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Ben Carson’s #SunshineSummit speech links personal to political

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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reminded a Sunshine Summit crowd that he’s a relatively new Florida resident. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, said he decided to move in 2013 from “the People’s Republic of Maryland,” seeking the Sunshine State’s lower tax climate. Carson then told a homespun tale about his Detroit upbringing and his mother, “the only one who believed in me.” She also knew how to stretch a dollar: “If she was secretary of the treasury, we would not…

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera tells #SunshineSummit, “I will bust my ass for Florida”

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Insiders promised that Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, one of the Republican candidates for U.S. Senator, would shake things up a bit in his Sunshine Summit speech. He delivered with one memorable shock line: “I will bust my ass for Florida every day and be part of the solutions and not part of the problems,” he told the crowd to applause. Lopez-Cantera was the final Senate candidate to speak at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Friday. The state’s second in command, seeking to replace…

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Todd Wilcox focuses on national security as national strength

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Todd Wilcox, a Florida GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, told Sunshine Summit participants that his non-politician, non-lawyer background is a plus for seeking office. Primary voters need to ask “which candidate has real-world experience,” he said. “Let’s face it, we’re all fed up with career politicians,” Wilcox said, a seeming dig at fellow Republican and U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a lawyer, former lobbyist and longtime staffer to the late U.S. Rep. Bill Young of Pinellas County. Jolly was later elected to…

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Lenny Curry and Richard Corcoran talk about cronyism, courage

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Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry gave a warning to Sunshine Summit attendees milling about in the hall. “You might want to come back in,” he said. “I’m getting ready to tell you how conservatives win elections.” The Republican Curry, former chair of the state GOP, beat incumbent Democratic Mayor Alvin Brown last year. He castigated Brown as putting his “cronies in at the highest level of government,” and slammed the former mayor’s city spending plans as “smoke and mirrors.” Twice mentioning the “liberal media”…

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Ted Cruz takes on Obama, federal government at Sunshine Summit

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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, eschewing tie and lectern, strode onto the Sunshine Summit stage and launched into a talk show host-style monologue, joking about the next Democratic debate being held at “Leavenworth,” home of the famous federal penitentiary. But the junior U.S. senator from Texas quickly got serious, reciting a laundry list of conservative crowd-favorite actions he’ll take if he wins the Oval Office. Cruz first said he’ll rescind “every constitutional and illegal action taken by this president,” mentioning Barack Obama‘s saying that…

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Marco Rubio says he doesn’t want to attack other Republicans

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Although Marco Rubio wasn’t scheduled to speak at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando until after 11:30 a.m. he gave a sneak preview of his remarks to a couple of hundred supporters in a ballroom about an hour earlier, where he was introduced by former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner. His speech came after a raucous day on the campaign trail, where Rubio and Ted Cruz exchanged criticism about who was more for “amnesty” and less for dealing with the problem…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.13.15 – All aboard the Sunshine Summit

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Happy Friday to you all, and what a weekend it will be as virtually the entire Republican presidential field (including Jim Gilmore!) makes its way to Orlando for the next two days for the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit. We’re off to the event shortly ourselves, so let’s be succinct: Will we hear more about who’s the toughest of them all when it comes to immigration? Let’s face it, none of the candidates are going to go as extreme…

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