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Aggressive digital strategy made Matt Gaetz’s CD 1 primary victory look deceptively easy

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Matt Gaetz may have enjoyed an easy victory in Florida’s 1st Congressional District, beating State Sen. Greg Evers and others in the crowded Republican primary Tuesday night. But in reality, the double-digit win — 37-21 percent over second-place Evers — was far from simple. Much of Gaetz’s triumph came by way of an aggressive digital media effort, spearheaded by the Tallahassee-based Enwright Consulting Group. The way to win modern elections has changed; as such, a memo obtained by FloridaPolitics.com shows Enwright embraced the…

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Matt Gaetz, Greg Evers among candidates in Florida’s 1st District

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A legislator who backed comments describing Black Lives Matter as a terrorist group and another who held an online giveaway of a semi-automatic rifle are among eight Republicans trying to succeed a retiring congressman in Florida’s conservative Panhandle. U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller‘s heavily conservative 1st Congressional District, which is home to five military installations and a large population of veterans, has gone Republican since 1994. State Sen. Greg Evers and state Rep. Matt Gaetz announced they were running in the…

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Matt Gaetz goes out for pot

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Matt Gaetz will “host a medical marijuana delivery to a Northwest Florida family,” his legislative office announced Tuesday. And the Fort Walton Beach Republican invited reporters to join him as he tags along for the ride. Surterra Therapeutics will deliver the first shipment of medicinal pot to an as-yet-undisclosed location in the Panhandle. The delivery will be Thursday morning. Gaetz, a candidate for the 1st Congressional District, championed medical cannabis in the House. He joined the bipartisan effort to allow low-THC cannabis for children who suffer from debilitating seizures and…

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Matt Gaetz releases latest TV ad

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Matt Gaetz released his latest ad, called “Veterans,” on Monday. He’s aiming to win Florida’s conservative-leaning 1st Congressional District in the Panhandle, home to Hurlburt Field, Eglin AFB and the Pensacola Naval Air Station, home of the Blue Angels. The district “is home to some of our nation’s most important military installations and thousands of brave men and women who serve and who have served in uniform,” Gaetz said in a statement. The Republican state Representative from Fort Walton Beach, and Greg Evers, a GOP state Senator…

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Gary Stein: Time for Northwest Florida Daily News to respect medical marijuana

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In the age where cannabis is finally being re-recognized as treatment for a vast plethora of human ailments and regaining the stature it had for centuries before it was degraded by lies, bigotry and greed, it’s time that the media grow up, and start by using the appropriate nomenclature for the plant that has been used by humans for over 12,000 years and recognized as medicine for 4,000 years. To paraphrase Mrs. Willy Loman, via playwright Arthur Miller, “Respect must…

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Email insights: Matt Gaetz boasts of his role in keeping the F-35 program alive at Eglin Air Force Base

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Congressional candidate Matt Gaetz wants friends and supporters to know the F-35 fighter is ready to join the fight against terrorism, thanks — in no small part — to his work as a young North Florida attorney. A new email from Gaetz reminds voters in Florida’s 1st Congressional District that Eglin Air Force Base has been at the epicenter of the fifth-generation fighter program from the beginning, particularly in its rough early days. The program almost didn’t happen in the…

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Matt Gaetz touts conservative credentials in new CD 1 ad

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Matt Gaetz has a message to voters in Florida’s 1st Congressional District: No candidate is more conservative He’s hoping to drive that message home in a new 30-second, called “The Most Conservative.” The advertisement highlights his record in the Florida Legislature, where he was called the “most conservative legislator” in the state by the Tampa Bay Times. “Government is rigged against people. More and more, it doesn’t matter which political party wins an election because the same special interests are…

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