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Mitch Perry Report for 8.23.16 – Terry McAuliffe fulfills his promise

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Donald Trump calls himself “the law and order candidate,” soĀ one shouldn’t be surprised about his reaction to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe‘s announcement yesterday that he had signed papersĀ restoringĀ the voting rights of nearly 13,000 ex-felons. Tump accused McAuliffe ofĀ ā€œgetting thousands of violent felons to the voting booth in an effort to cancel out the votes of both law enforcement and crime victims.ā€ Nevermind the fact that Virginia was just one of less than a handful of states that does not automatically…

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Putting the sugar industry’s history of political contributions into some much-needed context

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Last week, the Miami HeraldĀ Mary Ellen Klas reported that Floridaā€™s sugar industry has spent a ā€œwhoppingā€ $57.8 million over the last 22 years on political campaign contributions. This number sounds huge. But to those activelyĀ involved in Floridaā€™s political process, the number is not so whopping when youā€™re plying your trade as a health care, theme park/entertainment, utilities or telecommunications industry lobbyist. Hereā€™s why: while Florida sugar companies have contributed significantly, their contributions are right in line or below what other…

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On Mary Ellen Klas

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If you’ve been reading the blog today, you probably noticed the series of “SchorschĀ On (fill in the blank)” posts. That’s because I am working through a built-up to-do list many weeks in the making. I figured I’d skip the witty headlines and just dive into the subjects still stuck in my craw. Subjects like Mary Ellen Klas, the Tallahassee bureau chief for the Miami Herald. Don’t worry, this is not a Peter-hates-Adam-Smith rant against Klas. It’s the holidays after all.…

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Don’t go roping Will Weatherford into the Florida Senate’s mess, Andy Gardiner

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Thursday was a another wild dayĀ in the Florida Capitol, and particularly for the Senate, which seemed for a moment to have adopted a “not one damn” comma approach to itsĀ tweaks to the congressionalĀ “base map” drawn by staff earlier this month. Hours before, a story by the Miami Herald’sĀ Mary Ellen KlasĀ again stoked the fires of senatorial map-making malpractice. The article detailed new depositions and court documents related to the shadow redistricting process undertaken by the chamber, complete with inappropriate communications between…

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Report: Shadow process plagued Florida Senate redistricting

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Recently filed documents in Leon County Court as part of an ongoing legal challenge to the process unveiled a legislative underworld of lobbyists and consultants colluding with GOP lawmakers to help preserve the GOP’s 26-14 advantage and to protect incumbents. As recently reported by Mary Ellen KlasĀ in the Miami Herald, and previous to the documents’ release, in PoliticoĀ before that, the Senate’s redistricting process was mired in staged testimony, inappropriate communications between outside consultants and Senate staff, and supposedly neutral maps…

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Tampa Bay Times outperforms all the rest in statewide media competition

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The Tampa Bay Times won more awards than any other large-circulation news group in the state in the Florida Society of News Editors competition this year. According to the paper, the Times took away 12 first-place awards and 29 others. Among the first-place finishers this year were Adam Smith and Michael Kruse for work in the Features and Arts Writing category under ā€œKnowing Charlie Crist.ā€ Timesā€™ coverage of the Florida State University shooting took home a first place finish under…

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Reportersā€™ roundtable: Lawmakers back again, and again, to Tallahassee

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Expect Florida lawmakers to spend a long hot summer in Tallahassee. And they will be at the state Capitol for a pretty contentious fall as well. And they just might, with a little luck, be able to fit in a holiday break before returning for the 2016 legislativeĀ session in January. Thatā€™s the consensus of a handful of Capitol reporters who spoke Wednesday at a Florida Leadership luncheon co-hosted by Sachs Media Group about the busted 2015 session that failed to…

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