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Mitch PerrySeptember 26, 2016

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A progressive advocacy group that doesn’t want any significant changes to Social Security announced on Monday they’ll be targeting Florida Senator Marco Rubio and other Republicans. Americans United for Change announced Monday a six-figure, five-state ‘Hands Off My Social Security!’ campaign “to prevent a surprise attack after the November election” on Social Security, and Alison Morano will […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 26, 2016

Another day, another poll showing a close race between Rep. Patrick Murphy and Sen. Marco Rubio. The Florida Chamber Political Institute released a new poll Monday that showed Rubio and Murphy were locked into a tight race. The survey found Rubio was at 46 percent, while Murphy was at 42 percent. Eleven percent of Floridians […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 26, 2016

With this being a presidential election year, when Democrats historically show up in greater numbers at the polls, the Florida Democratic Party is targeting several key legislative races in Hillsborough County which they hope to flip from red to blue. One of them is the House District 59 seat in Eastern Hillsborough County currently held by Dover Republican Ross […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016

The U.S. Presidential election returns to Florida’s I-4 corridor early next week, with Donald Trump speaking at a rally at Orlando Melbourne International Airport on Tuesday at 7 p.m.. The GOP presidential nominee’s appearance will come less than 24 hours after he and Hillary Clinton engage in the first of their three scheduled debates before the November 8 election. The trip is another occasion […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 24, 2016

Marco Rubio delivered the Weekly Republican Address on Saturday. It addressed some very familiar themes, served a couple of key rhetorical purposes, and managed to avoid the Donald Trump question all together. Rather, it focused on a very narrow window of time, hermetically sealed from the presidential election: the next four months; the time until the current president […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2016

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Two Florida unions are attacking Marco Rubio about his priorities in a new television ad that begins airing Friday in Tampa and Orlando. AFSCME PEOPLE and AFT Solidarity have gone in on the $1.3 million ad buy, which will run through the end of the month. “What are Marco Rubio’s priorities?” a narrator says as the ad […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

A recent poll showed that Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy has some work to do to build up his name recognition amongst Florida’s Latino voters. A recent Univision News survey showed that 6 in 10 Hispanic voters don’t know who he is. In an attempt to change that equation, the Murphy camp announced on Thursday that they have hired Freddy […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 22, 2016

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Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson don’t agree on everything. But when it comes to the horrors of the HUD-funded properties in Florida that are owned currently by Global Ministries Foundation, they presented a united from Thursday in a Senate subcommittee meeting on “Oversight of the HUD Inspection Process.” Both Rubio and Nelson have visited GMF properties […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is the most latest Florida lawmaker calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate St. Petersburg’s sewage crisis. “It is important that residents know if their City leadership turned a blind eye towards the inevitability of a sewage spill at the cost of the local waterways and beaches,” Rubio writes in a […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

The U.S. House on Wednesday passed Sarasota Republican Vern Buchanan’s bipartisan legislation to aid Florida orange growers in their battle against the predatory citrus greening disease. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate for consideration. Buchanan’s Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act will make it less costly for growers to replace trees damaged by citrus greening, an incurable bacterial disease […]

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Alison Morano to lead Florida campaign challenging Marco Rubio on Social Security

Florida Chamber poll shows Marco Rubio at 46%, Patrick Murphy at 42%

Ross Spano feels confident about challenge to retain his HD 59 seat in Hillsborough County

Donald Trump to return to Central Florida less than 24 hours after Monday night’s debate

What Marco Rubio said and didn’t say in the Weekly Republican Address

Florida unions team up to blast Marco Rubio’s priorities in new ad airing in Tampa and Orlando

Patrick Murphy hires Barack Obama’s 2008 Hispanic media manager to aid his campaign

In subcommittee, Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson spotlight Florida HUD horrors

Marco Rubio latest lawmaker to call for the EPA to investigate St. Petersburg sewage issue

House passes Vern Buchanan’s bill to aid Florida orange farms in their battle against citrus greening