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Mitch PerryJune 2, 2015

Chris Christie‘s road to the White House looks rough right now. Still facing fallout from “Bridgegate,” New Jersey’s governor hasn’t officially announced he’s a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. However, his announcement in Orlando on Tuesday that he’ll make a major speech on immigration reform this month indicates that the scandal be damned: It’s […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2015

Good morning to the unofficial beginning of summer, which actually began in the Tampa Bay area several weeks ago, if you gauge it by the regularity of temperatures in the 90s. Between now and our next federal holiday weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court is going to come down with several major decisions. None will have […]

Ryan RayMay 23, 2015

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Sen. Marco Rubio, one half of “Jebio” if you’ll excuse the tacky neologism, is quick to tell you who he is on the campaign trail: He’s the American Dream incarnate, prophet of a bold, totally not balding New American Century. And lest you believe Rubio’s definition of his major Democratic rival — a vestige of […]

Mitch PerryMay 21, 2015

Donald Trump has flirted with running a serious presidential campaign four times in the past 18 years -in 1988, when he was arguably at the zenith of his popularity as his Art of the Deal memoir topped the New York Times best-seller list, as well as 2000, 2004 and four years ago. So even though he says […]

Mitch PerryMay 21, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott signed a drone privacy law last week that bans drone surveillance of private citizens without their consent. A Washington, D.C.-based media lawyer, though, thinks the Sunshine State has gone too far in attempting to regulate the emerging new technology. Chuck Tobin is a partner in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., office. He […]

Mitch PerryMay 18, 2015

Last week, a delegation of Tampa area officials visited Cuba in a trip organized by the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. It was the third excursion to the communist island led by the Chamber in the past few years. It was “certainly the most productive and most historic,” Ronald Christaldi, a partner with the Tampa law firm of Shumaker, Loop […]

Mitch PerryMay 14, 2015

Marco Rubio is being lauded in some quarters Thursday morning for the way he handled the inevitable question on Iraq that was posed by Charlie Rose at the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday afternoon. “Not only would I not have been in favor of it, President Bush would not have been in favor of […]

Mitch PerryApril 28, 2015

The Democratic National Committee’s oppo research team enjoyed poking fun at Jeb Bush Monday, sending out an email after he was quoted in one setting over the weekend as saying, “I don’t think you need to spend $1 billion to be elected president of the United States.” Another quote attributed to him Sunday night while […]

Mitch PerryApril 23, 2015

Attempting to build up positive momentum in the lead-up to next week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage, a new group has been formed to show the growing bipartisan backing for gay marriage in the Sunshine State. It’s called, Florida Republicans for the Freedom to Marry, a joint effort between Equality Florida and Freedom […]

Ryan RayApril 13, 2015

Marco Rubio‘s life story has its own inherent interest to anyone who takes the time to look into his Florida Dream rise to the U.S. Senate, but the high-powered PR operations at the heart of today’s presidential campaigns can take no chances. That’s why Rubio has brought on a pair of top-shelf Republican media firms […]

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Chris Christie talks entitlement reform at Walt Disney World

Mitch Perry Report for 5.26.15 — That other health care decision affecting Floridians

Jeb Bush’s daring gambit: Be yourself

In Sarasota, Donald Trump says the world is abusing the United States

Media attorney thinks Florida’s new drone law unconstitutional

Tampa Chamber of Commerce positioning area to prosper with post-sanctions Cuba

Mitch Perry Report for 5.14.15 — Foreign policy fun with Jeb and Marco

Mitch Perry Report for 4.28.15 — Jeb Bush. And his money.

GOP “Freedom to Marry” group forms for SCOTUS same-sex hearing

Poolhouse ad agency gears up to frame story of Marco Rubio