of the day is dubious. The setting for the local group of state lawmakers […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

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South Florida U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy announced Tuesday his support for legislation that would ban people put on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy firearms in the U.S. That’s the same legislation that the GOP-led Congress rejected last week in both the House and the Senate, coming in the same week of the […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

Pinellas County U.S. Rep. and Florida Republican Senate candidate David Jolly is calling on Donald Trump to quit his presidential bid after the GOP front-runner said all Muslims should be banned from entering the U.S. “While ISIS is beheading innocent people for their religious practices, Trump is betraying our freedoms,” Jolly said in a prepared statement issued early […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

Props to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, whose rebuke to Donald Trump via Twitter is a featured story on this morning’s Drudge Report. I’m going to let the fallout from Trump’s comment that the U.S. government should ban all Muslims from entering the country marinate for at least another 24 hours, to think about something else. It was […]

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Bid to legalize recreational marijuana will not make it on 2016 ballot in Florida

“Unsure” leads new GOP Florida Senate poll with David Jolly next at 11.9%

St. Leo University Florida Presidential Poll out shows Donald Trump with 30.5 % — Marco Rubio 15% — Jeb Bush 14%

Tampa house Democrats blast Scott administration’s investigation into public hospitals

Jamie Grant doubles down on referring to Donald Trump proposal on Muslims as “fascist”

Mitch Perry Report for 12.9.15 – Welcome to the new world of policing

Hillsborough Legislative Delegation OKs measure to regulate Uber and Lyft, but future unclear

Patrick Murphy urges ban on gun sales to those on terrorist watch list

David Jolly says Donald Trump should quit race after urging Muslim ban

Mitch Perry Report for 12.8.15 – Remembering John Lennon