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Ryan RayMay 7, 2015

The Florida Democratic Party on Thursday announced it will bring Brice Barnes on board to be the party’s new finance director. Barnes comes to Florida after years working in North Carolina in similar roles with U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan — who lost her pivotal swing state Senate seat to Sen. Thom Tillis in November during a difficult midterm […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 7, 2015

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is looking towards 2018, as the Florida Democrat sent an email fundraising blast on Thursday that shows he may not be ready to give up quite yet, despite speculation he will not seek re-election. In the email, Nelson decries the loss of “some really good common-sense senators” in last year’s election […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 6, 2014

It can no longer be said that the country is going to hell. We have arrived. The worst disappointment isn’t the re-election of the kleptocrat Rick Scott, or U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s defeat by a Koch stooge in North Carolina, or even the fact that Ted Cruz is now running amok in a Senate majority. […]

Martin DyckmanApril 6, 2014

Running for re-election in 1974, Gov. Reubin Askew limited his contributions to $300 per person — no more than $100 for each of the three phases of the campaign. The law allowed $9,000. Sen. Lawton Chiles went one better when he ran for re-election in 1976. He restricted his contributions to $10 a pop, or […]

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