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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2016

Florida Gov. Rick Scott spent much of the last week clearing debris created by a storm that hit the Tallahassee area. This week, he turns his attention, again, to a storm not of his making. Scott finds himself flying up to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to address a familiar topic: the lack of federal help for the […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 13, 2016

Another day, another TV ad raising questions about Patrick Murphy’s credentials. Marco Rubio released a new ad aimed at Murphy and allegations he embellished his resume. In June, CBS Miami ran a two-part report where it revealed he did not meet the minimum requirements to become a CPA in Florida and wasn’t a small business […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 13, 2016

Labor Day has come and gone, and with it, any sense of the summer doldrums. Election Day is nigh. The most tumultuous election season in a generation is now heading into the homestretch. So once again, let’s ask some questions, the answers to which may hold the fate of the state, and even the nation. How bad will the […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 13, 2016

During the 2014 gubernatorial race, selecting Supreme Court justices was a campaign issue between Rick Scott and Charlie Crist. Though Florida’s executive and legislative branches have been fiercely conservative for going on nearly two decades now, the judiciary has not, though that slowly could be changing. On Monday, Justice James E.C. Perry, the fourth black ever […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 12, 2016

Patrick Murphy and Marco Rubio announced Monday they would debate three times and participate in a separate campaign forum, bringing an end to speculation Murphy was reluctant to engage in debates with the GOP Senate incumbent. However, there’s still a dispute about how many events they will actually have, because Rubio says two of the events have ties to Murphy supporters. […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 12, 2016

Americans for Prosperity-Florida is launching a direct mail campaign attacking Rep. Patrick Murphy. The conservative organization announced Monday it launched a statewide campaign opposing Murphy in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. The direct mail campaign comes just one week after AFP-Florida unveiled a digital ad targeting the Treasure Coast Democrat over his support of the Affordable […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 12, 2016

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A new poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton in the Sunshine State. The automated poll conducted by JMC Analytics and Polling showed Trump was at 46 percent. Clinton, the poll found, was at 42 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson received 3 percent support, followed by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, with 1 percent. Eight percent […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 10, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio ended the week with a trip to Riviera Beach, where he again called attention to the tenement conditions in a Global Ministries Foundation property. Rubio, who has made multiple visits to Jacksonville over the last year calling attention to longstanding issues at Eureka Garden, made a similar visit to Stonybrook Apartments, a Section […]

Phil AmmannSeptember 9, 2016

In an abrupt move, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee delayed its first week of television ads in Florida’s Senate race, originally scheduled for later this month. Ads supporting Democrat Patrick Murphy were initially supposed to run Sept. 20-26. According to a top Republican super-PAC, we now know why. Citing a report from the Columbus Dispatch, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 9, 2016

Donald Trump is doing better with the Latino vote in Florida than he is nationally, according to a new poll released on Friday. Hillary Clinton leads Trump, 62* percent to 27 percent in the Sunshine State, according to a new poll of 400 Latino Floridians taken by the group Latino Decisions late last month. Of the […]

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