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Ben Carson supporters meet in Tampa to spread the word about his candidacy

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This past Saturday afternoon, twoĀ dozen supporters of Dr. Ben CarsonĀ gatheredĀ at the Quality Inn and Suites in East Tampa to hear how they can help get the recently declared Republican presidential candidate elected president — or at least much better known in Hillsborough County. And while the retired neurosurgeon may not be as well known or considered by elites to be in the top tier of GOP presidential candidates for 2016, there is no doubt that those who know his story…

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Engage Cuba kicks off drive to end U.S. sanctions

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Last night in Miami, Alan Gross, theĀ American citizen who was detained in Cuba by the Castro-led government for five years before his release last December, spoke at the inaugural fundraiser for New Cuba PAC, a political action committee created to push for the end of the U.S.Ā 53-year economic embargo against the Communist island. “It was a magical night,” says James Williams withĀ Engage Cuba,Ā a new nonprofit advocacy group created in tandem with the new PAC. “It really felt in many ways…

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Jeb Bush sends out Happy Cinco de Mayo message en EspaƱol

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Don’t tell Laura Ingraham, Steve King, or some other Republican immigration hardliners, butĀ Jeb Bush is commemorating Cinco de Mayo. Bush recorded a video message Tuesday to the entire U.S. Hispanic community, “and especially to our fellow Americans of Mexican origin,” as he says in the video. “Cinco de Mayo is an honorable date when Mexico, our neighbor, bravely defended itself against a foreign intervention,” he says. Although that event is confused in this country as somehow being Mexican Independence Day…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.5.15 –Hillary Clinton takes on the Jeb & the GOP on immigration

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Hillary Clinton is in Las Vegas today, where she will reportedly call for a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., reviving the 2013 legislation that was co-sponsored by Marco Rubio in the Senate — before he walked away from it. She will say that the standard for a true solution is nothing less than “a full and equal path to citizenship,ā€ a Clinton aide tells The Wall Street Journal. ā€œShe will say that…

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For first time since 2012 majority of Americans support Affordable Care Act, says Kaiser poll

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According to a new poll released by theĀ Kaiser Family Foundation,Ā more Americans like President Barack Obama‘s signature healthcare legislation than dislike it. By a narrow margin — 43 percent in favor versus 42 against, with the margin undecided or unsure — a plurality of U.S. citizens say they view the law favorably for the first time in three years, when Obama’s own favorability was cresting. The poll’s findings had a distinctively partisan tinge. Among respondents saying they were in favor of…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.6.15 — Play ball (a little quicker, please)

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It was a big Easter weekend full of news. The top local story is penned by Caitlin Johnston in the Tampa Bay Times regarding the treatment and working conditions at the Tampa Fire Department. Sort of embarrassing that a majority of the city’s fire stations still lack designated women’s bathrooms and private changing areas. Rolling Stone magazine’s editors are being lambasted in some quarters on the Internet this morning for their response to that independent review on that University of…

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Obama’s proposed budget would bar tax-exempt bonds to finance stadiums

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Florida lawmakers last year approved a plan to set aside $7 million in sales-tax dollars to help pay for building or renovating sports stadiums. But last month the Joint Legislative Budget Commission punted on the decision on whether or not to fund the four stadium projects that were before them —Ā EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Daytona International Speedway, Sun Life Stadium in Miami-Dade County and an Orlando soccer stadium. The issue of whether to give tax breaks to millionaires for such…

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