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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. It takes a village to raise a candidate. Campaign staff. Supporters. Volunteers. And donors. Lots and lots of donors. Those donors turned out in full force in April, giving millions of dollars to legislative candidates and political committees across the state. They gave in droves — to candidates in fierce re-election campaigns and those running…

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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THE Q-POLL … Happy birthday to one of my best friends, Alan Suskey. Readers know I must really like Suskey by all the nice things I write about him. That, or he’s paying me a lot of money. HOW DO WE INTERPRET THE Q-POLL SHOWING HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP TIED…

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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. UNVEILED TODAY — THE 30-UNDER-30 RISING STARS OF FLORIDA POLITICS Call them the rising stars, the young guns, or the next generation of Florida’s political class. But whatever you do, don’t call them under-achievers. The 2016 class of “30 under 30” is involved in every aspect of Florida’s political world. They are fundraisers and lobbyists;…

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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. NEVER MEANS NEVER Not now. Not ever. That’s the message at the heart of the #NeverTrump movement. While some Republicans have tepidly backed their party’s presumptive nominees, other continue to say under no circumstance will they vote for Donald Trump. Want to find some of the leaders in the movement? Look no further than the…

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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine’s statewide profile grew larger this week when he unveiled his proposal on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage in his city ultimately to $13.31 by 2020. If the City Commission approves the measure next week, it will undoubtedly be challenged in court, as it violates a 2005 Florida law that…

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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, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. DOWN GOES TED CRUZ Donald Trump said he couldn’t believe it, and really, who can? The New York City real estate magnate became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday night, smashing Ted Cruz by over 15 percentage points in Indiana (with 80 percent of the vote in), prompting Cruz to drop out of the…

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