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Mitch Perry Report for 5.26.16 – How much will the political parties change after this year?

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he Republican Party really be serious about rejiggering the primary calendar, as has reported in places like the New York Times and the Boston Globe earlier this week? We’ve heard a lot in the past few weeks how presidential politics have changed – perhaps forever – by the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Whether that’s actually true remains to be seen, obviously. According to the Times’ Jeremy Peters, GOP party activists are also talking up the idea of…

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David Jolly says ideally he’d like to ban all TV political advertising

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David Jolly says that he asked Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson that if they co-sponsored his legislation banning federal officeholders from directly soliciting campaign contributions, he would have been content if they continued to fundraise, even possibly against him this fall. “I took the pledge in January. I no longer directly solicit money,” the Pinellas County GOP Congressman and senate candidate said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “But I’d beg my Democratic opponents in this race: co-sponsor it, and I’ll get your back, and say you don’t…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.18.16 – Can bill to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudis’ go forward?

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Good Monday morning. I’ve a quick question for you. Is Saudi Arabia really one of our allies in the Middle East? Some conservatives, like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, insist they are, and says that one of many reasons why we should be angry at Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is because it upset the Saudis, allegedly one of our true friends in that region. This issue is about to be revisited, after the NY Times reported on Friday that the Saudi Arabian government…

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Kathy Castor highlights U.S. women’s soccer team pay dispute on Equal Pay Day

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Five women with the 2015 World Cup winning U.S. women’s soccer team filed a wage-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last month, seeking equal pay. “Simply put, we’re sick of being treated like second-class citizens. It wears on you after a while. And we are done with it,” wrote Carli Lloyd, one of those five players, in an opinion piece published Monday in the New York Times. Citing figures from the U.S. Soccer Federation, the lawsuit claims that even though…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.30.16 – What happened to the moderate, affable Pat McCrory?

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Back in 2009-2010, the folks behind the Moving Hillsborough Forward brought Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory to Tampa on three different occasions to advise local officials on how to pass the one-cent sales tax referendum for transit on the November 2010 ballot in Hillsborough County. As we all remember, the measure went down to a resounding defeat, but McCrory came off to most of the local media as well. I used the adjective “engaging” on at least one occasion to describe McCrory. “Affable”…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.8.16 – Bloomy, we hardly knew ye

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To the surprise of virtually anybody, Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that he will not run for president as an independent this year. Writing on um,  Bloomberg View, the former New York City Mayor announced that after serious contemplation, he will not run this year, despite the concerns he has about the campaigns from both the Democratic and Republican parties. “As the race stands now, with Republicans in charge of both Houses, there is a good chance that my candidacy could…

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Alan Grayson calls Harry Reid “human cash register” in Tiger Bay appearance

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U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson blasted U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Friday, a week after Reid called on him to quit the race for U.S. Senate in Florida. A New York Times report about a Grayson hedge fund moved Reid to make his comment and to further say, “Grayson claims to be a progressive, but it seems like he has no moral compass.” Grayson replied by saying that with Reid himself also under investigation he should hardly be preaching about a moral compass. In the investigation of…

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