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Scott PowersJune 28, 2016

The reason is becoming apparent why so many Republican U.S. Senate candidates got out of the race when Sen. Marco Rubio decided last week to seek re-election. In a straw poll at the Seminole County Republican Executive Committee Monday night, Rubio crushed his lone remaining high-profile Republican opponent, Bradenton businessman Carlos Beruff. In voting tallied […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

Newly-entered Democratic congressional candidate Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park has quickly drawn support from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for her challenge to Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. DCCC Chairman and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico announced Friday Murphy would be added to the PAC’s Red to Blue program, which […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica has gotten a primary opponent in his bid for a 13th term representing Orange and Seminole Counties in Congress. Mica, of Winter Park, will face Mark Busch, a Casselberry businessman who was once served as vice chairman of the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District, for Florida’s 7th Congressional […]

Scott PowersJune 23, 2016

Rollins College business professor and former Department of Defense analyst Stephanie Murphy has filed to run for Congress as a Democrat in the Seminole County-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The last-moment entry of Murphy 37, of Winter Park, gives the Democrats something they have been beating the bushes for all year, a credible candidate to […]

Mitch PerryJune 15, 2016

Tom Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a bipartisan group of Florida’s members of Congress on Wednesday that his agency lacks adequate funding to contend with the Zika virus, and that a vaccine “will take years to develop.” Frieden called the virus “unprecedented,” in its development, saying,”never before have we […]

Scott PowersJune 7, 2016

Monday’s first day of qualifying for congressional races in Florida has seen enough candidates qualify to force Republican primaries in Florida’s 6th, 7th and 11th Congressional Districts and Democratic primaries in the 6th and 9th Congressional Districts so far. In other districts expecting Democratic or Republican primaries, announced candidates either did not file Monday or […]

Peter SchorschMay 19, 2016

U.S. Rep. John Mica is under fire from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which blasted him for supporting the “#PartyofTrump” in a Thursday email. “Last night, John Mica not only voted in favor of targeting LGBT Americans and allowing our military officers to be trained under the Confederate flag, he and his reckless Republican colleagues […]

Scott PowersMay 2, 2016

Democratic Florida state Rep. Victor Torres of Orlando called Monday on Winter Park Republican John Mica to do more to help the island and Puerto Ricans as the U.S. territory defaults Monday on its $422 million bond payment, potentially plunging into a new level of economic crisis. “For all of our citizens, this is a […]

Mitch PerryApril 28, 2016

GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan chaired a Florida congressional delegation meeting on Thursday that focused on the spiraling death toll caused by heroin and opioid abuse throughout the state. Buchanan has a vested interest in the subject, with Manatee County, which he represents in Congress, having suffered more heroin overdose deaths per capita than any other Florida county in 2014. […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 25, 2016

CD-7 Rep. John Mica appears likely to sail toward re-election, but in Washington, D.C., the North-Central Florida Republican is less popular. The Washington City Paper took issue with Mica last week, calling him a “District-bashing Congressman [who] doesn’t pay his own taxes on time,” a response to Mica’s opposition to federal funding for its faltering Metro system. […]

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Debate party at Sports Grill Kendall. Image via AP.

Marco Rubio, John Mica, crush opponents in Seminole GOP straw poll

Stephanie Murphy named to DCCC ‘Red to Blue’ program in CD 7 race

John Mica faces GOP primary in CD 7, while Dem Stephanie Murphy awaits qualifying

Stephanie Murphy files to run against John Mica in CD 7

Florida congressional delegation hears more of coming Zika threat

Early congressional filings assure primaries in CDs 6, 7, 9 and 11

Democrats blast John Mica for supporting #PartyofTrump

Victor Torres calls on John Mica to ‘step up’ and support Puerto Rico

Florida congressional delegation gets update on heroin crisis

Report: Tax trouble for John Mica?