By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press Feeling confident that the Central Florida tea party movement was some 250 miles away in Tallahassee, the Progressive Left actually felt safe enough to amass in the streets of Orlando yesterday in noticeable numbers. Even Alan Grayson found the courage to crawl out from the rock he’s been hiding under since getting his rear-end handed to him in the November | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press In what surely has to be a most fitting metaphor, the tea party movement in Wisconsin will show up in force today at the state Capitol in Madison to ‘clean up’ after the unions and far left agitators who took that facility hostage a couple of weeks back. As it is, the tea party has been ‘cleaning up’ after | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press In response to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s announcement yesterday that he is rejecting federal money for high speed rail, a very peculiar thing happened. Both Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and Republican John Mica, Chairman of the Transportation Committee made almost identical comments in statements to the media. Is Mica, who called Gov. Scott’s decision a “huge setback for the | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press Republican Congressman John Mica (FL7) held a ‘meet and greet’ this past weekend in his district office in Maitland that was attended by a half dozen local tea party leaders, including myself. Somewhat surprisingly, the event was held in the lobby of the building, which equated to a long hallway with small openings at each end. The turnout was | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press More proof that if you hang around long enough, you’ll see just about everything! Anyone who knows me knows that I am far from being an apologist for the Republican Party, but what a pickle they find themselves in. And, as is usually the case, they can look amongst themselves for much of the blame. There’s much ado being | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press In a report on Media-ite, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews goes off the deep end once again in an attack on the tea party, asking a republican strategist this; So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party, they’re the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you’ve stayed too long? Whether you’ve got a “Sell | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Florida Political Press And the high speed rail ‘waltz’ continues here in Florida, or shall we call it the high speed ‘hustle’? Gov. Rick Scott emerged from a meeting Friday with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expressing the same caution he has exercised before on high speed rail. “He’s a believer,” Scott told the Buzz. “I’m the one that’s responsible to the | Read More »
By Tom Tillison Orlando Political Press The tea party movement is fast approaching it’s two year anniversary. As many of you will recall, it was on February 19, 2009 that Rick Santelli stood on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and made his now famous rant. Of course, any self respecting Ron Paul-ite will quickly tell you the movement pre-dates the ‘rant heard ’round | Read More »
By: George Noga John Mica, beginning his 10th term in Congress, represents Florida’s 7th congressional district which snakes from Winter Park to the Jacksonville city limits. The crazy quilt nature of his district likely discourages serious challengers with a political base only in one part of the district. That may change when Florida redistricts prior to the 2012 election. A stiff challenge to Mica in | Read More »
By Tom Tillison OrlandoPoliticalPress.com With emotions running high over the tragedy in Arizona and all the discussion of how this event is being played out in the media, I thought it would be interesting to see what our friends on the other side of the isle have to say about it. The prevailing theme in the liberal media is that the heightened rhetoric in the | Read More »
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