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Mitch PerryJune 21, 2015

Potential support for Jeb Bush has edged upward in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Sunday, with the share of Republican primary voters who said they were open to his candidacy rising to 75 percent in June from 70 percent in April and just 49 percent in March. Preliminary numbers from the […]

Mitch PerryJune 19, 2015

Although he was criticized earlier on Friday for seeming to downplay the racial aspect of 21-year-old Dylann Roof’s murdering nine people in a historic black church in Charleston on Wednesday night, Jeb Bush had no problem acknowledging that fact while addressing approximately 500 people at the Hillsborough County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Tampa on Friday night. […]

Mitch PerryJune 19, 2015

Two hours before Jeb Bush was scheduled to address hundreds of people at the Hillsborough County Republican Lincoln Day dinner in Tampa, fifteen opponents of Common Core education standards stood outside the Pepin Hospitality protesting the former Florida Governor’s appearance. “I’m against anything that nationalizes education,” said Emma Jane Miller, a former private school teacher […]

Mitch PerryJune 19, 2015

Democratic presidential nominee Martin O’Malley knows he needs to start getting attention in his slow-rolling campaign to challenge Hillary Clinton, so he went bold Friday in reaching out to a sweet spot of the Democratic primary party electorate in a response to Wednesday’s attack in a Charleston, S.C. church that left nine dead. In an […]

Mitch PerryJune 19, 2015

The Charleston shootings on Wednesday night was clearly an act of domestic terrorism. The racial element was also first and foremost in the young killer’s motivation. Now what? “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

Last weekend in South Florida, the Florida Democratic Party released its LEAD Task Force Report, a look at what went so wrong for the party at the ballot box in 2014. Better messaging is listed as one of the recommendations. “While this message proved powerfully persuasive to many groups, it failed to connect in north and […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

The House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly OK’d the Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act, which approves Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). The victory for President Barack Obama came a week after House Democrats blocked a previous attempt to approve fast-track authority, concerned that the trade deal would not do enough to protect American workers. That opposition from […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

Six days after Democrats deserted President Barack Obama on the signature trade issue of his administration, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to grant presidential “fast track” authority to negotiate trade deals, including the Trans Pacific Partnership, a controversial 12-nation agreement with Pacific Rim nations. The passage of the measure, by a 218-208 vote, […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

A sizable percentage of the 100,000 or so entertainment industry professionals in Florida feel let down this week. The Legislature once again refused to include money in the state’s $80 billion budget for tax incentives to lure Hollywood to film in the Sunshine State. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed,” said Gus […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

For the second time in the past week, a new state poll of registered Republican Party voters in Florida show Marco Rubio gaining on Jeb Bush. A Quinnipiac survey released Thursday morning shows that Bush maintains a narrow, 2 percentage point lead over the younger U.S. senator, 20-18 percent. Scott Walker is third with 9 percent […]

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Support for Jeb Bush grows in new WSJ/NBC News poll

In Tampa, Jeb Bush says post-Charleston: “We need to bring love back into our society”

Common Core critics protest Jeb Bush speech in Tampa

Martin O’Malley “pissed” by massacre, calls for national assault weapons ban

Mitch Perry Report for 6.19.15 – American terrorism, continued

Senate candidate Pam Keith sounds off on “paternalistic” Florida Democratic Party leadership

Gus Bilirakis justifies vote for Trade Promotion Authority

Alan Grayson calls House trade deal vote “unpardonable offense” to workers

Film incentive tax bill again dies on cutting room floor in Tallahassee

Marco Rubio gains more ground on Jeb Bush in new Quinnipiac Florida poll