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Jeb Bush has made $29 million since leaving the Florida Governor’s Mansion

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He may not be as rich as Carly Florina or Hillary Clinton, but Jeb Bush has done quite well for himself since leaving government nine years ago. And before then as well. The former Florida Governor posted the past 33 years of tax returns on his website on Tuesday afternoon, a total of 1,150 pages. It’s considered to be the highest number of tax returns ever presented to the American public, more than the 30 years of returns that Bob Dole presented 20 years…

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Bobby Jindal’s jab at Jeb Bush not first to mock his comment on ‘losing the primary to win the general’

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On the first day of December of last year, Jeb Bush made a comment at The Wall Street CEO Council meeting that reverberates more than half a year later. Arguing for a more centrist GOP, Bush said a nominee should “lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles.” It was a bold statement, indicating that the former Florida governor wouldn’t be pandering to the base to win the nomination. The comment has angered some Republicans, who thought it a…

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Support for Jeb Bush grows in new WSJ/NBC News poll

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Potential support for Jeb Bush has edged upward in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Sunday, with the share of Republican primary voters who said they were open to his candidacy rising to 75 percent in June from 70 percent in April and just 49 percent in March. Preliminary numbers from the survey, which will be released in full on Monday night, also show that Marco Rubio has the highest margin of support among Republicans, with 74 percent who could see themselves…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.18.15 — Rand Paul becomes the latest pol to promise to “blow up the tax code”

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Rand Paul today is unveiling his “Fair and Flat Tax,” where he aims to repeal the entire IRS tax code and replace it with a broad-based 14.5 percent tax on individuals and businesses. He says he would eliminate “nearly” every special-interest loophole, while also eliminating the payroll tax on workers and several federal taxes outright, including gift and estate taxes, telephone taxes, and all duties and tariffs. Headline, Scroll, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Mike Merrill, United for Care, Right to…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.4.15 — Hillary Clinton to rally the base on voting issues

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Good morning, everybody. Props to the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald for their world exclusive giving us the date when Jeb Bush finally ends his “exploring the waters” phase and officially enters the GOP presidential race — Monday, June 15. Meanwhile, Lincoln Chafee announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination yesterday and Rick Perry will later today, if you’re scoring at home. Meanwhile, for those critics who say Hillary Clinton is doing a whole bunch of nothing in these early months (and by…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.3.15 — Could rising crime become a political issue in 2015?

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At Rick Scott’s cattle call in Orlando yesterday (I refuse to call it the Happiest Place on the Earth), the six (potential) presidential candidates were told by the governor to stick to the economy, so the only time they could speak about other issues was generally if they came before reporters after their session on stage. But as news from the Tampa Police Department continued to trickle in on 14-year-old Edward Harris’ death on Sunday, I began to contemplate the…

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HART board members once again talk about funding sources

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As officials with the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) laid out their preliminary budget and Transit Development Plan (TDP) on Monday, a couple of board members (once again) expressed frustration with the agency’s lack of access to key lawmakers who could help them obtain more funding from either Tallahassee or Washington, D.C. The recommended FY 2016 budget includes operating expenditures of over $69 million and capital expenditures of just over $12 million. The plan calls for a a 2.1 percent increase in…

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