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Gwen Graham co-sponsoring ban on seismic oil testing along Florida’s Atlantic coast

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U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham announced on Wednesday that she has joined several key Florida Democrats — plus one Republican, U.S. Rep. Bill Posey — in supporting a new bill on Capitol Hill to prevent seismic testing for oil along Florida’s eastern coast. The bill — H.R. 2276 — would partially contravene a decision made last year by the Obama administration to open up much of the Eastern Seaboard for oil exploration by way of sending powerful seismic sonar waves through the ocean. “North Florida…

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EMILY’S List endorses Gwen Graham for 2016 re-election bid

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Women’s political group EMILY’s List has endorsed U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham in her 2016 congressional re-election bid. With more than 3 million members, EMILY’s List — EMILY stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast — supports progressive women who support abortion rights. The group announced its endorsement on Twitter Tuesday morning. Getting the nod from EMILY’s List is far from insignificant. Founded by Democratic strategist Ellen Malcolm, the group is considered one of the “heavy hitters” of national politics. According…

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Today on Context Florida: Gwen Graham, terminal democracy, free speech and MLB playing fair

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch suggests the reason why Gwen Graham might be biding her time before endorsing fellow Democrat Patrick Murphy, who is seeking Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat. Rumor has it that Graham awaiting at least one more court ruling on reapportionment because there might be a chance the courts could throw out the congressional maps and create an east-west seat. This district would essentially squeeze Graham out of her little slice of North Florida Way paradise. Then,…

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The courtship of Gwen Graham

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This week’s news saw a few big-wig national Democrats step in and endorse Patrick Murphy. As one name after another lines up behind Murphy, one Democratic star still, longingly, remains silent. And we are going to take a guess why. Gwen Graham is exactly the kind of Democrat that should be holding hands with Mr. “Not-of-the-Very-Far-Left” Murphy. After all, she has already taken some decidedly centrist (or at least not bowing down to the left wing of the left wing)…

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Self-styled D.C. “outsider” Steve Southerland turns up as Washington lobbyist

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On the campaign trail, former U.S. Rep.  Steve Southerland would always take great pains to remind anyone who would listen — especially anyone with a camera — that he was from the “real America.” He’d tell you he wasn’t some snobby sophisticate with insider ties to Capitol Hill power players like his 2014 opponent Gwen Graham. By Southerland’s account, the admittedly polished Graham was so tied in with the Washington establishment she was “more Potomac than Gulf Coast,” to use the National Republican Congressional Committee’s phrase.…

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Congressional Democrats send letter to Rick Scott calling on him to drop lawsuit

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The letter writing surrounding Medicaid and Low Income Pool continues as ten Congressional Democrats sent a note to Gov. Rick Scott on Friday calling on him to drop his yet-to-be-filed lawsuit against the Obama Administration for coercing the state to expand Medicaid in order to continue to receive supplemental Medicaid funding for hospitals. “We are concerned that you intend to take Florida down a wasteful and counterproductive path with a frivolous and baseless lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and…

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Gwen Graham honors North Florida veteran’s charity on House floor

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U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham took to the House floor today to recognize a local North Florida charity honoring veterans and their caregivers. Warrior Beach Retreat is a nonprofit organization founded in 2009 by Linda Cope, after an improvised explosive device blast injured her son, Sargent Joshua Cope, in Baghdad, Iraq. According to the group’s website, the organization provides “a forum for combat-wounded warriors from the Iraq and Afghanistan war” to bring “honor and respect to those who served.” For two…

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