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Tampa Democrats, including former Gov nominees, fundraising for Patrick Murphy tonight

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A group of Tampa-area Democrats, including the last three Democratic nominees for governor, are hosting a June 28 Tampa fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy‘s 2016 Senate campaign. Charlie Crist, Alex Sink and former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis join Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, former state Sen. Betty Castor and other high-profile Democrats at the Hyde Park home of Linda and Tom Scarritt, lead partner of the Scarritt Law Group. The $250-a-ticket event begins 5 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at 824…

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Bob Buckhorn makes centrist pitch before Capital Tiger Bay Club

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Mayor Bob Buckhorn addressed around 100 members of the Capital City Tiger Bay Club in Tallahassee early on Friday afternoon, where the Tampa Bay pol told a North Florida crowd of his mayoral, ideology-free vision for the state as a whole. The visit stoked speculation back home that the mayor — who was re-elected virtually without opposition earlier this year — is looking at a run for governor in 2018. To the chagrin of the political juice-hungry crowd at CTB, he addressed…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.26.15 — SCOTUS rule on ACA works out for Florida Republicans

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While we eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage later this morning, reverberations from the court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act continuestoday. The court ruled that Congress’ intention was to provide subsidies to those on the plan, regardless of where they lived. Supporters of the law insisted the case never should have gone all the way to the court, saying that it was little more than a scrivener’s error regarding the errant language that gave standing…

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Bob Buckhorn takes his act to Tally

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Bob Buckhorn travels to Tallahassee tomorrow in what is being seen as his first overt move to broaden his statewide appeal in advance of 2018, when he’ll likely take a run at the Democratic nomination for governor. The Tampa mayor will address the Tallahassee Tiger Bay Club on Friday, as well as tape an appearance on the local public affairs program, The Usual Suspects. The visit comes just a few months after Buckhorn breezed through a re-election “campaign,” complete with receiving a walloping…

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Tampa City Council debates personnel decision conflicts with Buckhorn administration

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Frustration between some members of the Tampa City Council and Mayor Bob Buckhorn erupted today at City Hall, after a lengthy discussion about hiring procedures for City Council aides. Last summer, Lorena Hardwick, an aide to Councilman Mike Suarez, asked to have her hours reduced to part-time so she could work on the campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. After initially being given instructions from the legal department that Hardwick could continue to work for the city part-time as well…

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USF funding projects survive Rick Scott’s veto pen

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than $461 million of projects of the state’s nearly $80 billion budget this morning, but the University of South Florida’s two pet projects survived his veto pen. That includes $17 million for relocating USF’s Morsani College of Medicine to its expected downtown Tampa home on the corner of Meridian Avenue and Channelside Drive, and $12.3 million for completing the construction of USF St. Petersburg’s Kate Tiedemann College of Business. Both items were part of the $300…

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Kathy Castor says she hates Tampa’s Confederate flag

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In the wake of the racist terrorist attack on nine black people at a historic church in Charleston, S.C., last week, there has been a renewed focus on the divisiveness of the Confederate flag ,which currently flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. Meanwhile, the biggest Confederate flag in the world (according to its supporters) currently flies proudly at the intersection of I-75 and I-4 in east Tampa, and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says she hates that it does. “I just hate it,” she…

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