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Todd Wilcox brings ground-level view of foreign affairs to U.S. Senate race

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If companies want to know who to trust to do business in civil-war-torn Ukraine, they might contact Maitland-based Strategic Risk Management LLC. for privately-researched background intelligence reports. Companies that need to move goods through the dicier parts of Afghanistan might call on Winter Park-based Innovative Logistics LLC to handle the planes, warehouses, trucks and security. And if the U.S. Department of Defense, or a trusted American ally, wants special operations training and support services to prepare missions in some other unstable backwater nation, they might turn…

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Republicans cut ‘Lifestyles of Rich and Famous’ parody of Patrick Murphy

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U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy may have the full support of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, but it looks like his opponent, fellow Congressman Alan Grayson, is getting the full backing of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the upcoming Democratic primary. That GOP committee is releasing a blistering video Wednesday called “The Privileged Life of Patrick Murphy,” parodying the old Robin Leach “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” reports of the 1980s, and depicting Murphy as rich, pampered, and saved and supported by…

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Marco Rubio may be ready to endorse in U.S. Senate race, defends his own pace

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Florida’s outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio suggested Monday he may be ready to endorse the Republican he wants to follow him into the office. “I’ll have something to say about that in the next couple of days,” Rubio said Monday after meeting in Orlando with Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs to discuss Central Florida’s heroin crisis. Rubio also insisted his recent flurry of activity on Florida issues is not a change in his activity level, but a change in media coverage…

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Augustus Sol Invictus says his U.S. Senate campaign hounded by anti-fascists threatening violence, FBI

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Augustus Sol Invictus says he is on the run. Florida’s wannabe Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate claims he is being pursued by anti-fascist groups targeting him for violence, while the FBI is also after him for possible prosecution. Invictus is the uncertified candidate of the Libertarian Party of Florida from Orlando whose rhetoric and symbolism have critics calling him a neo-fascist. His bizarre confessed behaviors, including sacrificing a goat and drinking its blood, and frequent LSD use, have others dismissing him as a political…

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Florida’s U.S. Senate ‘open debate’ brings out policy, mostly on progressive agenda

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Florida’s wannabe U.S. Senate race front-runners Alan Grayson and David Jolly took on Social Security, campaign finance reform, abortion and minimum wage with detailed policy answers in the first-ever “open debate” in Florida Monday night. Grayson, the Democratic congressman from Orlando, and Jolly, the Republican congressman from Seminole set firm but mostly friendly differences between themselves in a debate fueled by and webcast over the internet as what promoters hope will be a new style of forum. In two ways it…

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David Jolly and Alan Grayson to debate in U.S. Senate race Monday

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Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly and Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson will debate for Florida’s U.S. Senate race Monday in a format to be broadcast on the internet. The very existence of the debate, which Grayson and Jolly announced with no details March 1, is controversial because it features just one Republican of five major candidates and just one Democrat of at least two major candidates. And it has them facing off four months before anyone has a chance to become their parties’ nominees in…

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Alan Grayson campaign raises more than $1 million in quarter, including his loan

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson raised more than $1 million in the first quarter of 2016 including a $200,000 loan from the candidate, his campaign announced Monday. Grayson’s campaign said the amount nearly doubled the take it had in the previous quarter, the last three months of 2015. The Orlando Democrat raised more than $700,000 through online contributions alone, and has received more than 81,000 individual contributions, the campaign stated. “This is what real democracy looks like, when…

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