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Mitch Perry Report for 9.2.15 — Obama getting closer to win on Iran deal

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Like so many other Democrats who are coming out in support of the P+5 nuclear deal with Iran, Delaware U.S. Sen. Chris Coons said yesterday that while “it was a very hard choice,” he was going to back BarackĀ Obama in the most important foreign policy accord of his presidency. “I will support this agreement because it puts us on a known path of limiting Iranā€™s nuclear program for the next 15 years with the full support of the international community,”…

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Tim Schock files to oppose Jim Norman in Hillsborough County GOP District 6 race

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Jim Norman isn’t the only Republican to enter the increasingly wild Hillsborough County Commission District 6 race today. Tim Schock, who lost a primary challenge to Al Higginbotham in the GOP Primary for the countywide District 7 seat last August, filed today to run for the open seat in 2016. The 42-year-old strategies and operationsĀ consultant says that he doesn’t see himself as the “anti” Norman. “I am a new voice experienced in business and experienced in some of theĀ significant issues…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.1.15 — The meaning of Jim Norman’s return

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Jim Norman, who has been meeting with all types of folks in the community over the past few weeks and months in preparation for a return to local politics, makes it official today. He’s running for a seat on the Hillsborough County Commission. Actually, he made it official yesterday by making pilgrimages to the editorial board of theĀ Tampa TribuneĀ and sitting down withĀ Tampa Bay TimesĀ columnist Sue Carlton. Norman thinks he’s going to win this race, outright. He thinks the Democrats in…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.19.15 — Fun with Donald Trump’s immigration plans

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All summer, we’ve heard blowhards like Joe Scarborough inform the supposedly stuffy talking heads that they just don’t get it about the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. He likes to remind viewers that his brother, an alleged sophisticated Republican voter, really loves the Donald, and thus that explains why roughly 25 percent of Republican voters say they like him too in most polls. And he says that the message is a potent one. Yes, perhaps to as much as a…

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Tim Schock considering entering Hillsborough County Commission District 6 race

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Although there is lots ofĀ chatter about Jim Norman entering the race for the Hillsborough County Commission District 6 seat, as of now,Ā there is only one Republican who has entered the race (Thomas Avino). Meanwhile, Democrats Brian Willis and Pat Kemp have been campaigning for months, and were recently joined by former commissioner and Tampa City Councilman Tom Scott. Tim Schock could be that first Republican to enter the contest. The 42-year-old resident of Tampa’s Beach Park is the president of…

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Jim Norman speaks: The former Hillsborough county commissioner is plotting a comeback

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Former Hillsborough County Commissioner and state Sen. Jim Norman wants you to know one thing — that everything youĀ thoughtĀ you knew about what happened to him in 2010 is wrong. ā€œThe media put a message out there that is just inaccurate, and Iā€™m really burned about that, so Iā€™m pretty fired up with setting the record straight,” he said in an interview conducted earlier this week. In case you’ve forgotten or werenā€™t around five years ago, ā€œthe messageā€ that Norman says…

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