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Mitch PerryOctober 25, 2016

Attention political junkies: not every voter pays attention to politics until right before the election, which is why that ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee “dramatizing” David Jolly standing with Donald Trump was so egregious. The ad — one of the most controversial of any produced this season in American politics — was immediately denounced by the Jolly campaign, who […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2016

Chris Wallace has been laying low over the past week, bypassing his normal turn as host of Fox News Sunday as he prepared to host tonight’s final presidential debate from the Thomas & Mack Center on the University of Las Vegas campus (though a photo of his mug continues to be prominently featured on virtually every Fox […]

Mitch PerryOctober 18, 2016

Amy Schumer isn’t the only major comic whose liberal schtick ended up alienating some Tampa residents who coughed up big money for a night’s entertainment. In 2003 Bill Maher gave an eviscerating takedown of George W. Bush at the Straz Theatre (still known then simply as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center). It was just months […]

Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2016

The real news is out there — you just have to search for it. While the increasingly dysfunctional presidential election grips/horrifies the nation, there are things happening in the world that U.S. citizens should be aware of — such as our involvement in Yemen. On Thursday, the U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes to knock out three […]

Mitch PerryOctober 12, 2016

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(UPDATE) There are just 16 counties in the U.S. — or one half of one percent — that imposed five or more death sentences between 2010 and 2015, and, according to a new report, four of them are in Florida — Hillsborough, Pinellas, Miami-Dade, and Duval. The Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project’s report notes these “outlier counties” are plagued by […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2016

#NeverTrump conservatives in Florida have one less option to choose for president in November now. Evan McMullin, a 40-year-old former CIA official from Utah, has been proposed as a conservative alternative to Trump. He was the nominee of the Independent Party in Florida, but has been removed from the ballot by the Florida Division of […]

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

Good Monday morning to you all. While the U.S. media will be focused intently on Hillary Clinton‘s health, there’s another issue taking place today that deserves close observation — the tentative truce between the warring factions that’s supposed to happen in Syria tonight at sundown. The truce was announced last last week between Russia and the U.S., and […]

Mitch PerryAugust 5, 2016

For those of you excited about the Summer Olympics, now is your time. Comcast says it will be broadcasting 6,800 hours of programming on 11 channels, and “up to” 41 live streams. So they’ve got you covered. The NFL also returns this weekend — sort of — with the Hall of Fame ceremonies from Canton, Ohio taking […]

Mitch PerryJune 23, 2016

Forgive us for not being too coherent, having stayed up until the early morning hours today watching the Hillsborough County MPO’s discussion of the TBX project until 2:20 a.m.this morning. You can read our account here. Although the huge news in Florida Politics yesterday morning was Marco Rubio‘s re-entry into a Senate race he said he […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 10.25.16 — DCCC ad linking Trump to Jolly goes away, but has the damage been done?

Mitch Perry Report for 10.19.16 — Will Chris Wallace find debate fodder in WikiLeaks?

Mitch Perry Report for 10.18.16 — Amy Schumer not the 1st libe

Mitch Perry Report for 10.14.16 — Mission creep in Yemen?

New report says Hillsborough and Pinellas County are outliers nationally in calling for death penalty

Mitch Perry Report for 9.15.16 — One less #NeverTrump option for president in Florida

Mitch Perry Report for 9.13.16 — Florida’s Supreme Court is about to get a little more conservative

Mitch Perry Report for 9.12.16 — Will this Syrian ceasefire hold?

Mitch Perry Report for 8.5.16 — Rio or bust

Mitch Perry Report for 6.23.16 — Another story on Patrick Murphy enhancing his resume