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Danny McAuliffeFebruary 19, 2018

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Gov. Rick Scott will not attend a CNN-hosted town hall discussion with students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, their family members and the surrounding community. The reason? Scott’s staff said the governor will be busy in Tallahassee addressing the issue of student safety. “With only three weeks left of our annual legislative session, Governor Rick […]

Scott PowersJuly 6, 2017

If Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy had people shaking their heads last week when she introduced a balanced budget amendment bill, she had a few scratching their heads Thursday as she organized a town hall exercise in Winter Park that demonstrated how difficult it might be. Murphy, joined by Phillip R. Smith, national political director […]

Tamara LushMarch 6, 2017

It took about three minutes for the majority of the crowd at Florida Congressman Tom Rooney‘s town hall meeting Monday to start booing about everything from the environment to health care. “You are supporting an appropriations bill to help clean up the Everglades. You recently voted to repeal a rule that allows coal companies to […]

Scott PowersOctober 20, 2016

Four members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus joined Val Demings Thursday night, seeking to give her a boost in Florida’s 10th Congressional District race and to encourage more people to vote in Eatonville, Florida’s oldest historically black town. “We’re here for the chief,” U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, said of Demings, a retired […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 10, 2016

At a “town hall” held in a claustrophobia-inducing small meeting room in an office park in Jacksonville’s Southside, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carlos Beruff made news by avoiding making news. Unlike his visit to the St. Johns County REC last month, he avoided calling the president an “animal.” Indeed, he avoided much quotability at all, as […]

Tag: town hall

Rick Scott will skip CNN town hall, workshop student safety instead

Stephanie Murphy pledges support for balanced budget, then shows it’s not easy

Tom Rooney faces raucous crowd at town hall meeting

Four Congressional Black Caucus members stump for Val Demings

Carlos Beruff avoids making news while touring Jacksonville