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Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2017
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Scott Furhman, the South Florida Democrat who ran in 2016 against Illena Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th Congressional District and considered running again this cycle, is endorsing state Representative David Richardson in next year’s contest. “David is the kind of Democratic standard-bearer we need in this race right now,” Furhman said Thursday in a statement issued […]

Mitch PerryJune 6, 2017
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Miami Beach House Democrat David Richardson will run for the Congressional District 27 seat being vacated next year by Republican Illeana Ros-Lehtinen. Richardson has served in the Florida House since 2012, when he became the first openly-gay lawmaker elected in Florida. He had been considering entering the race after Ros-Lehtinen announced in late April that she would step […]

Mitch PerryApril 30, 2017
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Democratic hopes to retake the House in 2018 received a boost Sunday, with the announcement that longtime South Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will not run for re-election. “There was no epiphany. There was no moment, nothing that has happened that I’ve said, “I’ve got to move on,’” Ros-Lehtinen, who represents Florida’s 27th Congressional District, told […]

Mitch PerryApril 12, 2017

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Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution condemning the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria, angering Boca Raton U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch. The resolution, which was being pushed by the U.S, Britain and France, aimed to bolster support for international inquiries into last week’s deadly toxic gas attack in Syria. It was the eighth time that Russia has vetoed […]

Mitch PerryApril 3, 2017
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Democrat Scott Fuhrman intends once again to run against longtime Miami Republican Illeana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th Congressional District in 2018. “I will be the voice for families across Miami-Dade who are united in saying that the time has come for change in District 27,” Fuhrman said in a statement issued Monday. “I am running for Congress because […]

Mitch PerryMarch 2, 2017
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Acts of anti-Semitism are up radically this year. Since January 1, there has been an estimated 100 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers around the nation, and last week 170 headstones were tipped at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis and 100 more vandalized at a cemetery in Philadelphia. On Thursday, the co-chairs of the congressional Bipartisan […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 27, 2017
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In Philadelphia, police were trying to identify the vandals who knocked over or damaged at least 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Monday, while bomb threats forced the evacuations of Jewish Community Centers in New York and in 10 other states. With the number of anti-Semitic criminal offenses increasing, a bipartisan group of eight U.S. House […]


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