Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2017
1min297
Republican consultant Anthony Pedicini is the latest target of a negative mailer in the vitriolic House District 58 primary.
Tag: Yvonne Fry
Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2017
Joe HendersonOctober 4, 2017
5min279
There is a game plan, oft-repeated in politics, that says going negative beats a reasoned argument almost every time. We are seeing that play out again in the HD 58 campaign for the Republican nomination, where mailboxes are being filled with fliers calling Yvonne Fry a closet liberal in Republican clothes. The primary election to succeed […]
Drew WilsonOctober 4, 2017
5min271
Another wave of mailers went out in Hillsborough County blasting HD 58 Republican candidate Yvonne Fry for her alleged lack of conservative bona fides. Both mailers were paid for by “Hillsborough County Conservatism Counts,” a political committee formed at the end of last month by Ash Mason, who worked as a legislative aide in the […]
Peter SchorschSeptember 30, 2017
1min515
Tempers are flaring in the increasingly hostile Hillsborough County House District 58 contest, as early voting begins in a race marked by accusations of false attacks and heated threats.
Mitch PerrySeptember 28, 2017
4min212
As a registered nonprofit group, Save Southern Heritage can’t endorse candidates. However, they can provide “information” to voters, and the inference from the cards it’s mailed out to 3,000 households in House District 58 in eastern Hillsborough County indicates it likes the responses that Lawrence McClure gave the group, as opposed to Yvonne Fry, who […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 26, 20175min609
Two weeks before the primary, the Republican race is becoming more intense between Yvonne Fry and Lawrence McClure for the House District 72 special election. In the past week, two mailers sent by outside groups blasting Fry have made their way into eastern Hillsborough County mailboxes. One came from the Orlando-based “Ax The Tax” political organization […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2017
1min409
Presumably, Lawrence McClure will vote for himself in next month’s Republican primary election in House District 58. If so, it would be the first primary election in which the 30-year-old Dover native has voted.
Staff ReportsSeptember 18, 2017
1min236
Yvonne Fry’s Florida House campaign received a major boost Monday with the endorsement of Dan Raulerson, the former lawmaker she is hoping to succeed in House District 58.
Peter SchorschSeptember 18, 2017
3min410
The two GOP candidates running to replace retired Rep. Dan Raulerson in House District 58 raised a combined $169,000 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 7 according to newly filed campaign finance reports. Plant City businessman Lawrence McClure, 30, brought in the bulk of the money, with his first campaign finance report showing $107,205 in contributions […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 20172min325
Republican candidate Lawrence McClure, running in the special election for House District 58, has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association to replace previous state Rep. Dan Raulerson. McClure, a Hillsborough County Farm Board Bureau board member from Dover, is running against Plant City businesswoman Yvonne Fry in the GOP primary, which takes place Oct. 10. “Lawrence McClure has an ‘A’ rating […]