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Mitch Perry Report for 4.29.15 — Hillary Clinton (finally) gets a challenger

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We finally have a challenger to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nomination contest. Seventy-three-year-old Vermont independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders officially announces his candidacy today, though he says he won’t give a big speech noting the event until May 26. “I’ve been traveling around the country for the last year trying to ascertain whether there really is grass-roots support in terms of people standing up and being prepared to take on the billionaire class,” Sanders tells USA Today. “I believe…

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GOP ‘Freedom to Marry’ group forms for SCOTUS same-sex hearing

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Attempting to build up positive momentum in the lead-up to next week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage, a new group has been formed to show the growing bipartisan backing for gay marriage in the Sunshine State. It’s called, “Florida Republicans for the Freedom to Marry,” a joint effort between Equality Florida and Freedom to Marry, a national organization based in Washington. “Government needs to stop telling its citizens how to live their private lives. There is no reason…

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Florida Senate panel postpones vote on gay adoption ban

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In Tallahassee this afternoon, a Senate committee postponed a vote on a controversial bill that would allow private adoption agencies in Florida to be able to turn away same-sex couples based on religious and moral beliefs. The fate of the legislation is now in question. Chairman David Simmons said he would confer with Senate President Andy Gardiner on what to do next with the measure, which passed the entire House of Representatives earlier this month. The Conscience Protection for Actions of Private…

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Transformers 3 details revealed

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Director Michael Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura recently did an interview with USA Today in which they explain what went wrong with Transformers: Revenger of the Fallen, and in the process revealed a few little nuggets of information regarding Transformers 3. Here are some of the major points from the article. They are hoping give the next film a major upgrade. Apparently they have a more coherent story, less goofball humor and the characters that die, will stay dead. The villain in Transformers…

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5 things I think about today’s paper

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I just added home delivery of The New York Times, so it takes me about two days to get through both newspapers, which means I am still catching up on yesterday’s mammoth Sunday edition of the NYT. But here’s what I think of today’s paper (shorter version because of DMB week). 1. Few newspapers use color as well as the St. Petersburg Times. I always read the USA Today on Mondays to get a complete read on the sports world,…

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USA Today: Bill Young’s addition to war spending bill raises questions

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The House Appropriations Committee has added $20 million to the supplemental war spending bill to bail out a privately built brain injury treatment center for U.S. troops after the facility’s supporters gave almost $100,000 in campaign contributions to the panel’s senior Republican, according to federal records and interviews. Backers of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence said they would use only private donations to build a $60 million facility to treat and rehabilitate troops at the National Naval Medical Center…

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USA Today: Charlie Crist Brightens GOP’s Senate Outlook

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From Susan Davis, USA Today: Charlie Crist’s entry in the Florida Senate race for 2010 gives Republicans a strong player on a field that again will be tilted in favor of the Democrats. After picking up six seats in 2006 and nine last year, Democrats have no coming retirements and hold only two seats in 2010 races that election analysts currently consider competitive. Republicans hold four seats in races that figure to be close. Counting the two independents who tend…

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