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Jeff Atwater has no regrets about not entering run for U.S. Senate

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It was thirteen months ago when Jeff Atwater stunned the Florida political world by announcing he would not run for the U.S. Senate in 2016. A Quinnipiac Poll taken just a week earlier showed him leading the two major Democratic candidates in the race, Congressmen Alan Grayson and Patrick Murphy, and he was considered to have by far the best name recognition of any Florida Republican considering entering the contest. His decision unfroze the field, with David Jolly, Ron DeSantis, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Todd Wilcox all filing to declare their candidacies in the months that followed…

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera attacks David Jolly on Planned Parenthood vote

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Carlos-Lopez Cantera is taking direct aim at David Jolly in a new digital ad released on Monday. The ad targets the Pinellas County Representative for refusing to support another congressional investigation into the allegations that Planned Parenthood harvested and trafficked in fetal body parts. “David Jolly refused to hold the largest abortion provider in the country accountable last week by voting to end the investigation of the harvesting and trafficking of fetal body parts,” said Courtney Alexander, a spokesperson for Lopez-Cantera. “What’s worse? This isn’t the first…

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Senate Majority PAC slated to spend $10.5M in Florida this fall

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A super PAC aimed at helping Democratic U.S. Senate candidates is prepared to spend more than $10 million in Florida this fall. The Senate Majority PAC, a political committee aimed at helping take back the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, said it is poised to spend $10.5 million on cable and broadcast advertisements in Florida starting in September. “Republicans are going to nominate a far right, Tea Party candidate who is out of touch with Florida’s middle-class,” said Shripal Shah,…

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Alan Grayson: At least they’re not calling me Hitler

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Democrat Alan Grayson has been dubbed “Angry Alan” by his Senate opponent, compared to Republican Donald Trump for his penchant for earning headlines with his mouth and has become the whipping post for some in the Washington party establishment who hope he loses Florida’s primary. But he said things could be worse. “At least they’re not calling me the Adolf Hitler of the Democratic Senate race. They haven’t quite gone there yet. It’s only a matter of time before they…

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Todd Wilcox brings ground-level view of foreign affairs to U.S. Senate race

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If companies want to know who to trust to do business in civil-war-torn Ukraine, they might contact Maitland-based Strategic Risk Management LLC. for privately-researched background intelligence reports. Companies that need to move goods through the dicier parts of Afghanistan might call on Winter Park-based Innovative Logistics LLC to handle the planes, warehouses, trucks and security. And if the U.S. Department of Defense, or a trusted American ally, wants special operations training and support services to prepare missions in some other unstable backwater nation, they might turn…

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera says he wants to ‘un-do’ things in Washington in new ad

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If you’ve heard GOP senate candidate Carlos Lopez-Cantera at all on the campaign trail, he makes his disdain for Washington and D.C.-based politicians very explicit. He’s doubling down on how ineffective he believes government has been in people’s lives with a new digital ad called “Contempt.” “I think anybody who serves in public office should have a little contempt for government in their heart,” proclaims Lopez-Cantera in the opening scene of the ad. “A lot of people say they want to Washington to ‘do this…

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Presidential school bathroom edict an ‘egregious overreach,’ says Carlos Lopez-Cantera

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A hot-button topic in Northeast Florida this week: the Barack Obama administration asserting that Title IX funding should be conditional on students being allowed to use the bathroom of their choice because of “gender identity” assertions. Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi have not weighed in on school bathrooms, but in Jacksonville for a stop on his campaign-related Florida First jobs tour, Thursday, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera did. Lopez-Cantera, running for the GOP nomination for Senate, called the Obama directive an “egregious…

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