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Mitch PerryFebruary 22, 2017

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Being a Democratic Senator up for re-election in 2018 and living in a state won by Donald Trump last fall means that Bill Nelson is going to be getting a lot of attention over the next year and a half from groups supporting Republican causes. On Wednesday, TV ads began running on cable news networks […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 8, 2017

Morris Communications, the parent company of the Florida Times-Union and the St. Augustine Record, launched a right-wing website recently. (Note: the headline is not redundant, so save your jokes.) The company, which created a kerfuffle last year by endorsing Donald Trump as an “agent of change” in the T-U and other corporate properties, has doubled down on its […]

Joe HendersonOctober 14, 2016

As we approach the home stretch of ShameFest 2016 — otherwise known as the election — we should take a moment to ponder one of the great moments the last time the nation chose a president. It was election night 2012 and Fox News, accurately as it turned out, declared President Barack Obama had won […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 11, 2015

So the field is set for the two GOP debates scheduled for next Wednesday night in Simi Valley – and they’re the exact same line-ups as were displayed in Cleveland last month, with two exceptions. One is that Carly Florina, who became the darling of the media following her impressive debate performance in the “Happy […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015

Conventional wisdom among some pundits (and Florida Democrats) is that U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy is more viable in a general election Senate contest in Florida in 2016 than his most prominent Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson. The fire-breathing Grayson is a hero to progressives in the Sunshine State and nationally for his take-no-prisoners attitude […]

Ryan RayAugust 7, 2015

In an ironic reversal of fortune, a tough and ideological primary process is threatening to divide Democrats as they pursue swing Senate seats like that one abdicated by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio in 2016, writes Alex Roarty in National Journal. In a quartet of key battlegrounds, Democrats are bracing for bitter primaries that party leaders worry […]

Mitch PerryMay 5, 2015

Monday night in Miami, Alan Gross, an American citizen held in Cuba by the Castro-led government for five years, spoke at the inaugural fundraiser for New Cuba PAC, a political action committee created to push for the end of the 53-year U.S. economic embargo against the communist island nation. “It was a magical night,” said […]

Mitch PerryMarch 12, 2015

The other day Mason-Dixon did a poll on the 2016 Florida U.S. Senate race, and its content was somewhat pedestrian. Pedestrian in the respect that it only put forth four names: Marco Rubio and Jeff Atwater for the Republicans; Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Murphy for the Democrats. With more than a year and a half until the […]

Ryan RayFebruary 5, 2015

Jeb Bush‘s political team is headed up by North Florida’s own Sally Bradshaw, who as Jason Horowitz writes in the New York Times is no stranger to the terrain: If Karl Rove was known as the charismatic George W. Bush’s brain, Ms. Bradshaw is the brainier Bush’s muscle. As Jeb Bush’s facilitator, enforcer and sounding board for 20 years, […]

Martin DyckmanJuly 9, 2014

Among the flock of on-line petitions I declined to sign last week was one calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Much as I and others might wish them gone and forgotten, impeachment is a terrible idea. The merits aside, it […]

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Bill Nelson now targeted by group calling for his vote to repeal, replace ACA

Florida Times-Union writer featured on Morris Communications right-wing website

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American Crossroads takes aim at Patrick Murphy in attack email

U.S. Senate tables turn against Florida Democrats

Engage Cuba group starts effort to end U.S. sanctions

Mitch Perry Report for 3.12.15 — Charlie Crist for Senate?

The woman who put Mitt Romney 2016 in a bind: Sally Bradshaw leads Team Jeb

Martin Dyckman: We should limit terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years