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Mitch Perry Report for 9.4.15 — Sam Rashid is not backing down

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It was famed actor, celebrity and humanitarian George Clooney who once said that he doesn’t tweet. “Just because, I like to have a drink at night. I could easily say something stupid, and I also don’t think you need to be that available.” But there are lots of folks who just can’t help expressing themselves via the tools of modern technology. Like Sam Rashid. The GOP activist from East Hillsborough County has been busted for the second time this year for using inappropriate language on…

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New national GOP poll: Donald Trump 30%, Ben Carson 18%; Carson only one to beat Trump one-on-one

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Dr. Ben Carson‘s movement in the GOP presidential polls isn’t happening just in Iowa. A new Monmouth University national poll of the Republican presidential candidates released on Thursday shows the staying power of  real estate tycoon Donald Trump. He leads the field with 30 percent support — that’s 4 points higher than a similar poll taken before the first GOP debate last month. Carson has now slipped into second place with 18 percent, the only other candidate in double digits.…

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Tampa International Airport officials rally behind local members of Congress to fund next phases of Master Plan

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Officials with Tampa International Airport gave members of the congressional delegation and the media a tour today of the current construction going on during Phase I of the airport’s massive Master Plan, which will continue through 2017. The first part of the expansion kicked off last November, and will ultimately cost $953 million — funds that have already been accounted for. But there are two more phases to go through after that, and TIA CEO Joe Lopano said today that Congress…

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Four GOP U.S. Senate candidates make their cases at Florida GOP meeting in Tampa

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The four Republican candidates attempting to succeed Marco Rubio as the next Senator from Florida convened together for the first time on Saturday morning in Tampa. The four men – Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Congressmen David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, and former military veteran and CIA officer Todd Wilcox – are so little known that 86 percent of Floridians told Quinnpiac pollsters last week that they couldn’t form an opinion on any of them because of lack of knowledge about them. However, they literally have…

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GOP pollster schools RPOF on millennial generation’s priorities, how to win their vote

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The perception that the youth vote has always belongs to the Democrats is not accurate, says GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. In 2000, she says, George W. Bush and Al Gore split the youth vote, as well as those voters older than 65. But that split certainly occurred in 2008 and even more so in 2012, when Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 23 percentage points among voters under 30. However, Romney won the young white vote by 7 percentage points. The obvious…

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Alan Grayson’s first web ad pulled

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If you go back to our Tuesday story “Alan Grayson goes after Patrick Murphy’s voting record in web ad,” you won’t be able to click on the video located at the bottom of the post. That’s because the web ad has been pulled from YouTube. POLITICO’s Marc Caputo, who broke the story Friday morning, reports that a YouTube spokesman would only confirm that the Grayson campaign had taken down the ad. Grayson and Murphy are the top two contenders in…

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Effort to legalize pot in Florida goes public Friday

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Along with an effort to legalize medical marijuana  that could be on the 2016 ballot in Florida next year, there could also be another constitutional amendment: This one calls for the outright legalization of marijuana in the Sunshine State. Organizers and supporters of the Sensible Florida PAC will hold a news conference in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning to announce a petition drive for a proposed new amendment to the Florida Constitution that will permit adults to grow and use marijuana by directing…

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