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In Fort Lauderdale, Hillary Clinton slams Jeb Bush

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In the first event of 2015 where presidential candidates from both major political parties were present, Hillary Clinton blasted Jeb Bush during her speech at the National Urban League annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale. Clinton never mentioned Bush’s name. Instead she mocked the name of his political action committee, Right to Rise, that raised more than $100 million through the first six months of this year. “The real test of a candidate’s commitment is not whether we come to speak at your national conference,” Clinton…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.28.15 — Hillary Clinton goes green

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It hasn’t been a great week for Hillary Clinton. Forget all the hullabaloo regarding the emails that she brought forward that have been found by the Inspector General to be classified, though she earlier claimed none were. That will or won’t be sorted out in due time. More troublesome are some of the numbers coming in from the NBC News/Marist Poll released on Sunday, specifically of her numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire. Her net favorability — those who view her positively minus those…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.24.15 — Scary movies

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Happy Friday, everyone. I was going to write about another subject for today, but it feels a bit trivial compared to the big headline of the morning. I know that the overwhelming majority of gun owners in America are responsible. But even if there’s only a tiny, tiny percentage of people who are irresponsible with guns in this country (of which there are reportedly around 300 million floating around), it’s a problem. This morning Americans are awakening to yet another gun shooting…

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Report: Higher deficits, more uninsured if health law tossed

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Repealing President Barack Obama‘s signature health care law would modestly increase the budget deficit, while the number of uninsured Americans would rise by more than 20 million, said a nonpartisan government study released Friday. The report from the Congressional Budget Office comes ahead of a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling that could have a major impact on the Affordable Care Act, nullifying health insurance subsidies for some 6 million people in more than 30 states. The budget analysts said that…

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Rick Scott OKs a data base, more vaccines and burial transmit permits

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Rick Scott vetoed a healthcare bill on Wednesday but he signed many others into law. Below is a list of the bills and a brief description of what they do from the legislative bill analyses. HB 79 Creates the Crisis Stabilization Services Utilization Data Base and requires the Department of Children and Families to develop standards for the collection, storage, transmittal and analysis of data that the managing entities and public receiving facilities must adhere to. Managing entities must comply…

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Today on Context Florida: Mike Huckabee, anonymity, Billy Carter and good writing

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Today on Context Florida: Martin Dyckman writes of a Republican running for president who promises unequivocally to “protect Social Security and Medicare … to kill anything that poses a threat to the promises we have made to America’s seniors.” But he’s also calling for a “tax reform” that would bleed seniors as they’ve never been bled before. What do you call such a politician? Huckster, for one. Mike Huckabee, to be specific. Anonymity and pseudonymity have been key threads in the…

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Kathy Castor & Tampa health officials celebrate signing of “Doc Fix” Medicare bill

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President Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders of both parties at the White House later this afternoon to cheer on a recently passed bill that makes reforms to Medicare. The bill eliminated Congress’s two-decade old Medicare payment problems known as the “doc fix,” and has been hailed as a rare form of bipartisanship in Washington. “If this bill had not gone forth, we were looking at a 21 percent cut in Medicare funding for physicians,” said Dr. Bradley Fouraker,…

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