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Patrick Murphy calls on Congress to vote to ban those on terrorist watch list from buying guns

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South Florida Congressman and Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy announced Tuesday his support for legislation that would ban people put on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy firearms in the U.S. That’s the same legislation that the GOP-led Congress rejected last week in both the House and the Senate, coming in the same week of the massacre in San Bernardino. Two Florida Republicans running for Senate, David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, voted against the bill in the House. “This bill isn’t…

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David Jolly says Donald Trump should leave presidential race after latest comment on Muslims

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Pinellas County Congressman and Florida Republican Senate candidate David Jolly is calling on Donald Trump to resign his bid for the presidency after the latest controversial comments the GOP front-runner made regarding banning all Muslims to enter the U.S. “While ISIS is beheading innocent people for their religious practices, Trump is betraying our freedoms,” Jolly said in a statement issued out early Tuesday morning. “His brutal, bullying bigotry runs contrary to the very principles our forefathers fought so hard to defend.  We are…

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David Jolly hails Chavista defeat in Venezuelan elections

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Voters may have rebuked Venezuela’s ruling United Social Party in elections Sunday, but Congressman David Jolly calls it a “victory for democracy.” In a statement Monday, the Indian Shores Republican hailed the victory of the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition party, which over the weekend defeated the long-ruling party of former President Hugo Chávez in the National Assembly. “Last night, socialism took a back seat to democracy,” said Jolly, who is in a hotly contested Republican primary to fill Marco Rubio‘s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.…

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Former Secret Service agent and Md. Senate candidate Dan Bongino says he’s thinking of entering Florida U.S. Senate race

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Republican Dan Bongino, the former Secret Service agent who nearly defeated an incumbent Democrats in race for Congress in Maryland last year, says that he is considering entering the Republican race for Senate in Florida, and will probably make up his mind by the beginning of 2016. Bonging moved to Palm City earlier this year, which immediately led to speculation that he was interested in the open 18th Congressional District seat in 2016 currently held by Patrick Murphy, who is running for…

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera rails against Washington Republicans in new video

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On the campaign trail, Carlos Lopez-Cantera has been hammering home the difference between himself and the other Republicans in the GOP senate primary race by claiming that he is a Florida Republican, not from Washington D.C. CLC makes that same point again in a new video that his campaign is pushing out on social media Monday. “And it’s time as Republicans we look in the mirror, and face the hard facts,” Lopez-Cantera says from a speech given at the Sunshine…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.19.15 — HCC’s president under fire

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Two stories locally and statewide I’d like to draw your attention to this morning. The Tampa Tribune’s Anastasia Dawson has the goods on a story that has been floating around for a few weeks — how the majority of the faculty at Hillsborough Community College want to oust school President Ken Atwater. “A recent survey issued to nearly all full-time faculty at HCC garnered a slew of complaints against the president: He consistently misses meetings and campus events. He rarely interacts with faculty…

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Ron DeSantis talks tough on terrorism in Orlando speech

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If the race for the Republican nomination for Senate in Florida next year comes down to who’s the toughest on Islamic terrorism, it could come down to a Todd Wilcox vs. Ron DeSantis contest. Both have extensive and impressive military backgrounds, but DeSantis actually has been elected — twice now, as a Congressman representing the 6th District in East Central Florida. A member of the very conservative House Freedom Caucus, DeSantis began his speech at the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit…

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