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Mitch PerrySeptember 17, 2015

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Speaking on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, Marco Rubio defended his remarks in Wednesday night’s presidential debate about missing more votes than anyone else this year in the Senate. “When there is a vote that’s meaningful and serious, we are there and doing our job,” he told the cable new network’s morning show. Hours later, […]

Frank TorresSeptember 17, 2015

Wednesday night, the Seminole County Republican Executive Committee held a watch party for the second GOP presidential debate in Casselberry. A straw poll followed the three-hour affair, which laid out clear favorites among viewers in one of Florida’s most consistently Republican counties. Participants liked former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who made her first appearance among top-tiered candidates. She […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 17, 2015

Whatever you think about who “won” or “lost” Wednesday night’s debate extravaganza from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, can even the most ardent political junkies agree that nearly five hours of presidential debates maybe a bit too much to handle? My God, that show needed an editor. By the time the question about […]

Gary FineoutSeptember 17, 2015

Florida Rep. Richard Corcoran, soon to become one of the most powerful people in state government, delivered a fiery speech Wednesday promising sweeping changes in everything from schools to legislative ethics and how long judges can stay on the bench. Corcoran, a lawyer and one time top aide to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio when Rubio […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 16, 2015

The race for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat remains pretty much undefined with the candidates largely unknown and “undecided” voters leading the polling on the Democratic and Republican sides, according to Public Policy Polling’s new poll. A 39 percent plurality of voters are undecided, with Alan Grayson polling at 33 percent to Patrick Murphy‘s 27 percent, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 16, 2015

Sam Rashid is still a member of the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, despite that by doing so, he is directly snubbing Gov. Rick Scott, the man who appointed him to the agency last year and is now calling on him to resign from the board. “Governor Scott expects him to resign and […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

Los Angeles Democratic U.S. Rep. Xavier Bacerra warns GOP presidential candidates in Wednesday night’s CNN debate that they should stop copying Donald Trump‘s rhetoric that slurs Latino-Americans. A Mexican-American, Becerra says it’s disappointing how other GOP presidential candidates have become more “Trump-lite” as the financier continues to dominate the polls. “It looks like now that […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

The latest Public Policy Poll survey released Tuesday shows that, as is the case in virtually every other poll in the country right now, Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the top two favorites of Republican presidential primary voters in Florida, more than four months before the first votes start counting. Trump and Carson’s […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

A new survey in Florida shows 47 percent of voters want Jeb Bush to drop out of the GOP presidential race, and 48 percent would prefer Marco Rubio do the same. Those numbers come tucked inside a new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, which shows that Donald Trump continues to lead all Republican candidates in Florida with 28 […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

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One of the reasons why many people thought that Jeb Bush would be the man to beat for the Republican nomination for president was his ability to raise a lot of money from the donors class. Early on in his campaign, advisers talked about a “shock and awe” fundraising strategy that would blow away virtually […]

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Marco Rubio says he’ll show up in Senate when vote is “meaningful”

Seminole Republicans favor Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump after 2nd GOP debate

Mitch Perry Report for 9.17.15 – The good, bad and ugly from Simi Valley

Next House speaker: Legislators the enemy, promises change

Alan Grayson 33%, Patrick Murphy 27%, new poll of U.S. Senate race finds

Mitch Perry Report for 9.16.15 – Sam Rashid ignores Rick Scott’s call to step down

Latino congressman urges GOP candidates to drop “Trump-lite” charade

Donald Trump, Ben Carson first and second in latest Florida presidential poll

PPP poll: plurality of Floridians want Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to drop to out

Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC starts spending its cash on ads in 3 early voting states