Jacob OglesAugust 2, 2023
4min0
Mel Sembler, Carlos Beruff are among the national Chairs. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio hold Honorary Chair status.
Tag: Mel SemblerCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Jacob OglesAugust 2, 2023
Peter SchorschFebruary 17, 2022
10min0
Sembler died Wednesday surrounded by her family.
A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2018
5min253
Democrat Sean Shaw, as of Sept. 28, is the cash-on-hand leader in the Attorney General’s race … despite having less than a million dollars between campaign and committee accounts. And ironically, the state Rep. from Tampa has Republican House colleagues Frank White and Jay Fant to thank for his advantageous position. Republican Ashley Moody, despite having raised $5,488,619 since […]
Drew WilsonJune 12, 2018
5min303
Clearwater Republican Ed Hooper narrowly outraised New Port Richey Democrat Amanda Murphy in her first month running for Senate District 16. Hooper raised $43,575 in hard money and tacked on another $24,590 through his committee, Friends of Ed Hooper, for a total of $68,165 raised in May. After about $12,000 in spending, Hooper’s accounts ended […]
Drew WilsonApril 11, 2018
2min266
Republican state Rep. Kathleen Peters is holding a fundraiser for her Pinellas County Commission campaign in Treasure Island next week. The event will be held at The Club at Treasure Island, 400 Treasure Island Causeway, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on April 17. Attendees can RSVP by sending a note to [email protected] or by […]
Drew WilsonMarch 2, 2018
2min342
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam raised another $431,000 last month for his political committee, Florida Grown, according to records on the committee’s website. The new numbers show Florida Grown at nearly $20 million in total fundraising since it was formed in early 2015. Putnam is running for the GOP nomination for Governor. He currently faces Northeast […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 16, 2018
6min366
There are a number of first-time candidates running for office in Hillsborough County this year, but none are more successful at raising campaign cash than Aakash Patel, the 33-year-old Tampa businessman who is running for the District 1 seat on the Hillsborough County Commission. Patel added more than $9,000 to his campaign coffers last month and now […]
Drew WilsonOctober 12, 2017
6min454
The race for St. Pete mayor has already gone down as the costliest election in city history, and new campaign finance reports show no lulls in the arms race between incumbent Rick Kriseman and former two-term Mayor Rick Baker. Kriseman, who won the Aug. 29 primary election by 69 votes, jutted ahead of his competition […]
Peter SchorschDecember 7, 2016
4min153
Florida voters approved medical marijuana with 71 percent of the vote on Election Day, and a new report commissioned by Florida for Care shows just how widespread support for the measure was in every corner of the state. According to the TLE Analytics report, Amendment 2 reached the 60 percent threshold in each of Florida’s […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 29, 2016
3min303
Donald Trump’s transition finance committee will host a major fundraiser in New York next week, and several well-known Florida politicos are among those supporters listed on the invitation. The fundraiser, which was first reported by POLITICO, is scheduled for Dec. 7 in New York. According to POLITICO, the $5,000 per person fundraiser will benefit Trump […]