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Ryan RayFebruary 3, 2015

With Mitt Romney out and Hillary Clinton looking like the most prohibitive primary favorite in recent memory, Jeb Bush’s top campaign aide roles have become key elements of the 2016 speculative fray. Former press secretary to Dick Cheney and Republican political consultant Juleanna Glovere reasons that the former Florida governor is likely to pick women to fill top leadership […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 3, 2015

Showing once again that she’s determined to make a mark on the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit board, member Kathleen Shanahan expressed frustration today that she wasn’t aware of any financial requests that the transit agency had made of its local legislative delegation, a month before the 2015 legislative session in Tallahassee. “I feel like we’re going […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 3, 2015

Showing once again that she’s determined to make a mark on the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit board, member Kathleen Shanahan expressed frustration today that she wasn’t aware of any financial requests that the transit agency had made of its local legislative delegation, a month before the 2015 legislative session in Tallahassee. “I feel like we’re going […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 6, 2015

With all due respect to all of the people who will be attending Governor Rick Scott’s inauguration later this morning, the speech by the recently reelected Republican is not the biggest story in Florida today. No, there have been inaugurations before and there will be again. But for the first time in the history of […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 6, 2015

With all due respect to all of the people who will be attending Governor Rick Scott’s inauguration later this morning, the speech by the recently reelected Republican is not the biggest story in Florida today. No, there have been inaugurations before and there will be again. But for the first time in the history of […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2015

Being the Secretary of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority doesn’t come with many frills. The main job of this particular position is that he or she will preside over all board meeting in the absence of both the chair and vice chair. In other words, it’s heavily symbolic. But the question of who was […]

Julie DelegalOctober 5, 2014

Duval County School board member Jason Fischer is a nice young man. But in politics, I’ve learned, it’s the nice young men you have to watch. His most recent actions reveal that he’s a foot soldier in the war to destroy public education. And his bread may be getting buttered by lieutenants in the Jeb-Bush-brand, […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.6.15 – Florida's big news day

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