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Mitch PerryDecember 16, 2015

Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly has a three-point lead over Ponte Vedra Beach Representative Ron DeSantis in a new St. Pete Polls survey released Wednesday, but over 43 percent of Republicans polled said they’re unsure or would prefer another candidate. Jolly gets 21 percent of the vote, with DeSantis next at 18 percent. Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera is […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

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South Florida U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy announced Tuesday his support for legislation that would ban people put on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy firearms in the U.S. That’s the same legislation that the GOP-led Congress rejected last week in both the House and the Senate, coming in the same week of the […]

Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2015

Pinellas County U.S. Rep. and Florida Republican Senate candidate David Jolly is calling on Donald Trump to quit his presidential bid after the GOP front-runner said all Muslims should be banned from entering the U.S. “While ISIS is beheading innocent people for their religious practices, Trump is betraying our freedoms,” Jolly said in a prepared statement issued early […]

Ryan RayDecember 7, 2015

In Sunday’s elections which saw voters rebuke the ruling United Social Party of Venezuela, a Florida congressman sees a victory for Democracy. Clearwater U.S. Rep. David Jolly in a statement Monday hailed the victory of the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition party in the National Assembly over the weekend, defeating the long-ruling party of former president Hugo Chavez. “Last […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 7, 2015

The next good review of Sunday night’s President Barack Obama‘s address, at least from GOP Senate candidates, will be the first. Todd Wilcox joined the chorus of criticism, with a Monday morning email, “What America needs now.” The email focuses in on what Wilcox believes is Obama failing to “provide the leadership needed to eliminate […]

Mitch PerryNovember 24, 2015

Republican Dan Bongino, the former Secret Service agent who nearly defeated an incumbent Democrats in race for Congress in Maryland last year, says that he is considering entering the Republican race for Senate in Florida, and will probably make up his mind by the beginning of 2016. Bonging moved to Palm City earlier this year, […]

Mitch PerryNovember 23, 2015

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On the campaign trail, Carlos Lopez-Cantera has been hammering home the difference between himself and the other Republicans in the GOP senate primary race by claiming that he is a Florida Republican, not from Washington, D.C. CLC makes that same point again in a new video that his campaign is pushing out on social media […]

Mitch PerryNovember 19, 2015

Two stories locally and statewide I’d like to draw your attention to this morning. The Tampa Tribune’s Anastasia Dawson has the goods on a story that has been floating around for a few weeks — how the majority of the faculty at Hillsborough Community College want to oust school President Ken Atwater. “A recent survey issued to nearly […]

Mitch PerryNovember 18, 2015

A new Florida Atlantic University statewide poll shows Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy faring well against two of the four GOP Senate candidates running in 2016. The poll shows that Murphy, the Democratic congressman from Florida’s Treasure Coast first elected in 2012, has a 9-point lead over Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera in the contest, 39 […]

Mitch PerryNovember 14, 2015

If the race for the Republican nomination for Senate in Florida next year comes down to who’s the toughest on Islamic terrorism, it could come down to a Todd Wilcox vs. Ron DeSantis contest. Both have extensive and impressive military backgrounds, but DeSantis actually has been elected — twice now, as a Congressman representing the 6th District […]

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Poll: Florida’s GOP U.S. Senate race shaping up as two man race, with David Jolly leading

Patrick Murphy urges ban on gun sales to those on terrorist watch list

David Jolly says Donald Trump should quit race after urging Muslim ban

David Jolly hails Chavista defeat in Venezuelan elections

Todd Wilcox: President Obama takes “coward’s way out”

Former Secret Service agent and Md. Senate candidate Dan Bongino says he’s thinking of entering Florida GOP Senate contest

Carlos Lopez-Cantera rails against Washington Republicans in new video

Mitch Perry Report for 11.19.15 – HCC’s president under fire

Patrick Murphy fares well in FAU poll of Florida U.S. Senate race

Ron DeSantis talks tough on terrorism in Orlando speech