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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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If Charlie Crist runs and loses, it’ll be the first Florida political hat trick in 95 years

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Charlie Crist, the embodiment of “if at first you don’t succeed …,” could ride that adage into the record books. The former, and possible future, candidate – if he should seek Florida’s redrawn 13th Congressional District – could be the first Floridian in 95 years to achieve a political “hat-trick,” losing gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House races. According to number crunchers at the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics blog, Republican John Cheney was the last major party Sunshine State nominee…

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The Charlie Crist saga begins anew …

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It’s only been a couple of days since former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist tweeted his intentions to run for Congressional District 13 and both SaintPetersblog and Florida Politics have been on top of the coverage. Extensive Enterprises head hauncho Peter Schorsch has written about the irony in gerrymandered districts opening the door for yet another political bid. It was the 1992 “Bug Splat” district in South St. Pete, Manatee, Hillsborough and Polk counties that got him his start in the…

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David Jolly supports expanding Americans ability to travel to Cuba

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Monday’s official resumption of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba was met with full throated denunciations from Republican elected officials up and down the Sunshine State, and David Jolly, the latest entrant into the GOP 2016 Senate race, was no exception. “Look, I oppose the president’s decision,” Jolly told Florida Politics yesterday regarding President Obama’s diplomatic breakthrough with Cuba that he announced last December. “I think it has been too aggressive, too quickly.” But there is one place where Jolly has…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.21.15 — Bill McCollum isn’t seriously thinking of running for Senate. Is he?

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I was going to opine on John Kasich entering the GOP presidential contest this morning, but let’s get to that tomorrow. Instead, let’s talk about the Florida U.S. Senate race, now that David Jolly is officially in the race, along with U.S. Ron DeSantis, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and retired CIA contractor Todd Wilcox. Lately the conventional wisdom from at least two Florida political reporters/analysts is that with such a relatively unknown field, former Central Florida U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum could be viable if…

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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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Kathy Castor says the economic sanctions on Cuba need to go

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For the first time since severing ties in 1961, the U.S. and Cuba reopened embassies in each other’s capitals today. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla traveled to the Cuban Embassy in Washington to raise his country’s flag, an event that was broadcast live on the island’s state-run TV. Tampa Bay area Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor has been a passionate advocate for liberalizing relations with the Communist island since she traveled there in 2013.  She attended today’s flag-raising ceremony at the Cuban embassy,…

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