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Polk County readies a tax-swap proposal for transit
Transportation options may finally be on the verge of expansion for citizens in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas County voters will vote on a proposed one-cent sales tax increase that would begin...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.8.14 - Problems with Florida's unemployment website...
While the Republican Party of Florida continues to send out daily emails blasting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Democrats who support it, there's nary a word of outrage from...
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AFDI's Pamela Geller vows to sue HART if ads not accepted
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Pamela Geller as "the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead." Others call her far worse. A former associate publisher of the New York...
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David Jolly says he has NEVER lobbied for offshore drilling interests
In a statement issued Tuesday night, CD13 GOP candidate David Jolly reiterated a comment he made Monday morning at the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce forum — that, contrary to speculation, he...
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Rick Kriseman's hiring boom
A funny thing happened on the way to Rick Kriseman’s coronation/inauguration last Thursday in front of City Hall in St. Petersburg. The mayor-elect, who won a smashing 12-point victory over incumbent...
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Florida Democrats hit GOP on unemployment & minimum wage
On the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty speech, Florida Democrats in Washington attacked Republicans for failing to support an extension of unemployment benefits, while Democrats in...
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Rick Scott slams Kathy Castor for criticizing state's troubled unemployment...
Rick Scott has certainly heard lots of criticism from Democrats during his term as governor of Florida, but rarely does he react in kind. But late Wednesday afternoon at a Honda dealership in East...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.9.14 - "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee"
Remember when Lyndon Johnson supposedly said after Walter Cronkite criticized the U.S. effort in Vietnam that if he had lost Cronkite, he had lost the country? I wonder what Chris Christie was thinking...
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All 3 GOP candidates in CD13 race take pledge NOT to raise taxes
During his very short-lived campaign to challenge Kathy Castor for Congress in 2012, Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpevowed that if elected to serve in Washington, the only pledge that he...
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Janet Long says "everyone knew" about Bill Young's first family situation
Andrew Meacham's story in Sunday's Tampa Bay Times regarding the revelations that former Congressman Bill Young had an unreported affair and out-of-wedlock child while still married to his first wife...
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Alex Sink launches "Truth Team" as general election in CD13 heats up
(Update)Although she's already been the target of sharply worded press releases from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Alex Sink hasn't seen anything yet, as most of the energy in...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.10.14 - Bad news for Kathleen Peters in GOP CD13 race
With just days to go before Pinellas County registered Republican voters go to the polls to decide who will be their nominee to face Democrat Alex Sink in the special congressional election in District...
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NRCC says Alex Sink "can't handle the truth," creates own Sink Truth website
With the general election campaign for the CD13 seat beginning in earnest next week, Alex Sink prepared for the inevitable GOP onslaught against her on Thursday by creating a website called "The Alex...
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Legalize It petition drive coming to St. Petersburg's Amsterdam for final...
The push to get legalized medical marijuana on the Florida ballot in 2014 is in its final days. After months and months of collecting signatures across the state, United for Care's campaign manager Ben...
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St. Petersburg seats new City Council
St. Petersburg’s new city council was seated for the first time on Thursday. The new chairman is Bill Dudley and Amy Foster and Darden Rice are its new editions. The hot button issues, however, were...
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Judithanne McLauchlan crams for a run for office
Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan has accomplished a lot in her 45 years on the planet, working at the highest levels of public service and national Democratic Party politics — interning at the White...
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David Jolly not pressed by his opponents on offshore drilling issue in GOP...
With David Jolly holding a double-digit lead over both his Republican rivals in the special primary election in CD13 with just days to go, Kathleen Peters and Mark Bircher have little time to make up...
View ArticleMaryland lawmaker blasts Rubio's take on the War on Poverty
There's been a lot of talk about income inequality and poverty in the first two weeks of 2014, and a lot of it is coming from Republicans. Never one to miss out on the moment, Florida's Marco Rubio...
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Mitch Perry Report 1.13.14 - Remember Afghanistan?
Over the weekend I checked out two new films - Her and Lone Survivor. Her is the new film written and directed by Spike Jonze (who won the Golden Globe Award last night for the film's very original...
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Added pressure? Politico calls Alex Sink "unambiguous favorite" in CD13 race
With the general election campaign ready to begin in earnest in Pinellas County's CD13 race following tomorrow night's GOP primary, Alex Sink is amping up her public campaign appearances. Saturday she...
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