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Florida Senate denounces Obama overture to Cuba

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President Obama‘s diplomatic breakthrough with Cuba last December has been met mostly with approval in the Tampa Bay area among political and business leaders. A delegation from Pinellas County visited the communist island for the first time in January, while the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce is planning another visit in May. And Hillsborough County area U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor will soon be hosting a summit on Cuba in Tampa. But that excitement is not shared across the state — and certainly…

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Florida Democratic Progressive Caucus wants Alan Grayson to run for Senate

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While South Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy is gathering statewide attention today as he becomes the first candidate to officially declare his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Marco Rubio, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party isn’t part of the cheering section for the two-term congressman. The Progressive Democratic Caucus announced this morning the results of a survey they recently took in which Orlando area U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson was its pick to become the party’s 2016 nominee, taking 63…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.17.15 — David Jolly to get a challenger?

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Happy St. Patrick Day to you and  yours. Well, it was quite a busy Monday. There were a number of stories I reported on yesterday, but none bigger locally than this: the Pinellas County Democratic Party already has one more candidate to challenge David Jolly in 2016 than they did last year. He’s Eric Lynn, and he’s definitely going to run for the Democratic nomination in the CD13 contest. (Check that. On Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for Lynn told Florida Politics that…

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Kathy Castor works with immigration attorneys on DACA & DAPA

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Last week 14 states filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Obama administration, which is trying to counter a Texas judge’s preliminary injunction blocking the executive order on immigration Obama issued in November. Florida and 25 other Republican-led states have sued the administration over the order. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen‘s ruling last month put on hold key parts of Obama’s executive order that would temporarily remove the threat of deportation for some immigrants and give them permission to apply for work…

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New poll shows Marco Rubio & Jeff Atwater leading Dems in 2016 Florida Senate race

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Marco Rubio looks to be in good shape for his re-election chances for the Senate next year, at least against South Florida Democratic U.S. Reps. Patrick Murphy and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. A Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday shows Rubio with double-digit leads over both Democrats. Against Murphy, he’s up 50-38 percent. Against Wasserman Schultz, it’s 53-36 percent. But if his presidential aspirations take off, Rubio may very well not run for re-election. If that’s the case, Mason Dixon shows that one…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.6.15 — the Democrats lack of bench strength transcends Florida

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It’s been written about ad nauseum about the lack of a strong Democratic bench in Florida. That certainly was the case in 2014, when the party had to resort to a flawed former Republican to become their gubernatorial nominee against an equally flawed current Republican. And that’s why Bob Buckhorn began raising campaign funds for a 2018 bid for governor in December, three months before his (inevitable) re-election victory for four (or three and a half?) more years as Tampa’s mayor.…

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Kathy Castor teams up with a Republican to address looming doctor shortage

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Florida will be short nearly 7,000 doctors by 2025 if more residency programs are not created throughout the state to keep up with demand, according to a study commissioned by the Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance and the Teaching Hospital Council last month. Physicians trained in psychiatry, general surgery, rheumatology, cancer treatment and thoracic surgery will likely be in the shortest supply, the study found. In response to the growing doctor shortage in Florida and the rest of the country,…

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