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A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

The always idiosyncratic voters at the Jacksonville Tiger Bay club voted in a straw poll for citywide candidates at this past Friday’s meeting, which we covered. The results are in and they are not party line. In the Mayoral Straw Poll, incumbent Democrat Alvin Brown bested Republican Lenny Curry 50 percent to 40 percent, with 10 percent leaving […]

Florence SnyderApril 5, 2015

Skip Foster, the new publisher at the Tallahassee Democrat, was greeted as a liberator in his maiden speech to the Capital Tiger Bay Club. The gray-haired eminences who make up the Club’s membership know the difference between a good newspaper and a Chamber of Commerce rag. They’re embarrassed that the Times – New York and […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 28, 2015

(UPDATE: New information regarding the source of the push poll call below). Supporters of Tampa City Council candidates Guido Maniscalco and Tommy Castellano say that they and other residents residing in City Council District 6 have been receiving phone calls in the past week purporting to be from an independent pollster, surveying them about all three […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 8, 2015

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman fielded questions from members of a local non-partisan political club Thursday. Questions from Suncoast Tiger Bay members circled mostly around two key issues Kriseman faces – figuring out what to do about the Tampa Bay Rays and building a new pier. It was no surprise the two topics dominated conversation. […]

Mitch PerryDecember 10, 2014

The CIA and its supporters are in full pushback mode today, a day after the publication of a summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the use of torture (or as the CIA euphemistically refers to it as, “enhanced interrogation tactics”). Like so many other things that come out of Washington, the political establishment […]

Mitch PerryNovember 21, 2014

Democratic Party political adviser Steve Schale and Republican consultant Adam Goodman are two of the very best strategists in Florida, so it was entertaining to hear the two pontificating about this month’s election results in Florida on Friday. Speaking at a Tampa Tiger Bay event at Maestro’s restaurant inside the Straz Performing Arts Center on […]

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TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 4/18/25-Candles and remembrances are left near the Unconquered statue a few hours after the Florida State University Gathering of Unity Vigil held Friday to honor victims of the recent mass shooting. COLIN HACKLEY PHOTO

Alvin Brown, Mike Williams win Tiger Bay straw poll

Florence Snyder: New Tallahassee Democrat editor has much to prove

Push poll roils Tampa City Council race

In Tiger Bay appearance, Rick Kriseman advances pier, Rays debates

Mitch Perry Report for 12.10.14 – The politics of torture

Steve Schale and Adam Goodman break down 2014 election