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David Jolly to discuss Stop Act at National Press Club next week

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Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly will get another national platform to discuss his legislation that would ban federally elected officials from asking for campaign contributions when he speaks at the National Press Club next Monday. Jolly’s STOP Act faces long odds of passage through Congress, however, as he has yet to be able to gain only eight co-sponsors in the House, and none in the Senate. Nonetheless, it’s certainly brought him a lot of national attention, including a featured appearance on CBS’ 60 Minutes last…

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Todd Wilcox blasts David Jolly on calling for lobbying ban – even though he said it nearly a year ago

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Since declaring his candidacy for  his first run for Congress in late 2013, David Jolly has to had to hear from his critics that he’s a creature of the Washington Establishment. Jolly spent 11 years working with Congressman Bill Young, the last six as his general counsel. In 2007 he left join the Washington, D.C. firm Van Scoyoc Associates as a lobbyist, and in 2011, he left Van Scoyoc to open his own firm, Three Bridges Advisors. Now he’s running as a Washington reformer in a bid for the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.2.16 – Cleveland, meet California

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The imagery coming out of California late last week wasn’t extremely alarming, but it was instructive. Protestors, many of them black or brown, went a bit nuts at Donald Trump campaign appearances Thursday night in Orange County on Thursday night and to a lesser extent on Friday in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco (and right near the airport). It was similar to the sort of images we saw at an ill-fated Trump rally in Chicago last month when violent exchanges…

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David Jolly says ideally he’d like to ban all TV political advertising

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David Jolly says that he asked Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson that if they co-sponsored his legislation banning federal officeholders from directly soliciting campaign contributions, he would have been content if they continued to fundraise, even possibly against him this fall. “I took the pledge in January. I no longer directly solicit money,” the Pinellas County GOP Congressman and senate candidate said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “But I’d beg my Democratic opponents in this race: co-sponsor it, and I’ll get your back, and say you don’t…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.25.16 — David Jolly gets his moment in the sun

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After David Jolly announced his proposal earlier this that would ban federal officeholders from fundraising while in office earlier this year, all of his Florida senate opponents on both sides of the aisle dismissed it immediately. Under the Pinellas County congressman’s “Stop Act,” elected federal officials would still be permitted to attend fundraisers and speak to donors. People would still be allowed to contribute to campaigns of their choosing. But under no circumstance would federal officeholders be allowed to personally ask people…

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David Jolly and his ‘Stop Act’ to be featured on 60 Minutes

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Set your DVR: Rep. David Jolly will be featured on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. Jolly is set to discuss the Stop Act, a bill he proposed earlier this year that makes it illegal for members of the U.S. House and Senate to personally solicit donations. Jolly, who is running for the U.S. Senate, filed the legislation in January. “Republicans, Democrats and independents can all agree on one thing — the public did not elect members of Congress to go to Washington…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.11.16 – Time for Obama to release those 28 pages in 9/11 report

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Happy Monday, y’all. I hope you had a good weekend. I’m feeling good this morning after my Golden State Warriors took care of the San Antonio Spurs last night with dispatch, and are only a victory away this Wednesday from capturing the greatest regular season record in NBA history.  The Masters also had some drama. But ltet’s talk about two other television programs of interest that aired yesterday: President Obama on Fox News Sunday and Bob Graham on 60 Minutes. It was Obama’s…

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