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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, and Jim Rosica. CONTINUING OUR HYPER FOCUS ON THE UPCOMING PRIMARY ELECTIONS (although many of you expressed regret that we were shelving our Olympic coverage)… THE YEAR OF THE OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE IN FLORIDA POLITICS – Four openly gay Orlando-area Democratic candidates are running for election in federal and state races this year; Valleri Crabtree in Florida’s 9th Congressional District centered in south…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, and Jim Rosica. ENOUGH ABOUT THE OLYMPICS… … there are only 14 days left before Florida voters cast their ballots in the state’s primary elections. That is for the voters who will have not already mailed in their ballot. With this in mind, Sunburn is putting aside the Olympics coverage (that was fun, wasn’t it) and even the coverage of…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, and Jim Rosica. RIO STILL STRUGGLES WITH LITANY OF PROBLEMS THROUGH 1ST WEEK Rows of empty seats, green water, controlled explosions, stray bullets, the killing of a young policeman in a favela, muggings of team officials, an attack on a media bus, spotty weather, snarled traffic, long travel distances and lack of a Carnival atmosphere. Halfway through the Olympics, Rio…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. IF YOU’RE UP DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK UP! We launched Sunburn an hour earlier than usual, hoping this message will arrive in time for readers to gaze at the Perseid meteor shower. Thursday night into early Friday, the annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors.…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. KATIE LEDECKY WINS THIRD GOLD WITH DOMINATING RELAY SWIM via Paul Newberry of the Associated Press – Ledecky was the fastest swimmer in the pool, and she brought her American teammates along for the ride. The 19-year-old turned in another overpowering performance to carry the United States to victory in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, capturing her third gold and…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. HOW KATIE LEDECKY STOPPED HERSELF FROM VOMITING AND WON ANOTHER GOLD via Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports – Ledecky almost puked in the middle of an Olympic pool Tuesday night. The feeling hit her with 25 meters left in the 200-meter freestyle race, the one distance that sets her nerves aflutter. This wasn’t butterflies, though. It was her body…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. JACKSONVILLE’S RYAN MURPHY WINS GOLD IN 100 BACK via Clayton Freeman of the Florida Times-Union – With a splendid closing sprint in his first Olympic final, the Bolles School graduate capped a golden 24 hours for Jacksonville swimming. Murphy won the gold medal in Olympic record time for the United States in the men’s 100-meter backstroke Monday in Rio…

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