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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. STAT OF THE DAY — There are now more registered Republicans (225,976) in bellwether Pinellas County than there are registered Democrats (225,957). Of course, NPA (178,687) is the fastest-growing cohort, but the fact that progressive, environmentally-conscious Pinellas is now a red county is emblematic of much of what is wrong with the Florida Democratic Party.…

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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 GOV. RICK SCOTT ORDERS FLAGS TO HALF-STAFF IN WAKE OF BRUSSELS ATTACKS via Christina Webb of the Palm Beach Post – The flags will be at half-staff until sunset Monday, according to a proclamation signed by Scott. Scott also tweeted a response to the attacks, saying he is thankful to military and law enforcement officers “for keeping us safe.” TWEET,…

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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. In yesterday’s Sunburn, we urged you to start paying attention to the interesting, multi-faceted race to replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate. As a follow-up to that piece, we’d like to point out just how intriguing the 2016 cycle is shaping up to be for congressional races. “This election cycle has the potential to…

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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. HELLO, SPRING! ISN’T IT TIME WE START PAYING ATTENTION TO FLORIDA’S U.S. SENATE RACE?  I can’t imagine that when The Associated Press hired Sergio Bustos away from the Miami Herald to serve as a politics reporters for its Miami bureau that the AP envisioned both Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio being out of the presidential race before the first day of spring.…

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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. I GET OFF A CRUISE AND THE 2018 ELECTIONS GET UNDERWAY… … at least that’s what it felt like to me as I disembarked from the Disney Magic after four wonderful days away from Sunburn (well, truth be told, there’s a patch of sunburn on top of my head). Two stories dominated Thursday’s Florida politics news, 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, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica ONE DAY MORE from Les Miserables One day more! Another day, another destiny. This never-ending road to Calvary … Tomorrow we’ll be far away, Tomorrow is the judgement day Tomorrow we’ll discover What our God in Heaven has in store! One more dawn One more day One day more! HOW WE GOT HERE Two of 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 DEBATE NIGHT IN AMERICA Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate from the University of Miami on CNN could be the last encounter with the remaining four candidates in the race engaging together. Following Tuesday’s primaries, only Ted Cruz appears to have a possibility of cutting off Donald Trump’s race to the required 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.…

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