Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Marc YachtNovember 3, 2015

Republican antics may play well to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and their listeners, but can such bleating muster the votes to win a national election? Judging by the latest GOP effort to embarrass Hillary Clinton with another Benghazi investigation, the 11-hour marathon found itself out of step even with some of its own party faithful. […]

Melissa RossOctober 26, 2015

In an email to supporters and media outlets, the Florida Family Policy Council is urging Governor Rick Scott to follow Texas’ lead in defunding Planned Parenthood in the state. “Texas has done exactly what we are asking Governor Rick Scott to do in Florida: namely completely defunding Planned Parenthood and stopping any more taxpayer funds from […]

Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2015

In his short year-and-a-half stint serving as a Congressman in Washington, David Jolly has on occasion voted against the majority of his party because of what he says is typical Washington dishonesty. While that attitude works in representing his moderate Pinellas County district, it’s a danger in running in a Republican primary election for Senate, […]

Diane RobertsOctober 1, 2015

John Keats called autumn the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” Which is true. But autumn is also the season when conservatives seem to ramp up the crazy. Maybe college football gets them so riled up they can’t handle reality. Or maybe it’s the semi-annual almost-not-quite-government-shutdown. That certainly impels U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz into a […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 30, 2015

Marco Rubio talks policy and his own personality in a quick Q&A with the Skimm, the daily email newsletter designed for millennial women. The Florida Senator, who has had a topsy-turvy relationship with primary voters in the GOP presidential polls since declaring his candidacy back in April, has now become the favorite of the media […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 29, 2015

The House of Representatives is poised to vote sometime in the next 36 hours on a bill to continue the funding the government – all the way into the second week of December, when apparently we’ll go through another round of high stakes concerns that there might be a government shutdown. CNN reports that there […]

Associated PressSeptember 26, 2015

The Republican Party’s conservative wing, pumped up by House Speaker John Boehner‘s stepping down, is warning the 2016 presidential candidates that defying its wishes will come at their peril. Religious activists forcefully conveyed this message Saturday: embrace our uncompromising stance against abortion rights and gay marriage, among other priorities, even if doing so risks a […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 24, 2015

A Republican lawmaker has filed a bill to regulate abortion clinics like ambulatory surgical centers, but one civil-liberties expert described it as another veiled effort to make it more difficult to get abortions in Florida. State Rep. Carlos Trujillo of Miami, who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, filed the bill (HB 233) on Thursday. The legislation adds […]

Associated PressSeptember 24, 2015

Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to embrace “the stranger in our midst” as he became the first pontiff in history to address a joint meeting of the legislators. Referencing the migration crisis in Europe as well as the United States’ […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2015

In Washington on Tuesday, Senate Republicans introduced a short-term spending bill that would essential fund the government through Dec. 11 and avert a shutdown. The measure would defund Planned Parenthood and increase defense spending by about $13 billion. It’s expected to fall short when it comes up for a vote Thursday. The next likely scenario is that Senate Majority […]

Tag: Planned Parenthood

Dr. Marc J. Yacht: The GOP agenda and other fantasies

Email insights: Florida Family Policy Council says follow Texas’ lead, defund Planned Parenthood

David Jolly says he’s willing to lose Senate race to change Washington

Diane Roberts: The season when conservatives ramp up the crazy

Marco Rubio says he’d order up Tex-Mex in his first meal in the White House

Mitch Perry Report for 9.29.15 – Planned Parenthood answers back

Conservatives to 2016 GOP field: Defy us at your own peril

Bill would subject abortion clinics to higher regulation

Pope Francis addresses religion, Islamic extremists, immigration in historic speech

Kathy Castor warns GOP about government shutdown threats