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Mitch PerryJune 23, 2015

Rick Scott has a week to sign the just-passed $78.7 billion Florida budget, and he’s promising taxpayers that “I’m going to watch your money” as he reviews projects with his veto pen. The Legislature’s last-minute addition of $300 million in pet local projects (including for a USF medical facility moving to downtown Tampa) has caused outrage in […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

No “fracking fees.” That was the message from a press conference held Monday afternoon in St. Petersburg, as state Representatives Dwight Dudley (D-St. Petersburg), Jose Javier Rodriguez (D-Miami), and Amanda Murphy (D-New Port Richey) spoke out against a decision last week by the Florida Public Service Commission that would allow Florida Power & Light to collect up to […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

As they threatened to do, the environmental movement in Florida is not abiding by the the state Legislature’s failure to comply with Amendment 1, the Water and Land Conservation Initiative in the Florida Constitution approved last fall by voters. A lawsuit was filed in Leon County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon by the Earthjustice group on behalf […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

Criminal justice reform has become a hot topic this year, and Rand Paul isn’t the only Republican talking about such efforts on the GOP campaign trail. Crime rates have been dropping across the country over the past decade, but in Florida the state’s incarceration rates have continued to rise. The ACLU will soon pick three […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

In the wake of the racist terrorist attack on nine black people at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina last week, there has been a renewed focus on the divisiveness of the Confederate flag,which currently flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. Meanwhile the biggest Confederate flag in the world (according to its […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

Rick Scott is coming soon to Connecticut to sell business leaders on the virtues of relocating Florida, where he’ll pitch them on the idea that they’d save a whole lot of money by coming to a much lower-taxed state. And Enterprise Florida is already hyping the visit, as they began airing a radio in markets in […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

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With a new poll showing Jeb Bush gaining support and Rand Paul losing it with some GOP primary voters, the Kentucky Senator’s Super PAC is now attacking the former Florida Governor as “Bailout Bush” in a new digital ad and website (though as of this morning that website is up but hasn’t been constructed yet). […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015

Current events can change the trajectory of a presidential race, and all of the men and women running for the nation’s highest office in the land are being tested in terms of how they react to the racist killings in Charleston last week. While Democrats are willing to bring up the issue of guns, Republicans […]

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. […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.23.15 — Will Rick Scott veto IMG Academy funding?

Florida House Democrats denounce FPL’s “fracking fee”

Environmental groups sue Legislature for failing on Amendment 1

Florida under consideration for ACLU push on sentencing reform?

Kathy Castor says she hates Tampa’s Confederate flag

Rick Scott cuts radio ad in Connecticut about doing business in the Sunshine State

Rand Paul super PAC attacks Jeb Bush as “Bailout Bush”

Mitch Perry Report for 6.22.15 – South Carolina’s Confederate flag – and Tampa’s

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”