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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 […]

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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