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Kathy Castor says Trump administration is using alternative facts to explain Medicaid cuts in Senate health care bill

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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is disputing the line being parroted by Trump administration officials that the GOP Senate health care bill won’t cut Medicaid costs by hundreds of billions of dollars. “That’s untrue, because they propose to cut about $850 billion out of Medicaid over the next decade, and you simply cannot cut that far without damaging the health of our neighbors,” Castor told reporters Monday at the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge located on the Tampa campus of the University of…

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Associated Builders and Contractors endorse Rick Baker for St. Pete Mayor

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The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is supporting Rick Baker for St. Petersburg Mayor. “Rick Baker understands that administrative red tape hurts small business. He will fix it,” said Jason Spears, Peninsular Mechanical, in a statement Thursday. Established in 1979, the Spears family owns Peninsular Mechanical, a 35-person small business that handles design-build air conditioning projects. “I’m honored to have the support of the Associated Builders and Contractors Gulf Coast Chapter,” said Baker, candidate for Mayor. “I look forward to…

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Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

How Super Tuesday played out on TV, cable networks

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Here’s a look at highlights from television coverage of Super Tuesday voting in the presidential campaign: — TRUMP’S PODIUM The broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC gave the campaign an hour of prime-time coverage, and Donald Trump put pressure on them right away. Trump has dominated coverage almost since his announcement last summer, and was in the midst of a hybrid news conference and victory speech in Florida at 10 p.m. ET when the broadcast networks began their election specials.…

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Alcohol prohibition repeal kick starter for “Whiskey and Wheaties” bill?

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The group Floridians for Fair Business Practices may be using the anniversary of the prohibition of alcohol as a kick starter to reinvigorate a stalled measure that would allow distilled alcohol sales in grocery stores. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on Jan. 16, 1919, making alcohol a prohibited substance. That amendment was repealed at the end of 1933. The group is comparing the decades-old repeal to Florida’s alcohol separation law calling it outdated and one that…

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Major networks spent 14 hours on candidate coverage in 2015, report shows

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Major networks have already spent more than 14 hours of nightly news airtime covering presidential candidates this year, according to a report detailing broadcast coverage of 2016 presidential candidates. The Tyndall Report, which tallies coverage from ABC, NBC and CBS, found the big three had spent a combined 857 minutes covering 2016 presidential campaigns during their nightly newscasts through the first 11 months of 2015. The figure is high enough to surpass penultimate year coverage totals in six of the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.24.15 – Immigration follies

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One of the factors in Donald Trump’s surprise success in the polls (other than it’s August of 2015 and doesn’t mean whole lot) is that the mainstream (i.e. television) media has pretty much handled him with kid gloves. And why not, since he’s ratings (and clickbait) gold? Maybe – just maybe, that tide is beginning to turn. On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, host George Stephanopolous grilled the former Apprentice star on his preposterous immigration plan to deport the more than 11 million undocumented in this…

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Majority of Floridians say Caitlyn Jenner’s transition won’t change society’s feelings

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Floridians have somewhat ambivalent feelings about Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn Jenner, but most adults in the Sunshine  State as well as in Ohio and Pennsylvania say there  is “a lot” or “some” social acceptance of transgender people in the nation today, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. The former Olympian’s transition has been covered extensively in the national media over the past few months. Jenner’s announcement on the April 24 edition of ABC’s 20/20 program was viewed by…

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