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Mitch Perry Report 2.14.14 -More political ads coming your way -via Pandora?
According to Roll Call, over $7 million has been expended as of Tuesday in the CD13 race between David Jolly and Alex Sink in Pinellas County. That's when you combine all of the spending from the...
View ArticleRepublicans pounce on Alex Sink's comment about the ACA's impact on the economy
Last week's Congressional Budget Office report that indicated that one of the effects of the Affordable Care Act would be a drop in work hours equal to the loss of 2.5 million full-time workers over...
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The Gaily News: Gay marriage ban overturned in Virginia
A federal judge in Virginia overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage Thursday evening.The order was subsequently stayed to allow for appeals, which means same-sex marriages can’t begin immediately in...
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Eric Cantor comes to V.M. Ybor to tout Academy Prep Center of Tampa
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor spent his Valentine's Day in the V.M. Ybor section of Tampa on Friday, taking part in a fundraiser for CD13 GOP candidate David Jolly at the J.C. Newman Cigar...
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Jolly attempts to reach out to couple who slam him on Social Security in new ad
Not only are David Jolly and Alex Sink miles apart ideologically in their contest to succeed the late Bill Young in Pinellas County's 13th Congressional District next month, they also apparently have...
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St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs brings climate change discussion...
Climate change was one of the many topics of the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs on Friday, with the seminar titled “Global Warming Will Give Us More Time On The Beach” allowing for an...
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Mitch Perry Report 2.17.14: Dunn case another example of the problems with...
First of all, a big shout-out to WTSP's Noah Pransky for winning the Polk Award for local television reporting over the weekend. His reports exposed how the state of Florida had reduced the length of...
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Kathy Castor, ACLU & NAACP call for Gov. Scott & Cabinet to automatically...
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder called for a repeal of laws that prohibit millions of ex-felons from voting, calling it a vestige of the racist policies in the South after the civil war, when...
View ArticleElizabeth Snedecker, star of anti-David Jolly ad, says she'd be glad to talk...
Upon viewing the ad that features a Largo couple bashing his take on Social Security, David Jolly told CL over the weekend that he had attempted to speak directly to that couple — Rod and Elizabeth...
View ArticleComcast-Time Warner deal looks like bad news for the rest of us
There really wasn't too much of an interest on the Sunday morning public affairs show this past weekend, though it was nice to see the networks devote some airtime to climate change after a winter for...
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Mitch Perry Report 2.18.14: The Democrats’ new George Soros?
A little over a year ago, Tom Steyer, a California-based environmentalist, stepped down from the investing firm he created in 1986. At that time he announced he was going to concentrate his efforts...
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John Dingfelder is running to be a judge
Over the past decade, John Dingfelder has been a regular figure in Tampa politics as a member of the City Council. Even after his electoral career was sidelined by losing to Sandy Murman in a bruising...
View ArticleKarl Rove's American Crossroads returns to bash Alex Sink in new ad
American Crossroads and their 501c(4) twin, American Crossroads GPS were among the biggest outside spending groups in the 2012 election cycle, and so far in the early part of 2014 they look like...
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Proposed Common Core standards blasted at state education meeting
Does anyone like the Common Core? It sure didn't seem that way in Orlando this morning, where the state Board of Education met to approve amendments to the extremely controversial statewide education...
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Mitch Perry Report 2.19.14: Once again, a request to review Stand Your Ground
Yesterday in Tallahassee, a group of black lawmakers and community members held a press conference to call for a thorough study of Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, specifically to...
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Community meeting on Florida State Fair's Student Day brings out all types of...
According to Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies, youths running amok at the state fair is nothing new — yet they've never told the media about what they call "wilding" until what happened on the...
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Sink campaign trots out GOP endorsements to emphasize her centrist credentials
Since she entered the CD13 race last fall, Democrat Alex Sink has emphasized her ability to transcend ideology as a selling point in her candidacy. And to put some meat behind that bromide, today the...
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New report on Florida's "Dirty Dozen" laws calls for repeal of ban on...
As CL reportedlast month, there certainly appears to be a sentiment in the air in Tallahassee this year to finally repeal the absurd state law banning 64-ounce growlers from being sold by craft...
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Tucker/Hall bows out of Yes for Greenlight campaign
For supporters of Greenlight Pinellas, the transit funding measure that goes before voters in November, this has not been a good day.Ronnie Duncan, one of the just announced leaders of the Yes for...
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Mitch Perry Report 2.20.14: Where in the world is Carlos-Lopez Cantera?
For critics (like myself) who believe Florida's lieutenant governor position is completely superfluous and lacking any significance whatsoever, Carlos Lopez-Cantera's first three weeks on the job have...
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