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Guest AuthorMay 15, 2016

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less,” said Humpty Dumpty in “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll. A perplexed Alice responded, “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” Politicians using language to mean many things is […]

Mitch PerryMay 14, 2016

Ron DeSantis says that while he always opposed the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran last year, he thought at worst they were simply naive about the Iranian regime. But after comments made last week by a top White House adviser on the marketing of the proposal, “it was all a fraud,” he said. “Basically this deal […]

Mitch PerryMay 13, 2016

Well, so much for that much-anticipated San Antonio-Golden State NBA Western Final. Congrats to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who took down the Spurs in six. Gotta love the unexpected. Today the Republican Party of Florida hosts the first of a two-day spring meeting in Tampa. I just realized the Republicans always hold these type of […]

Peter SchorschMay 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Florida finance team has a dynamo group of under 30 workers. The trio of Stefanie Sass, Billie Islam and Jonathan Stewart are raising big bucks for Clinton in the sunshine state. Sass, the deputy finance director for Florida, cut her teeth working for former Congressman Joe Garcia and as a field organizer for […]

guestMay 11, 2016

The 2016 presidential election cycle thus far has been a study in frustrated attempts to analyze and understand a larger shift among the voting public. We saw it a year ago, when the conventional wisdom saw Jeb Bush emerging on the GOP side to take on Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. “Not another Bush/Clinton […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

Citing polls conducted by Quinnipiac University which show Hillary Clinton in trouble in the swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio against Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders’ campaign came out swinging on Wednesday, declaring in a fundraising email that the Vermont senator is the best bet to ensure a Trump loss in the fall. “We cannot have […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

Tim Canova, the insurgent Democratic opponent to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Florida Congressional District 23 race, says he’s poised to officially post that he’s raised more than $1 million in his race to date. Canova raised more than $558,000 in the first three months of the year since announcing his candidacy […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

For the last week, the political news media has been obsessed with the likely Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton general election confrontation. Although he has been the front-runner throughout 2016, Trump’s big victory over Ted Cruz in Indiana last week prompted Cruz and John Kasich to quit the race, and by last Wednesday, Trump was your GOP […]

Mitch PerryMay 11, 2016

Although David Jolly has at times been ambiguous regarding his support (or lack thereof) for Donald Trump, his Senate campaign manager insists he’s never considered voting for Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential nominee this November. At issue is a Facebook posting by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Tampa Bay, which posted a story May […]

Steve VancoreMay 10, 2016

How do we interpret the latest offering from Quinnipiac University showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a dead heat? For those who do not know me or what I look like, allow me to offer you a brief description. I am about 6” tall, have killer abs, a full head of hair and possessed with […]

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