Somebody he'll listen to needs to tell President Obama to stop slamming Donald Trump in all the wrong places.
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On Thursday the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, with a 20-member board including 11 lobbyists, 7 elected officials, and 2 people who work for the PAC, endorsed Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The CBC-PAC is the political arm of the Congressional Black Caucus.
It was conventional wisdom among the political cognoscenti during most of the primary season that Donald Trump could not win the general election. The evidence seemed strong.
As someone who believes that excessive partisanship and Balkanization is poisoning our politics, I have tried to view Hillary Clinton as something other than the ghoul she is portrayed as in conservative circles. No accusation against her is considered too outlandish to gain assent in some precincts of the right: Vince Foster was murdered. Clinton covered up a cocaine smuggling operation in Arkansas. She assassinated Kathleen Willey's cat.
Rick Scott's Degrees to Jobs Summit wowed state college trustees, but I have to tell you, state college trustees certainly wowed me.
The establishment of America, its maintenance, safety, opportunities, and the protection of our citizens is not a product of chance or indifference. Our country comes at a price that blessedly heroes have always paid. For America, Memorial Day is the currency which provides freedom.
Women, lamented Hillary Clinton in an April 2014 tweet, make just 77 cents on the dollar to men. As a presidential candidate she has repeated that lament again and again, updating the numbers, in line with government statistics, to 78 cents in July 2015 and 79 cents this year.
People often ask Gallup, "Are millennials really that different?"
The answer is yes -- profoundly so. Millennials will change the world decisively more than any other generation.
According to reports, Berta Soler, the iconic leader of the Ladies in White, has been arrested and charged with bogus crimes, and stripped of her ability to travel.
University of Missouri at St. Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld has had "second thoughts." Like many academic criminologists, he had pooh-poohed charges that skyrocketing murder rates in many cities in 2015 and 2016 result from a "Ferguson effect" -- a skittering back from proactive policing for fear of accusations of racism like those that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
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By Kevin Derby
Noting theSummit of the Americas in Panama has been marred by pro-democracy protesters being attacked by supporters of the Castro regime, Gov. Rick Scott urged President Barack Obama to keep Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., went to bat for U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Thursday, sending an email to supporters about his Senate allys new book.
Im writing to you about an eye-opening new book by my friend and fellow conservative, Sen. Mike Lee, Rubio wrote. Its called 'Our Lost Constitution and it tells the dramatic behind-the-scenes stories of the heroes who inspired and wrote our Constitution, as well as the villains of history who have defied and ignored so many parts of it.
By Kevin Derby
College students from Florida will now be able to attend the College of Coastal Georgia and receive in-state tuition for the next three academic years as long as they remain continously enrolled. The main campus is in Brunswick.
By Kevin Derby
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) continues to showcase former Miami-Dade Democratic Chairwoman Annette Taddeos far-from-stellar start to her campaign against U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.
On Thursday, the NRCC launched a website full of GIFs, highlighting Taddeos past electoral defeats, living outside the district, canceling a radio appearance due to being tired and claiming to be middle class despite a $1.25 million home and being worth $5.7 million.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is expected to launch a bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday at an event in Miami and, on Thursday, he set up a super-PAC to help his White House ambitions.
By Kevin Derby
Calling it the most important issue I have ever worked on in 30 years of advocacy, John Stemberger, the president of Florida Family Action, rallied social and religious conservatives against a proposal to allow same-sex couples to adopt children in Florida. The Senate is expected to vote on the issue later on Wednesday.
By Kevin Derby
Even as the two chambers of the Florida Legislature struggle to reconcile their budget differences--which are more than $4 billion--Florida TaxWatch released a report on Wednesday looking at some of the tax cut proposals in play. Florida TaxWatch continued to support Gov. Rick Scotts cuts to cell phone and TV service taxes and urged the House to support killing the manufacturing sales tax.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republicans on foreign affairs, slammed the Obama administration on Tuesday after national reports that it was going to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list.
By Kevin Derby
As expected, on Tuesday, Republican candidates Paul Renner and Cyndi Stevenson easily won open Florida House seats in special elections mandated by former Rep. Travis Hutson and former Rep. Doc Renuart running for an open Florida Senate seat. The two new House members will take their new seats starting on Wednesday, keeping them for the GOP majority.
Im proud to welcome Representatives Renner and Stevenson to the Florida House, said House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island. I look forward to the addition of their voices to our already strong Republican majority.
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The Sunshine State is the seventh largest exporter of state-origin products, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Florida-origin exports totaled nearly $59 billion and supported close to 275,000 U.S. jobs in 2013.
The state's international business and foreign direct investment account for approximately 17 percent of Florida's economic activity and directly support more than 1 million jobs in the Sunshine State.
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