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Financier Hank Greenberg gives pro-Jeb Bush super PAC $10 million boost

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Facing single-digit polling numbers and a lack of momentum compared to other establishment rivals, Jeb Bush is succeeding on one front, by way of a major figure from the financial sector. As reported Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, former AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg has given $10 million to the pro-Bush super PAC “Right to Rise Super USA.” In an interview with the WSJ, Greenberg would not elaborate, but did not deny making the contribution. But despite Right to…

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WSJ political reporter Carol Lee’s upcoming appearance at Eckerd College has been cancelled

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Wall Street Journal reporter Carol E. Lee, one of the top political journalists in Washington who covers the White House, has canceled her upcoming appearance at Eckerd College scheduled for November 9. Lee, who currently serves as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association for the 2015-2016 year, was also scheduled to present the “Eckerd College Journeys in Journalism Prizes” to students from Melrose Elementary, John’s Hopkins Middle School and Lakewood High School before her speech. Eckerd spokesman Tom Sherberger says that Israeli…

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Google Fiber’s superfast Internet service to explore operating in Tampa

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Google Fiber is a high-speed fiber-optic network. Internet speeds on fiber optic cables are up to 100 times greater than the national average – and it looks like that service could be coming to Tampa. Speaking at the University of Tampa on Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Brien Bell, Google’s Regional Expansion Lead, jointly told members of the press that Google Fiber will begin “exploring” the opportunity to expand their Internet and TV service into Tampa. Google prefers using the term “exploring” because…

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Jeb Bush in 5th place with 8% in latest NBC News-WSJ Poll

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Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to dominate in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the GOP presidential race, while Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush continued to lag behind in third and fifth place, respectively. Trump is at 25 percent — four points up from September. Dr. Carson is second with 22 percent, a slight bump from the poll taken a month ago. Rubio is in third place with 13 percent, the only other Republican to get into…

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Mitch Perry Report for 10.5.15 — O’Malley and Clinton unveil plans to address gun violence

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Welcome to the first Monday in October, where in Tampa the temperatures began this morning in the upper 60s… Lots going on in pop culture and sports this past weekend, but let’s stick with hard news and talk about the issue of gun violence in America in the wake of the latest mass shooting in Oregon last week. When it comes to addressing this problem, Republican presidential candidates are responding by throwing up their arms and saying, essentially, “whatever.” “Stuff…

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Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio still in middle of the pack in new Iowa, NH polls

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Florida’s two presidential candidates – Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio- remain in the middle of the pack in two new polls taken in Iowa and New Hampshire and released on Sunday. Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican field in both states, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist surveys. In New Hampshire, Trump now holds a five-point advantage over Carly Fiorina among GOP primary voters, 21 percent to 16 percent – followed by Bush in third place with  percent, and Marco…

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Jeb Bush releases ad pushing his tax-cut plan

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Jeb Bush unveiled his tax plan last week at a poultry-cooling equipment facility in North Carolina, and his campaign team has edited footage from that event into a new ad they released on Sunday. The plan would reduce the number of tax brackets that Americans pay into from seven to three, reducing the lowest amount that anyone would pay to 28 percent, which was the highest level when Ronald Reagan left office in 1988. Middle-class tax rates would fall to…

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