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Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls Jeb Bush comments on phasing out Medicare a ‘massive blunder’

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Democrats such as DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz are seizing on comments that Jeb Bush made Wednesday night regarding Medicare. Speaking at an Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire, Bush said brought up the government-run healthcare program for seniors by first blasting television ads back in 2012 featuring a Paul Ryan-look-a-like pushing an elderly person off the cliff in a wheelchair. That ad was in reference to the Ryan budget that called for phasing Medicare out and instead make it into…

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While Jeb Bush calls for lobbying reforms, American Bridge blasts his economic record in Tally

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In a speech later today he’s scheduled to give at Florida State University, Jeb Bush will say that if elected president, he will use all of his influence to enact into law a six-year ban on lobbying for ex-members of the House and Senate. The former Florida Governor returns to the state capitol to give a speech on government reform at 10 a.m. on the FSU campus, and according to the Washington Examiner, he observed as governor how lobbyists and legislators grew too comfortable in each’s…

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ACLU to launch major political, advocacy campaign in 2016 for sentencing reform

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Frustrated by political gridlock on Capitol Hill, the American Civil Liberties Union is mounting an ambitious campaign to boost its effectiveness starting with a political advocacy program for 2016 and beyond. With $80 million in commitments, both promised and collected, for a 501(c)(4) tax exempt organization, ACLU officials have retained veteran Democratic operative Karin Johanson as its newly established national political director. Currently the campaign manager for the Coalition to Stop Fast Track — which opposes “secretive negotiations” of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.2.15 — Senators doing their jobs

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Blame Rand Paul. The U.S. Senate is in session again today, and will be voting on amendments to the USA Freedom Act, which represents the first significant rollback of NSA surveillance that has been approved. Or at least that’s what the House did. Now the Senate will be working on a bill today, which means Marco Rubio will be in Washington and not Orlando for Rick Scott’s Economic Summit taking place at Disney World. Rubio will appear via video this morning…

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NextGen Climate to bring ‘Koch Brothers Ark’ to Rick Scott’s summit in Orlando

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Last fall, the environmental activist group NextGen Climate built an ark that they brought to the Sunshine State to illustrate Gov. Rick Scott’s reluctance to talk about climate change. The San Francisco-based group announced today that they’ll be bringing back that ark tomorrow in Orlando, where no fewer than 10 GOP presidential candidates will be appearing at the governor’s economic summit conference, the latest GOP “cattle call” of the 2015-2016 campaign. It’s no longer the “Rick Scott Ark Tour.” NextGen Climate…

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Strange bedfellows: Conservative solar supporters funded by traditional green groups

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When Debbie Dooley makes a case for solar power, she isn’t falling back on the same old environmental arguments. The Tea Party firebrand from Woodstock, Ga., talks about property rights, national security, and the free market. To Barry Goldwater, Jr., the former Republican congressman, support for solar energy is a conservative stance against power utilities that are trying to “limit energy choice.” Right-leaning pro-solar groups, like those founded by Dooley and Goldwater, might offer evidence – at least in some media…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.8.15 –The MOSI-USF Football stadium dilemma

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Hillsborough County Commissioners (and Administrator Mike Merrill) are gung ho on having the folks who run the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) explore an opportunity to move their facility into downtown Tampa, where it could be a part of Jeff Vinik’s grand plans to redevelop the Channelside area, even though there are serious questions about how productive such a move would be. As La Gaceta’s Patrick Manteiga noted last week, there’s the little issue about available parking in the area that has plagued…

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