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Staff ReportsDecember 18, 2017

Alix Miller, formerly of Tallahassee’s On 3 Public Relations (On3PR), will join the Florida Trucking Association as vice president, according to a Monday press release. Her first day at the association will be Jan. 2. “I am thrilled to join the FTA team and get to know our members,” Miller said. “I look forward to working with external […]

Scott PowersNovember 2, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Rick Scott found widespread support among a dozen or so business owners gathered in an Orlando factory Thursday for the kinds of tax cuts President Donald Trump is pushing in Washington. Members of the business roundtable assembled to meet with Pence at the Correct Craft factory that makes Nautique […]

Scott PowersJuly 14, 2017

While Vice President Mike Pence prepares to take over American space policy as chairman of the resurrected National Space Council, space exploration advocates are hailing his choice as the panel’s executive secretary, Scott Pace. Pace is a former space policy advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush and an academic who currently is […]

Scott PowersJuly 6, 2017

At the first major address by the administration of President Donald Trump on space policy, Vice President Mike Pence told a NASA gathering at the Kennedy Space Center that a new era is dawning of American leadership in space, and promised a return to the moon. But Pence stopped there, offering almost no specifics on […]

Larry GriffinOctober 31, 2016

Indiana governor and vice presidential nominee Mike Pence appeared at the Maitland Civic Center in Seminole County Monday afternoon, where he spoke to a galvanized audience of fans on the faults of Hillary Clinton and the virtues of Donald Trump eight days before the presidential election comes to a close. Trump was the only candidate who, Pence […]

Staff ReportsOctober 18, 2016

It’s no secret Andrew Gillum is considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, but his leap to the national political stage could have come sooner than many expected. A newly released document from the hacked email file of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta shows Gillum, Tallahassee’s mayor, was among a large number of people […]

Scott PowersOctober 3, 2016

Vice President Joe Biden has an eight-year American administration legacy to defend and he did exactly that Monday in Orlando, denouncing denigrations of the United States’ power and strength and calling Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “dangerously uninformed.” Speaking to a small gathering of no more than a couple hundred people packed into an old […]

Mitch PerryJuly 27, 2016

On Sunday, FloridaPolitics.com reported a group of Bernie Sanders delegates were considering challenging Hillary Clinton‘s selection of Tim Kaine to be her vice presidential running mate. But with hours to go before Kaine’s name goes into nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, that effort appears to have died out. Norman Soloman with the Bernie Delegates Network told […]

Associated PressJuly 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton‘s vice presidential search is centering on three main contenders, with an announcement expected as soon as Friday as the Democrat prepares for her party’s national convention next week in Philadelphia. Clinton’s campaign has focused in recent days on Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a former governor, mayor and one-time Catholic missionary fluent in Spanish; […]

Mitch PerryJuly 20, 2016

The Hillary Clinton campaign is providing more details on her appearances this Friday in Tampa and Miami. The presumptive (for another week) Democratic presidential nominee will be speaking at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Doors will open at 2:30 p.m. Those who want to attend can sign up here. The Tampa trip will […]

Tag: Vice President

Personnel note: Alix Miller to join Florida Trucking Association

Mike Pence, Rick Scott find support for tax cuts

Space groups hailing appointment of Scott Pace as National Space Council executive

Mike Pence promises renewed American leadership in space, the moon

In Maitland, Mike Pence talks up Donald Trump as a defender of traditional American values

Leaked email shows Andrew Gillum among those considered for VP

Joe Biden lays into Donald Trump as ‘dangerously uninformed’

No challenge to Tim Kaine tonight by Bernie Sanders delegates

Hillary Clinton VP search focus is Tim Kaine, Tom Vilsack, Tom Perez

Hillary Clinton to speak Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. at Florida State Fairgrounds

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