Beltway Democrats continue to climb on former Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo’s bandwagon but Republicans continue to note that she isn’t from the South Florida district where she is running for Congress.
Former Republican Party of Florida Chairwoman Leslie Dougher is looking to return to Tallahassee, this time as a member of the Florida House of Representatives.
In the aftermath of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision making same-sex marriage the law of the land and with the 2016 elections looming, social conservatives will be headed to Orlando in July to plan their next steps.
On Tuesday, prominent social and religious conservative leader John Stemberger announced the “Florida Renewal Project Pastors Conference” and a campaign training session will be held in Orlando on July 9-10.
This year marks the 152nd anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, the pivotal conflict in the Civil War which was fought from July 1 through July 3, 1863. Dramatized in Michael Shaaras Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Killer Angels" and the Ron Maxwell film "Gettysburg" based on that book, the battle continues to resound in American culture.
The latest deadline on the Western powers and Iran’s negotiations over that Middle Eastern nation’s nuclear program came on Tuesday and the talks in Vienna are expected to extend into July. In the meantime, members of the Florida congressional delegation continue to offer warnings about the threat Iran poses.
From her perch as chairwoman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., insisted Iran was stalling for time and trying to get more concessions.
The Republican leadership is after U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., but the North Florida congressman is trying to use that opposition to rally conservatives in his district.
Yoho made national headlines earlier this year when he challenged U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to lead the House. While Yoho did not garner much support, other challengers to Boehner -- namely U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla. .-- received more votes but the speaker retained the gavel.
A Florida Democrat who is running for the U.S. Senate announced on Monday that he is backing a bill from a Republican presidential hopeful.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., who is running for the Senate in 2016, said on Monday that he is backing the Police Creating Accountability by Making Effective Recording Available (Police CAMERA) Act.
“Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die,” wrote the celebrated historian Richard Hofstadter. That might be true in elections -- Ross Perot certainly did not have the same success during his second presidential campaign -- but it’s not right when it comes to issues.
With the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) scrambling to boost its security after a data breach compromised 4.2 million Americans’ personal information, a key congressman from Florida said he will consider increasing its funds for cybersecurity. Federal authorities insist the breach came from China.
On Friday, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, said he was open to increasing funding for additional security measures. Crenshaw’s subcommittee oversees the OPM’s budget.
In a swing district in South Florida, a freshman congressman and his Democratic challenger expressed support on Friday for the Supreme Court’s decision making same-sex marriage the law of the land.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., will be a top Democratic target in 2016 and the freshman congressman was one of a handful of congressional Republicans to applaud the decision. Along with U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who has been a key ally to his 2014 and 2016 efforts, Curbelo was one of the rare Florida Republicans who backed the ruling.
