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Email insights: David Jolly says he’s already under attack by special interests

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Just hours after launching his 2016 U.S. Senate bid, Congressman David Jolly is under attack. But his campaign is already busy preparing. According to a new email from campaign manager Nick Hansen, the Washington D.C. special interest establishment wasted no time pouncing on the Indian Shores Republican, who is seeking Marco Rubio’s open Senate seat. “Organizations that are part of the selfish politics in Washington put loyalty to ideological scorecards over allegiance to our nation,” Hansen writes. Jolly is “running…

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Poll of redrawn CD 13 reveals just how close Charlie Crist vs. Rick Baker could be

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A new survey from St. Pete Polls of a newly reconfigured Congressional District 13 map shows that a potential Charlie Crist vs. Rick Baker matchup could be a cliffhanger. The survey shows Crist leading with 46.2 percent of the vote, to Baker’s 42.2 percent. The remaining 11.6 percent are undecided. Baker leads the only declared Democrat in the CD 13 race, Eric Lynn, by a 51-28 percent margin, with 20 percent undecided. The Florida Supreme Court declared earlier this month that a total of…

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David Jolly releases first U.S. Senate campaign video

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U.S. Rep. David Jolly released the first official campaign video of his run for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Entitled simply “The Conservative,” the new ad touts his ideological credentials on issues related to education, Florida fisheries and veterans’ affairs in an appeal to the GOP base. “A little more than a year ago,” Jolly begins, Pinellas voters elected the 42-year-old lawmaker “in a special election that the pundits said we couldn’t win; a Republican couldn’t win; a conservative couldn’t win.” Jolly —…

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Rep. David Jolly running for Senate; ex-Gov. Charlie Crist eyes his seat

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Florida Congressman David Jolly announced Monday that he’s running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio, who is running for president, and former Gov. Charlie Crist said he’s eyeing Jolly’s seat. Jolly, a Republican who was elected to Congress in the spring of 2014, made the announcement to the media Monday morning. He was scheduled to hold a campaign rally later in the day. After the announcement, Crist posted on Facebook and tweeted that he will run…

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The irony of how redistricting has resurrected Charlie Crist

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While thinning files last week, I came across one labeled “Crist” and wondered whether to dump it. After successive losses for the U.S. Senate and for governor again, hadn’t Charlie reached the end of the line? No, I thought, something will happen to bring him back. The next day, something did. It was the Florida Supreme Court’s dramatic decision to order major changes in eight of Florida’s gerrymandered congressional districts. Among them are the 13th, lying exclusively within Pinellas County,…

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David Jolly — one year in as Pinellas’ representative in Washington

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On the last Friday in March, David Jolly spoke before nearly 500 Pinellas County Republicans at the party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner. While offering up a somewhat predictable attack on Barack Obama’s foreign policy initiatives, somewhat surprisingly, he also reserved plenty of disdain toward his fellow Republicans regarding a recent vote on the House budget. “There’s no reason for anybody to serve in the U.S Congress if one day they’re going to look back and see that the debt increased…

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PolitiFact: Charlie Justice’s ad tying Bill Young to Jack Abramoff is essentially baseless

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In a new Web ad, state Sen. Charlie Justice, D-St. Petersburg, comes armed with ominous music and some sloppy Photoshop work to link opponent Rep. C.W. Bill Young with jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff. But does Justice, who is seeking to unseat the 20-term Pinellas County Republican, have any facts to back up the association? PolitiFact Florida decided to break down the two-minute ad to find out. The ad describes “Abramoff Inc.” vs. “Young Inc.,” and spends two minutes drawing parallels…

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