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Today on Context Florida: Gwen Graham, terminal democracy, free speech and MLB playing fair

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch suggests the reason why Gwen Graham might be biding her time before endorsing fellow Democrat Patrick Murphy, who is seeking Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat. Rumor has it that Graham awaiting at least one more court ruling on reapportionment because there might be a chance the courts could throw out the congressional maps and create an east-west seat. This district would essentially squeeze Graham out of her little slice of North Florida Way paradise. Then,…

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Patrick Murphy, David Jolly react to Ron DeSantis’ 2016 Senate bid

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On the heels of U.S. Rep. Ron DeDantis announcing a 2016 bid for the Republican nomination for Marco Rubio‘s seat in the U.S. Senate, Florida pols around the state are processing and reacting as the ever-shifting field of play shifts yet again. Pinellas U.S. Rep. David Jolly — also rumored to have taken an interest in the seat, following demurrals from Vern Buchanan and Jeff Atwater –– offered the following Wednesday morning: “I congratulate Ron on his decision to enter what will be a very…

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FreedomWorks PAC out early to endorse Ron DeSantis for U.S. Senate

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FreedomWorks PAC today endorsed Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) in his run for U.S. Senate in Florida. “I’m proud that Congressman DeSantis is the first endorsement of the 2016 cycle by FreedomWorks PAC. Congressman DeSantis is a fiscal conservative leader who will bring much-needed leadership on important issues to the U.S. Senate,” said FreedomWorks PAC chairman Adam Brandon in  a statement. “Congressman DeSantis has been a leader on everything from reducing federal spending, trying to stop ObamaCare, and opposing Common Core. I’m…

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Engage Cuba kicks off drive to end U.S. sanctions

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Last night in Miami, Alan Gross, the American citizen who was detained in Cuba by the Castro-led government for five years before his release last December, spoke at the inaugural fundraiser for New Cuba PAC, a political action committee created to push for the end of the U.S. 53-year economic embargo against the Communist island. “It was a magical night,” says James Williams with Engage Cuba, a new nonprofit advocacy group created in tandem with the new PAC. “It really felt in many ways…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.5.15 –Hillary Clinton takes on the Jeb & the GOP on immigration

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Hillary Clinton is in Las Vegas today, where she will reportedly call for a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., reviving the 2013 legislation that was co-sponsored by Marco Rubio in the Senate — before he walked away from it. She will say that the standard for a true solution is nothing less than “a full and equal path to citizenship,” a Clinton aide tells The Wall Street Journal. “She will say that…

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The courtship of Gwen Graham

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This week’s news saw a few big-wig national Democrats step in and endorse Patrick Murphy. As one name after another lines up behind Murphy, one Democratic star still, longingly, remains silent. And we are going to take a guess why. Gwen Graham is exactly the kind of Democrat that should be holding hands with Mr. “Not-of-the-Very-Far-Left” Murphy. After all, she has already taken some decidedly centrist (or at least not bowing down to the left wing of the left wing)…

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Florida Progressives not impressed by DSCC endorsement of Patrick Murphy for U.S. Senate

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Alan Grayson‘s entry into the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate for 2016 can’t come soon enough for the Florida Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus. Just a few hours after the Democratic Senate Congressional Committee endorsed Jupiter U.S Rep. Patrick Murphy in his bid for the U.S. Senate next year, the Progressive Caucus weighed in, and it wasn’t to congratulate Murphy. “The idea that a senator from Montana and Wall Street Democrats know better than rank-and-file Florida Democrats is both patronizing and unsurprising,” says…

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