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Mitch Perry Report for 4.20.15 — Tampa’s Bicycle Blitzkrieg

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Happy 420 Day. There have been some interesting stories being produced by our friends over at the Tampa Bay Times over the past week. The paper returned to its coverage of Doug Hughes yesterday. Hughes is the Ruskin postal worker who hoped to raise awareness about the influence of big money in politics by violating national airspace to land his gyrocopter on Capital Hill. And while there has been some discussion about campaign finance reform in the wake of his actions,…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.16.15 — The $2 billion elephant in the Capitol

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For those of you out there less enamored by Florida’s reputation as the “Gunshine State,” there was some positive news out of Tallahassee Wednesday night. That proposal that would give school superintendents the ability to designate a school district employee or volunteer to carry a concealed weapon on a school campus was scheduled on the docket Wednesday in the Senate Education Committee. Committee Chairman John Legg, though, exercised his authority and said it wouldn’t come up again in his committee.…

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Bob Buckhorn among the speakers at Fight for 15 protest in Tampa

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The “Fight for 15” movement for fast-food and retailer workers advocating for higher wages and better treatment has been ongoing for over two years now, and on this Tax Day culminated in a protests in over 200 cities across the country, including events at City Hall in St. Petersburg and later in the day in Tampa’s Copeland Park. Although the movement has focused on fast food workers, the effort – organized by the Service Employees International Union – has also…

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In alternate universe of St. Pete Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Pier would already be gone

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Imagine a world where Bob Buckhorn is the mayor of St. Pete, not Tampa. According to his version of that parallel universe, the Pier as it exists today would not be there. If that were the case, the rampant bickering among inverted-pyramid-loving activists and city leaders trying to figure out what in the bejesus to do about this longstanding dilemma wouldn’t really be a thing. Sure there’d be a bunch of pissed off activists complaining they didn’t have a say…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.8.15 — Medicaid expansion. Again.

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Greetings from the Motel 6 off the Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee, where things are getting increasingly hot in the Capitol. Literally. Today’s temperatures are supposed to hover near 90 degrees. That’s not a record, but temps here — like in the Tampa Bay area — are consistently running around 7-8 degrees warmer than usual for early spring. And it’s getting hot between the state Senate, House and Gov. Rick Scott regarding — what else? — Medicaid expansion. Yesterday a Senate committee…

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Bob Buckhorn embraces Patrick Murphy’s ideology as he gives his endorsement in Tampa

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.Although he didn’t call Patrick Murphy his “soulmate” today, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn otherwise gave as full throated endorsement as any politician can  when he announced his full-fledged support for South Florida U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy in next year’s race for Senate. “I think he is where I am ideologically — which is in the center of that spectrum,” Buckhorn said of Murphy’s centrist political leanings at a press conference held in Curtis Hixon Park. The two were also in synch sartorially,…

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Bob Buckhorn to endorse Patrick Murphy for U.S. Senate

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Sources close to the Palm Beach U.S. representative’s camp confirm to Florida Politics that Bob Buckhorn will announce his endorsement of Patrick Murphy in his bid to run for the U.S. Senate seat likely left vacant as Marco Rubio moves toward a run for president. Buckhorn and Murphy will address the press and public at downtown Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. The move comes amid speculation of a heated primary challenge to Murphy from the left, as the Florida Democratic Progressive Caucus has signaled their…

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