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Senate confirms Alex Acosta as Donald Trump’s secretary of labor

Published on April 27, 2017 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Alex Acosta as Labor secretary, filling out President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet as he approaches his 100th day in office. The 60-38 vote confirms Acosta to the post. Once sworn as the nation’s 27th Labor secretary, the son of Cuban immigrants will lead a sprawling agency that enforces more than 180 federal laws covering about 10 million employers and 125 million workers. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., spoke for many Republicans with a statement issued just after…

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Koch network refusing to help Donald Trump

Published on July 31, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

From a luxury hotel on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, some of the nation’s most powerful Republican donors are rebelling against Donald Trump. Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, host of the exclusive weekend retreat, did not mention Trump by name as warned that political leaders are giving “frightening” answers to America’s challenges. One of his chief lieutenants was more direct as he made clear that Koch’s expansive political network would not use its tremendous resources to help Trump win this…

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.19.16 – Crunch time for Marco and Jeb in the Palmetto State

Published on February 19, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The Jeb Bush campaign furiously pushed back on a report by blogger Eric Erickson yesterday that staffers will stop being paid after tomorrow. Citing “sources close to the Bush campaign,” Erickson wrote that there was a phone call on Wednesday night in which the news leaked out that the Bush campaign was out of cash. That’s according to The Hill. The Bush team says it’s B.S.. The bigger issue is that the Bush campaign is in such dire straights that it’s…

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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott throws support behind Marco Rubio

Published on February 2, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster

Marco Rubio has snagged the endorsement of Sen. Tim Scott. Scott, a South Carolina Republican, endorsed Rubio on Tuesday morning, hours after the Florida Republican outperformed expectations in Iowa. Rubio finished in third place with 23 percent, better than recent polls had projected. “I believe the best days of our country are ahead of her — that 2016 may be the most important election,” Scott says in a video released by the Rubio campaign Tuesday morning. “I am putting my confidence…

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Lois Frankel knocks Marco Rubio’s absentee record, says Florida needs two senators

Published on October 23, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Marco Rubio is far from the first U.S. senator to miss a number of votes while he runs for president, but he seems to be getting bashed more than most. By most accounts, he’s missed up to 30 percent of his votes in the Senate this year. While that makes him worse than fellow GOP senators/presidential candidates like Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul this year, it’s not as bad as John Kerry in 2003 or Barack Obama in 2007. Kerry…

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Marco Rubio brings campaign back to South Carolina on Labor Day

Published on September 7, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Monday is returning to campaign in South Carolina. He last visited Aug. 28 when he delivered a speech outlining his policy toward China. The Florida senator will attend an early evening Labor Day town hall meeting hosted by Republican Sen. Tim Scott at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. The latest polls show Rubio is in the middle of the pack in a large field of GOP rivals, but the primary is not until…

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Activists in Tampa rally to decry deadly force of police actions against Walter Scott & Lavall Hall

Published on April 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The shooting death of Walter Scott as he was fleeing police last weekend has dominated national news coverage over the past week. But an incident in South Florida is equally troubling, said activists who convened in front of the federal building in Tampa on Saturday afternoon. Lavall Hall was a 25-year-old mentally ill black man who was fatally shot by police in Miami Gardens back in February. But in a 19-minute police video that Hall’s family released on Wednesday, an…

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