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Todd Wilcox brings ground-level view of foreign affairs to U.S. Senate race

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If companies want to know who to trust to do business in civil-war-torn Ukraine, they might contact Maitland-based Strategic Risk Management LLC. for privately-researched background intelligence reports. Companies that need to move goods through the dicier parts of Afghanistan might call on Winter Park-based Innovative Logistics LLC to handle the planes, warehouses, trucks and security. And if the U.S. Department of Defense, or a trusted American ally, wants special operations training and support services to prepare missions in some other unstable backwater nation, they might turn…

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Group sponsoring Ron DeSantis appearance in Tampa denounced for associations with the Koch Brothers

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Hours before he was scheduled to speak about military issues at an event at the Cuban Club in Ybor City on Friday night, the Democratic opposition group American Bridge 21st Century, is blasting the group sponsoring the event featuring GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ron DeSantis. The event is being produced by the Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), a veterans group that has been funded by the Koch Brothers. “This propped-up veterans group by the Kochs isn’t fooling anyone. Never would a legitimate veterans’ group…

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Marco Rubio may be ready to endorse in U.S. Senate race, defends his own pace

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Florida’s outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio suggested Monday he may be ready to endorse the Republican he wants to follow him into the office. “I’ll have something to say about that in the next couple of days,” Rubio said Monday after meeting in Orlando with Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs to discuss Central Florida’s heroin crisis. Rubio also insisted his recent flurry of activity on Florida issues is not a change in his activity level, but a change in media coverage…

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Three of Carlos Beruff’s U.S. Senate opponents speak out on his “animal” remark

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Three more opponents of Florida GOP Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff are criticizing him after it was reported Sunday that he referred to President Obama as “an animal” while speaking in front of a group of St. John’s County Republicans last week. “Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he’s an animal, OK — seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military under not one, not…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.16.16 – Carlos Beruff is NOT apologizing regarding Obama remark

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Carlos Beruff made some news yesterday, but despite his aggressive response, it can’t be marked up as a good day for the Republican candidate for Senate. The Manatee County developer prides himself on not being politically correct, and he’s not absolutely not apologizing after the Huffington Post reported over the weekend (with video) of Beruff calling President Obama “an animal” in a speech last week in St. John’s County. “Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he’s an…

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Ron DeSantis slams White House over the “marketing” of Iran nuclear deal

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U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis says that while he always opposed the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran last year, he thought at worst they were simply naive about the Iranian regime. But after comments made last week by a top White House adviser on the marketing of the proposal, he says that “it was all a fraud.” “Basically this deal was initiated with Iran’s hardliners, negotiated with Iran’s hardliners, and is empowering Iran’s hardliners,” the Ponte Vedra Beach GOP Congressman and 2016 Senate candidate said…

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Joe Biden plays nice while picking sides in Florida Senate race

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Vice President Joe Biden might be taking sides in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, but unlike Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, he’s not getting nasty about it. Biden campaigned with U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy at a downtown Orlando soul food restaurant Thursday, the day after Reid quarreled with Murphy’s opponent, Congressman Alan Grayson. Reid has asked Grayson to drop out of the race, saying he has no moral compass, is disgraceful and that he has a low opinion of him. Biden,…

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