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Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2015

Welcome to the the autumn equinox, Yom Kippur, Pope Francis’ first full day in the U.S., and……the unveiling of Creative Loafing’s annual Best-of-the-Bay issue. Tonight, the folks associated with the local alternative weekly will publish their BOTB issue, literally and figuratively the biggest paper that the company will produce this year. As some of you may know, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

South Carolina U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy didn’t attend a fundraiser for Marco Rubio at the home of Harlan Crow and wife, Kathy, in Highland Park, Texas, Tuesday night. Gowdy, best known as being chairman of the Special Select Committee on Benghazi, said in the spring that he wouldn’t be using his committee to raise money because he […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

United For Care, the advocacy group pushing to have medical marijuana legalized in Florida, has now collected more than 500,000 signatures in its bid to get on the 2016 ballot. That news came via an email sent out by Orlando attorney John Morgan, the Democratic Party fundraiser and main financial backer for last year’s effort, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Jeb Bush assured reporters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Tuesday that, “We are in it for the long haul,” and said he thinks he’ll be able to pick up Scott Walker supports in Iowa. Though he has nabbed one such Walker backer – Iowa State Rep. Terry Baxter – he’ll need a whole lot more if […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Nine days after Patrick Murphy spoke before hundreds of Hillsborough County Democrats at the party’s annual fundraising dinner, Alan Grayson got his shot Monday night. Speaking to about 70 members of the party’s executive committee members, the Orlando congressman and top Senate challenger to Murphy for the Democratic nomination for Senate spoke and took questions […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Orange County Republican Comptroller Martha Haynie is endorsing Democrat Susannah Randolph in the CD 9 race taking place next year. “We need elected officials who will listen to people, and help citizens have faith that they will do what they say they will do, ” said Haynie in a press release. “Susannah is in this race […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill is calling on Sheriff David Gee to investigate the contract awarded to Parsons Brinckerhoff for the public outreach effort for a proposed transportation sales tax. He’s also calling on PB to stop all work on the Go Hillsborough campaign, until Gee’s inquiry is complete. That second action sounds more dramatic than it […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Fourteen-year-old Andrew Joseph III was killed Feb. 7, 2014, as he tried to cross Interstate 4 in Tampa on foot just west of U.S. 301. He had been kicked out of the Florida State Fair for alleged disorderly conduct. He was among the more than 100 young people ejected that night after a stampede of teenagers had […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

It was one of the lighter moments of last week’s 3-hour long GOP presidential debate from the Reagan Library. We’re referring to when Jeb Bush confessed that he indulged in smoking cannabis. “Forty years ago I smoked marijuana, and I admit it,” Bush told the audience, responding to Rand Paul’s criticism that Republicans want to criminalize recreational marijuana […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, once considered among the front-runners for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, will announce he’s quitting the race at 6 p.m. Eastern time, according to an initial report from The New York Times confirmed by the other sources. “The short answer is money,” an anonymous supporter of Walker tells the Times. “He’s made […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.23.15 – The Best of Tampa Bay, mostly

Marco Rubio campaign says Trey Gowdy canceled Texas fundraising event “weeks ago”

United for Care announces it has collected more than 500,000 signatures

Jeb Bush slumps to 6th place in Iowa in new PPP poll

Alan Grayson woos Tampa Democrats in his bid for U.S. Senate

Martha Haynie endorses Susannah Randolph in CD 9 contest

Mitch Perry Report for 9.22.15 – Hillsborough County transportation tax now DOA?

Teen’s death after 2014 Florida State Fair incident draws Alan Grayson’s attention

New Donald Trump video suggests Jeb Bush still indulging in pot

Scott Walker to bow out of GOP presidential race