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Mitch PerryJune 13, 2016

St. Pete Pride Festival officials say as of now, no major changes are planned for Pride weekend events scheduled to take place June 24-26, in the wake of the gun shooting massacre that occurred early Sunday morning at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. “No single act of hate can detour us from coming together as […]

Mitch PerryJune 13, 2016

Tampa Bay area Rep. Kathy Castor says when she returns to Congress Monday night, there’s likely to be a moment of silence on behalf of the 49 people killed in an Orlando LGBT nightclub on Sunday morning. But she says the times call for something bigger than that. “I’m pretty tired of having moments of silence without […]

Mitch PerryJune 8, 2016

There are now calls for an independent investigation into Pam Bondi‘s decision not to investigate consumer complaints against Trump University, the for-profit education company created by Donald Trump that ran a real estate training program from 2005 until at least 2010 — and not just from Democrats. “Attorney General Pam Bondi owes Floridians a full accounting of […]

Mitch PerryJune 7, 2016

Carlos Beruff takes a tough line on President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with the Cuban government, but just a few years ago appeared to be a strong advocate that just such a diplomatic breakthrough was desperately needed. On the day the two nations announced they were resuming relations, the Bradenton Herald reported the Manatee County home developer and now Republican U.S. […]

Mitch PerryJune 1, 2016

My colleague Jim Rosica has a piece up this morning entitled, “Did Adam Putnam just launch the first ad of the 2018 gubernatorial campaign?” Check it out and decide for yourself whether indeed that’s the case. What’s truly not in dispute is that the 41-year-old Agriculture commissioner has been THE guy referred to by seemingly everyone […]

Mitch PerryMay 31, 2016

Although Florida’s 14th Congressional District isn’t nearly as solidly a Democratic seat as it was a year ago, nobody expects incumbent Kathy Castor to have any trouble holding onto it this November. Redistricting ordered by the Florida Supreme Court last year led the Florida Legislature to draw up the seat that now makes it a Democratic […]

Mitch PerryMay 27, 2016

The somewhat improbable Tampa Bay Lightning run for a second straight appearance in the Stanley Cup ended last night around 11 p.m. when they lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals to the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2-1. The Lightning were pretty thoroughly outplayed if you go by shots-on-goal, but the last eight minutes or so […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2016

Tampa Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor is endorsing St. Petersburg-based attorney Ben Diamond in the campaign for the open House District 68 seat. “Ben is a strong leader on issues that matter to us in Tampa Bay,” Castor said in a statement released by the Diamond campaign on Thursday. “Ben’s work on the Florida Water and […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2016

Could the Republican Party really be serious about rejiggering the primary calendar, as has reported in places like the New York Times and the Boston Globe earlier this week? We’ve heard a lot in the past few weeks how presidential politics have been changed — perhaps forever — by the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. […]

Mitch PerryMay 25, 2016

While members of Congress continue to demand answers to exceedingly long lines at some of the nation’s airports, Tampa-area Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor is calling the long lines forming at the Tampa International Airport’s post office recently to get passports “unacceptable.” “It is not unusual for individuals and families to wait all day at that location […]

Tag: Kathy Castor

St. Pete Pride organizers say they won’t be deterred

Kathy Castor says she’s weary of having moments of silence in gun tragedies without any action to follow

Mitch Perry Report for 6.8.16 — Common Cause Florida calls for Pam Bondi to come clean

Carlos Beruff visited Cuba with group dedicated to ending sanctions in 2011

Mitch Perry Report for 6.1.16 — Let the 2018 GOP gubernatorial chatter begin

Eddie Adams Jr. and Christine Quinn battle it out in GOP CD 14 contest

Mitch Perry Report for 5.27.16 — Lightning strikes no more

Kathy Castor is backing Ben Diamond over Eric Lynn in HD 68 race

Mitch Perry Report for 5.26.16 – How much will the political parties change after this year?

Kathy Castor tells John Kerry lines to get passports at TPA post office are ‘unacceptable’