On Friday, Nov. 2, more than 50 protesters rallied in the northwest Orlando parking lot of Florida Outdoor Equipment, a wholesale distributor of outdoor power equipment in Florida, Georgia and part of Tennessee. The group was made up of members of Organize Now and the Community Business Association of Central Florida (organizations behind the...
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Back home from Washington on a break, Congressman Daniel Webster held his second “Stop the Spigot of Spending” town hall meeting this afternoon at the Orange County Education Extension Center in south Orlando. The presentation–held in an auditorium filled to capacity, with people standing in the aisles–was essentially a sales pitch for House Budget...
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This week, Gawker posted its picks for 2010′s craziest political ads (so far), and we weren’t surprised to see that ads for Florida politicians appeared on the list four times. We were surprised, though, to see that Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson’s controversial “Taliban Dan” ad didn’t make the cut! The ad, which portrays the...
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