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Jeb Bush campaign reaches out to Fox News TV guru for image work

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At long last, Jeb Bush is getting serious about his image. After several weak debate performances and a series of less-than-stellar broadcast interviews, the Republican presidential candidate is reaching out for help improving his television image. Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine writes that Bush is turning to the same person Roger Ailes uses to groom Fox News anchors. Bush will be coached by image-maker Jon Kraushar, who has worked with Ailes since the 1980s when the two were partners…

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Donald Trump says ads are coming to early-voting states

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’s finally planning to put some money on the line while several of his rivals receive new attention and support. The billionaire businessman, who has so far relied on the news media to promote his unorthodox campaign, said in an interview Tuesday night on Fox News that his campaign will begin paid advertising soon in the first states to vote in the GOP nomination race. “We’re going to start some ads, I think, over…

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ADLF files ethics complaint against Marco Rubio

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The American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF) has filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Marco Rubio for potential violations of Senate ethics rules as well as federal law. In a letter to Senate Ethics Chairman Johnny Isakson from Georgia and Vice Chairwoman Barbara Boxer from California, ADLF says that, based on news reports, they believe Rubio has violated: (1) 31 U.S.C. § 1301(a), which provides that official resources made be used only for the purposes for…

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Rick Scott on Fox News: ‘People want an outsider’

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Gov. Rick Scott — away in Democratic New York on another out-of-state trip to entice businesses to relocate jobs to Florida — is not known for being particularly chatty with his home-state press corps, but he did make time to speak with FOX New’s Neil Cavuto on Wednesday afternoon. Scott, as usual, hewed closely to his well-worn talking points about the paramount importance of job creation and generally stayed upbeat, avoiding taking sides in either the Democratic or Republican 2016 White House primaries…

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Off the air: Donald Trump boycotts Fox News over campaign coverage

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Donald Trump says he’s done appearing on Fox News shows for the “foreseeable future” because he doesn’t like the network’s coverage of his presidential campaign. The billionaire businessman and leading Republican candidate tweets that Fox News has been treating him “very unfairly” and that he’s stop appearing on its shows. Trump has been feuding with the network since first GOP primary debate, when he objected to the moderators’ questions. There was a brief detente. But the feud escalated this week,…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.16.15 — Sam Rashid ignores Rick Scott’s call to step down from Aviation Authority

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Sam Rashid is still a member of the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority as of 7 a.m. this morning, despite the fact that by doing so, he is directly snubbing Gov. Rick Scott, the man who appointed him to the agency last year and is now calling on him to resign from the board. “Governor Scott expects him to resign and would accept his resignation,” spokeswoman Jackie Schutz tells the Tampa Bay Times’ Steve Contorno in this morning’s paper. The reason why the governor is telling Sam Rashid…

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Ahead of GOP debate, NextGen Climate uses Ronald Reagan clip to push on climate change

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NextGen Climate, the San Francisco-based environmental organization dedicated to putting climate change at the forefront of American politics, has released a new digital ad featuring footage of Ronald Reagan as a way to prod Republicans to begin addressing climate change. The ad, called “Common Sense,” featuring the former president addressing Congress and the nation in his 1986 State of the Union Speech. “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, but it’s common sense,” Reagan says. The video then…

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