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Washington PostFebruary 23, 2018

The governor is planning to roll out his legislative proposal Friday that, according to a spokesman, will be “aimed at keeping Florida schools safe and keeping firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people.” With Florida now at the epicenter of a fast-changing national gun debate, the state’s Republican governor is so far refusing […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 22, 2018

On the debate over assault rifle bans, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King believes the Florida Legislature is a bunch of cowards. With the eyes of the nation on them, the GOP-led state House blocked a move by Democrats Tuesday to debate a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines in Florida, six days after a massacre […]

Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2018

If the crowd at Wednesday night’s gun discussion at the BB&T Center in Sunrise was indicative of more than just a normally Democratic community now suffering from one of the most horrific school massacres in history, then Republicans such as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and staunch 2nd Amendment advocates can find little place there. In […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 21, 2018

Kathy Castor was part of a six-member group of Democratic members of Congress visiting Cuba over the past few days, but the delegation shrank to five this week when meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro. “I came back to Tampa on Tuesday, ” Castor said in a phone call Wednesday afternoon before the rest of […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 21, 2018

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What kind of vermin would say two Parkland students grieving from last week’s massacre at their high school were really actors who were being paid to make gun owners look bad? I think we can all agree this represents the lowest of the low. Well, apparently not “all” of us. Helping spread that lie is […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 19, 2018

For Presidents Day, activists in downtown St. Petersburg rallied to criticize congressional Republicans who they say have been silent or actively working to end special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller laid out charges Friday against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities in a sweeping indictment describing in […]

Danny McAuliffeFebruary 19, 2018

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Gov. Rick Scott will not attend a CNN-hosted town hall discussion with students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, their family members and the surrounding community. The reason? Scott’s staff said the governor will be busy in Tallahassee addressing the issue of student safety. “With only three weeks left of our annual legislative session, Governor Rick […]

Danny McAuliffeFebruary 15, 2018

Florida Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson told his colleagues on the Senate floor Thursday that they shouldn’t shy away from addressing gun control measures in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. “To those who say now that it’s not the time to talk about gun violence because it’s too soon, we don’t […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 15, 2018

Gun control? That’s a laugh, given the culture of political complicity created by the National Rifle Association. In the alternate universe in which NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and his army of lawmakers throughout live, more guns “make America safe and free.” That’s what he said before the NRA’s 2013 meeting in Houston. Safe? I wonder […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2018

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Sen. Marco Rubio discussed the latest mass shooting on Fox and Friends Thursday. Former student Nicolas Cruz killed 17 people with an AR-15 Wednesday, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Rubio said that when an “individual decides in a premeditated and orchestrated way” to do something like this, “it can happen anywhere.” “There was a running joke […]

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Rick Scott stays in sync with the NRA as he faces a reckoning on guns

Chris King: Legislature ‘cowardly’ for running from assault rifle ban

CNN Parkland town hall crowd expresses powerful gun-control message

Kathy Castor hopes U.S. can learn truth about diplomat injuries in Cuba

Joe Henderson: Only lowest of low would spread lies about Parkland students

Activists call out Donald Trump’s ‘Cover up Caucus’ on Russian investigation

Rick Scott will skip CNN town hall, workshop student safety instead

Bill Nelson: ‘Let’s get these assault weapons off our streets’

Joe Henderson: Gun control? Politicians make sure we don’t have a prayer

Marco Rubio on Parkland massacre: ‘It can happen anywhere’