Tag: Katherine Harris

Mitch PerryMarch 7, 2017

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Historically, the Secretary of State in Florida was elected by the public, but that changed in 1998, when constitutional changes removed that position from the elected Cabinet of the executive branch. Now, 19 years later, Fernandina Beach Republican Sen. Aaron Bean wants to bring that position back into the Cabinet. At the Senate Committee on Ethics and […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 22, 2017
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Bill Nelson isn’t running for re-election for another year, but it’s never too early to start the campaign against him. That’s what the National Republican Senate Committee is doing this week, unveiling a new digital ad campaign to inform Florida voters of what they call Nelson’s “liberal record” in Washington, comparing his Senate voting record to […]

Mitch PerryJuly 15, 2016
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Although many polls show the presidential election could go either way, the Democratic candidates in Florida’s Senate District 19 and House District 70 at Friday’s Suncoast Tiger Bay Club meeting say they can’t fathom an America with Donald Trump leading the nation. “There are 45 million Republicans in this country, and that’s the best they […]

Mitch PerryNovember 13, 2015
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Last Saturday as promised, Marco Rubio released American Express statements from 2005 and 2006, responding to questions about his use of that card that belonged to the Republican Party of Florida, saying that only eight of the charges were for personal expenses and that he had paid them off personally. The controversy has dogged Rubio on […]

Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2015
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Bill Nelson is now cancer-free after successful prostate surgery Monday, according to Emily Rogers, the Senator’s deputy press secretary. Officials representing the 72-year-old Florida legislator announced on Thursday that Nelson had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that doctors would treat it surgically. “Bill wants to thank all the people in Florida and elsewhere who sent prayers and well […]

Martin DyckmanMay 18, 2014

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 Suppose that Gov. Rick Scott cancelled an election and announced that he, not the voters, would select their new state senator or representative. That hasn’t happened–yet. But something of the same nature is happening with a circuit judgeship in Jacksonville. It doesn’t pass the smell test either. The six-year term of Donald Moran, presently the […]


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