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Bay area Republicans gather to officially open Jeb Bush’s statewide headquarters in Tampa

Published on September 10, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Jeb Bush may be struggling in the polls, but there was nothing but unadulterated love for him shown this afternoon in Tampa, where a bevy of local and state Republicans — highlighted by an appearance by Jeb Bush Jr. — gathered to officially open the former Florida governor’s statewide headquarters. Located in the Town N’ Country section in Northwest Tampa off of West Hillsborough Avenue, supporters crammed into a stuffy kitchen area to await the appearance of Bush Jr., the…

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Jim Norman speaks: The former Hillsborough county commissioner is plotting a comeback

Published on August 14, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Former Hillsborough County Commissioner and state Sen. Jim Norman wants you to know one thing — that everything you thought you knew about what happened to him in 2010 is wrong. “The media put a message out there that is just inaccurate, and I’m really burned about that, so I’m pretty fired up with setting the record straight,” he said in an interview conducted earlier this week. In case you’ve forgotten or weren’t around five years ago, “the message” that Norman says…

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Former Fox 13 personalities tout Eric Seidel’s candidacy for Hillsborough Clerk of the Courts

Published on June 26, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

In terms of local elections, Clerk of the Circuit Court generally resides as among the least sexy in terms of garnering much interest from the news media and the public. But that’s not the case in Hillsborough County this year, where there’s already been an unusual amount of attention paid to next year’s election, ever since soon-to-be-termed-out-of-office Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner announced right before Easter that he would challenge Democratic incumbent Pat Frank in 2016. Beckner said he believed Frank…

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