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Dwight Dudley says he wants more time at home, and is looking at running for judge in Pinellas County

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(updated) Dwight DudleyĀ willĀ notĀ be running for re-election in House District 68. The news surprised Tallahassee observers, but Dudley said on Monday that the recent death of his mother – in which he barely had time to say goodbye to her before she passed away as the 2016 session ended in March – was a catalyst in his decision making process. “In the last four years, I’ve been gone a lot,” the Democratic lawmaker said, referring Ā in particular last year, when theĀ Legislature…

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Sean Shaw to run for Tampa House District 61 seat

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Sean Shaw, who lost a bitterly fought contest to fellow Democrat Ed Narain in the HD 61 race in 2014, announced on Monday that he will run again for the seat, now that Narain has announced his candidacy for state Senate. “Ed Narain has been a fantastic Representative for our district,” said Shaw in a statement. “I had no plans to run this year until he announced he would campaign to continue his service in the Senate.Ā  I didn’t stop…

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Rod Smith makes state Senate run official with courthouse announcement in Gainesville

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Democrat Rod Smith announced Tuesday morning he’s again running for state Senate in the new Senate District 8. He spoke of his plans to a crowd of about 50 people in front of the Alachua County Civil Courthouse in Gainesville. Flanked by his family, the former State Attorney and state Senator stressed the importance of North Central Florida ā€œcoming together as a familyā€ to win the election, and implored the crowd to get involved in his campaign, whether through fundraising…

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Rod Smith teases ā€œmajor announcement,ā€ could be entering SD 8 race

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Standing in front of theĀ Alachua County Court House, former state Sen. Rod Smith teased a ā€œmajor announcementā€ for Tuesday morning, which almost certainly will mark his entry into the race for the newly redrawn Senate District 8. The Gainesville attorney and former Florida Democratic Party chair would be the second candidate in the contest, joining Gainesville Republican Rep. Keith Perry, who announced Friday he would skip his last term in House District 21 to run for the seat. Smith has…

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HD 9 candidate Loranne Ausley plans Tampa fundraiser

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, former CFO Alex Sink, and others are throwing a fundraiser in Tampa for fellow Democrat Loranne Ausley, who’s seeking a Tallahassee-area Florida House seat. Former state Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw, who worked for Sink, on Thursday tweetedĀ a photo of the invite to the event, to be held next Tuesday at Big Ray’s Fish Camp. The 52-year-old Ausley, a lawyer, seeks to retake the reliably Democratic district she held in 2000-08 now that current Rep. Michelle…

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Eric Lynn dismisses Charlie Crist’s first fundraising report in CD13 race

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Charlie Crist informed the public on Monday that he has raised more than $500,000 in his first three months as a candidate in Pinellas County’s 13th Congressional District contest. “We’re about to report an historic first quarter for a non-incumbent, non-special election Democrat in Florida,” Crist said in an email sent out to supporters. The former Republican turned independent turned Democrat is challenging Eric Lynn, a former Defense Department official in the Obama administration, for the Democratic nomination for Congress.…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.11.15 ā€” Bowe Bergdahl speaks

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Since he began campaigning for president this year, one part of Donald Trump’s stump speech that has remained intact is when he attacks Bowe Bergdahl, calling him a traitor and saying he should be executed for deserting. “We’re tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who’s a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,’ TrumpĀ said in Las Vegas last month.Ā “Thirty years ago, he would have been shot.” The lines always gets huge cheers, another example of the so-called lack of political…

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