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Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015

On Friday, Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones announced that the five-year contracts with private health care providers Corizon and Wexford Health Sources will be canceled and renegotiated, in response to the overwhelming evidence of poor care that those providers have been giving to inmates in Florida state prisons, including a decade high number of […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015

Right to Rise, the leadership PAC created by Jeb Bush last month that enables him to begin to raise money for an eventual presidential bid, has a released a new web ad this morning called, “Leadership,” which attacks Barack Obama as being weak on foreign policy. The first 30 seconds of the ad features news […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015

Right to Rise, the leadership PAC created by Jeb Bush last month that enables him to begin to raise money for an eventual presidential bid, has a released a new web ad this morning called, “Leadership,” which attacks Barack Obama as being weak on foreign policy. The first 30 seconds of the ad features news […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Last summer when she first announced her candidacy for the Tampa City Council District 6 contest, Jackie Toledo was taken to task for taking a campaign portrait in front of the city of Tampa’s official seal. According to some photography experts, the seal was photoshopped in. It was a minor embarrassment after the story was […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Last summer when she first announced her candidacy for the Tampa City Council District 6 contest, Jackie Toledo was taken to task for taking a campaign portrait in front of the city of Tampa’s official seal. According to some photography experts, the seal was photoshopped in. It was a minor embarrassment after the story was […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Mike Fasano represented Pasco County in the Florida Legislature 19 years before being appointed tax collector in 2013 by Gov. Rick Scott. Having spent almost an equal amount of time between both chambers, he says there’s a vast gulf of difference between the two GOP-controlled bodies in Tallahassee as far as independence, philosophy, and temperament. “In […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Try as it might to Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet, the controversy over the handling of former FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey isn’t going away. This morning the conservative editorial page of the Tampa Tribune weighed in, writing that, “Gov. Rick Scott is sorely mistaken if he thinks a steady stream of press releases […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Marco Rubio may or may not make a full fledged run at the presidency, but he’s certainly flirting with the possibility, and like some other GOP candidates, has been talking more about economic inequality than ever before as he touts his new book, “American Dream.” But Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant says that while […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 20, 2015

Happy Friday to y’all. So much to talk about in the news this morning … The Tampa Bay Times’ flooded the zone in December with a series of disturbing stories about New Beginnings of Tampa, one of the city’s largest homeless charities, which for years has made money off its residents through its controversial “work therapy” program. The […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 19, 2015

To its supporters, it was a case of justice delayed but not denied, when on Thursday the Florida Board of Governor in Tallahassee unanimously recommended the state provide $57 million to USF to move its medical center to downtown Tampa. The next step in the process for the $153 million center to house the Morsani […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.23.15 — Florida officials get serious with health prison health care

New Jeb Bush web ad attacks Obama’s foreign policy

New Jeb Bush web ad attacks Obama's foreign policy

Tampa citizen files complaint about Jackie Toledo’s use of Tampa seal in campaign photo

Tampa citizen files complaint about Jackie Toledo's use of Tampa seal in campaign photo

At Tampa Tiger Bay, Mike Fasano says GOP leadership’s rein too tight on state House

First Amendment Foundation wants special prosecutor to investigate Rick Scott, Baileygate

FDP Chair criticizes Marco Rubio, but says needs more time to review his current statements

Mitch Perry Report for 2.20.15 — On Rudy, Rick and DWS

State BOG all in for USF med school move to downtown Tampa