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I am not sure how it all came about, but my second favorite political reporter (muah to you, Marc Caputo) the Associated Press’ Gary Fineout, insisted today via Twitter that he is not a “blogger.” “Facts.1st, I’m not a blogger. 2nd, children wore Step Up t-shirts. 3rd, when asked Voices for Choices referred reporters to Step Up employee,” tweeted Fineout.  Except, up until that moment, Fineout’s biography on Twitter read that he was an AP reporter and blogger. It has…

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Let’s do the math… Jay Fant outspends Paul Renner $608,465 to $313,415 in the GOP primary for House District 15, plowing $375,000 of his own money into his campaign — $160,000 of that in the last 10 days. Fant’s campaign finance report tells a story of a campaign that knew its early lead in the polls was dwindling. Ten days out from the election, Fant loaned his campaign an additional $75,000 (he had already loaned his campaign $215,000). Four days out,…

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In her first TV ad of the state Senate District 34 general election, State Sen. Maria Sachs vows to continue her fight against “special interests” while protecting Florida’s middle class families. The Delray Beach Democrat faces a rematch with former Republican state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff in the Democrat-leaning district. “Standing up to Special Interests” begins with a narrator saying how Sachs, as an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade and Broward County, has a history of “putting victims first.” “In the…

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Uber is now going to Florida State University, as the tech innovator begins Tallahassee service, one of 22 college towns across the country launching the on-request towncar service this week. With its latest growth burst, Uber now provides safe and affordable transportation in over 200 cities worldwide, as well as 55 percent of the US population. Beginning Thursday, up to 600,000 students will be able to get Uber, all with the push of a button, through Uber’s ridesharing service UberX. Users…

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Let me state up front that I am NOT a pollster. I dabble, I tinker, and I play. My robo calls are one part entertainment and one part informational. As such, some we get right and some, as more than a few of you have pointed out (a.k.a. HD 40), we get wrong. But as the Monty Python skit implores, let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who. As I was saying, we got most of the races right…

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Today’s TBT commemorates famous 20th Century filibusters in American politics — why? Because August 28 marks the 57th anniversary, to the day, of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record breaking solo filibuster. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes — a commendable feat, were it not for his purpose behind doing so. Mr. Thurmond got his pipes winded for the ignoble goal of preventing the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He concluded with the understatement, “I…

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They used to be called an Academy. They were a consortium of thinkers and leaders of their profession. They were serious people engaged in a serious business and their trade association was run by serious professionals who had the respect of their peers. They were giant killers who knocked off the man who, in his own words, owned the Senate; it was “his chamber” after all.  And they fended off the enemy in high style; beating back an FMA-sponsored ballot…

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