Peter SchorschAugust 2, 2022Tag: The Capitolist
Peter SchorschAugust 2, 2022
Florida PhoenixAugust 1, 2022
11min0
A tale of espionage, subversion, and ‘ghost’ candidates.
Joe HendersonDecember 16, 2021
5min1024
A consistent conservative drumbeat is that universities are staffed with Communist professors who teach students to hate America.
Peter SchorschJanuary 13, 2020
2min425
The changes aren’t only skin deep.
Peter SchorschApril 30, 2018
4min578
Sarah Rumpf says she’s still writing for the conservative RedState website after nearly a dozen other contract writers were shown the door last week. Rumpf and others also took to social media Friday to debunk reports that the layoffs were an “ideological purge” against those opposed to President Donald Trump. “I just spoke with management […]
Peter SchorschDecember 11, 2017
4min191
See, this is the way it’s suppose to be done! On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Fred Piccolo, the communications director for House Speaker Richard Corcoran, had been working until recently for the company that owns this website. Although I was very unhappy with how this news got out, it’s a relevant story. Because of […]
Peter SchorschNovember 21, 2016
7min189
It’s been quite some time since I’ve dedicated any space on this site to the good work of my (former) colleagues in Florida’s political blogosphere. Perhaps this is because I believe I left that realm a long time ago. There’s some really good work being done in Florida’s political blogosphere, including: Jacob Engels’ must-read appeal to new Orange and […]
Peter SchorschOctober 24, 201617min261
August’s primary elections did not produce a breakthrough for any of the contenders in the behind-the-scenes, internecine scrum to one day lead the Florida House of Representatives. Instead, the race to be House Speaker in 2022-24 has settled in for a long slog which may not be decided until, at the earliest, 2018. And, according […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterSeptember 1, 2016
4min760
Put Jason Maughan in the sore loser column. The Sanibel Island Republican had hoped to unseat Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto in Senate District 27. He failed — receiving 31 percent of the vote to Benacquisto’s 70 percent. But rather than concede gracefully, Maughan took to Facebook to bash Benacquisto, who is expected to play a prominent role […]
Peter SchorschAugust 7, 2016
4min453
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carlos Beruff has not “pulled the plug” on his TV advertising campaign, contrary to a report published on The Capitolist. On Sunday morning, blogger Sarah Rumpf wrote Beruff “suddenly cut off all spending on broadcast and cable television ads this week.” Such a maneuver by Beruff would all but concede the Republican primary to […]