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In Manchester, Hillary Clinton says she’ll go beyond Bernie Sanders in regulating financial industry

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Speaking at a middle school gym on the outskirts of Manchester, Hillary Clinton delivered a forceful speech to New Hampshire voters six days before a primary election that polls show she is trailing. The former first lady, secretary of state and New York senator held the event just hours before she was to engage in a one-on-one town hall nationally televised encounter with Bernie Sanders. Sanders tough stance on Wall Street has been a vital part of his success in…

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Overwhelming support for David Jolly’s congressional reform measure, poll says

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David Jolly’s proposal that would ensure members of Congress and other federal officeholders can’t personally ask individuals for campaign contributions is a winner with the people of Florida. The Pinellas County Congressman and GOP U.S. Senate candidate’s announced his “Stop Act” eight days ago, and a St. Pete Polls survey released on Wednesday shows that 72 support the bill, with 18 percent opposing and 10 percent unsure. In announcing his legislation, Jolly cited outgoing New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel, who wrote in a New York…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.26.16 – Not the Happiest Place on Earth?

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We’ve heard a lot about illegal immigration on the campaign trail. Most of the GOP candidates decry it but say they embrace legal immigration. Like the H-1B visa. The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as in architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, and medicine. Under the visa, a US company can employ a foreign worker for up to six years.…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.8.16 – Obama still isn’t going to take your guns away from you

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The popular perception is that the Democratic Party as a whole stopped debating gun control after Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee and Bill Clinton‘s Arkansas in the 2000 election. Looking back on that perspective 16 years later, it’s evident that yes, they did stop debating the issue nationally, but that it doesn’t like those two states are likely to show up in the Blue column on election night anytime soon. There’s no doubt, however, that President Obama,…

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Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

Mitch Perry Report for 12.9.15 – Welcome to the new world of policing

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There is a story in Wednesday morning’s New York Times quoting a variety of police chiefs across the country bemoaning how the prevalence of video cameras are changing the way they do their jobs, and makes it harder for them – even when those cameras come from their own agencies. Since the fall of 2014 when incidents exploded in Ferguson and Staten Island, and Walter Scott was killed in South Carolina, a series of videotapes have shown police officers killing people who…

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FDP calls “unconscionable” Marco Rubio’s vote against wider gun background checks

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The FBI is now treating the San Bernardino shooting by a husband and wife that killed 14 and wounded 21 as an act of terrorism, a spokesman said on Friday. The announcement comes two days after the horrific attack, and a day after the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted down a gun control measure that would have extended FBI background checks on every firearms purchase. Four Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the measure but Marco Rubio was not one of them, a decision…

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In Sarasota, Donald Trump blasts at Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and especially the NY Times

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump helicoptered into Sarasota on Saturday afternoon for his first campaign appearance since Thanksgiving, and protesters were ready for him. Two times within the first 15 minutes of his speech to an overflow crowd at Robarts arena, protesters were led out by security, causing a delay as Trump waited for the demonstrators to leave the arena. However, unlike the report that surfaced last week that a Black Lives Matter protestor was assaulted by members of the crowd as…

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