Tag: headline

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2015
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Earlier this year, a national organization rated the Tampa Bay area as 11th  in the nation for traffic congestion. Obviously, the region has problems with traffic, which is perhaps why St. Petersburg state Senator Jeff Brandes called it a “game-changer” today in describing what could be a $17 million contract that the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) was awarded by […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2015
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A majority of voters think Republican U.S. Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi probe is more about damaging Hillary Clinton than trying to uncover why Ambassador Chris Stevens was slain in Libya, a national survey commissioned by Hillary Clinton supporters contends. It also contends that a majority of voters think Jeb Bush should turn over his e-mail server from […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2015
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College access and affordability will top the agenda Monday of President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting with high school students. Obama and  Education Secretary Arne Duncan also plan to discuss allowing more flexible deadlines to the college financial aid system. Using that as a pivot point for his own struggling candidacy, Marco Rubio had an  op-ed […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 13, 2015
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Jeb Bush unveiled his tax plan last week at a poultry-cooling equipment facility in North Carolina, and his campaign team has edited footage from that event into a new ad they released on Sunday. The plan would reduce the number of tax brackets that Americans pay into from seven to three, reducing the lowest amount […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 12, 2015
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Patrick Murphy’s improbable victory over Allen West in Florida’s 18th Congressional election in 2012 made the then 29-year-old construction executive an immediate budding star in Florida Democratic politics. Outspent by more than four times than in a Republican-leaning district against a Tea Party hero, Murphy’s victory over West made national news. He followed that up by easily winning reelection […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 11, 2015
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Galvano characterizes the redistricting situation he’s engrossed in as the most challenging and difficult experience yet of his 13-year legislative career in Tallahassee. The Bradenton Republican chairs the Senate Reapportionment Committee, and has been intricately involved with trying to work with House counterpart Jose Oliva in coming up with a newly redrawn […]


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