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With polls showing the Greenlight Pinellas campaign hovering too-close-for-comfort just above 50 percent, the effort to expand mass transit in the county through an increase in the sales tax could use a shot in the arm. The latest video for Greenlight Pinellas feels like the exact opposite of such a boost. I don’t know who this woman is, but she’s featured for a full four seconds in the commercial. Not to be a complete racist, but this is not the face needed…

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Chris Christie visits the Sunshine State once again for a busy campaign day on Thursday, starting with three South Florida events with Gov. Rick Scott and ending with a pair of events in Georgia. Christie is chair of the Republican Governors Association and has been busy traveling the country campaigning in key GOP contests for the 2014 election year. “There’s no more important governor’s race to me than the one here in Florida,” the New Jersey governor and prospective 2016…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the firm best known for smart, strong and strategic counsel across the diverse and ever-changing media landscape: Little more than 90 miles from Florida, the end of the world almost began 52 years ago today. The Cuban Missile Crisis began on Oct. 14, 1962, when U.S. Air Force Major Richard Heyser – a native of the Florida…

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As developer Jeff Vinik continues to play an expensive game of Monopoly, acquiring and buying up swaths of the Channelside District and other parts of downtown Tampa, he may be turning to Florida lawmakers for help with realizing his vision for the area. Three of Vinik’s business entities — Strategic Property Partners, LLC, the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Tampa Bay Sports & Entertainment, LLC — have retained Ballard Partners, the governmental affairs firm headed by one of the state’s most prominent lobbyists,…

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In a new campaign ad released today, Florida Democrats are only doing what Gov. Rick Scott asks: hold him accountable for campaign promises the then-political novice made in 2010. “Promises” is Charlie Crist’s latest 30-second spot, produced by the Florida Democratic Party to hit airwaves statewide. The digital ad takes Scott to task on his oft-repeated campaign pledge of 700,000 jobs “on top of what normal growth would be.” Included is a Fox 13 broadcast in September 2014 questioning the…

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A woman who challenged Republican Gov. Rick Scott in the August primary was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of fraud after authorities said she made up campaign donors in an effort to collect matching campaign funds from the state. Yinka Abosede Adeshina, 43, was arrested at Tallahassee Regional Airport as she returned home from a vacation in Nigeria. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said she filed two campaign finance reports with the Department of State listing $182,080…

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Tomorrow night, St. Pete Polls will be back in the field to survey the handful of state House seats still in play this election cycle. The last time, we polled more than a dozen districts to gauge the competitiveness of the races. This time, we will poll less than half of that. That’s because, even in seats where demographics might suggest that the Democratic candidate has a fighting chance, the polls reveal a harsh reality for Florida Democrats. Despite what the…

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