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GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, campaigning in Sarasota (Pic by Cooper Levey-Baker)

Bachmann concludes weekend swing with Sarasota rally

By | 08.28.11 | 6:46 pm

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann concluded a weekend of Florida events with a Sarasota rally cosponsored by the local Republican Party and a handful of tea party and 912 groups, repeating her calls to eliminate both the EPA and the Department of Education and promising to lead the charge to repeal “ObamaCare.”

State Rep. Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Geddings)

Republican bill that guts local anti-wage theft ordinances passes House committee

By | 04.15.11 | 9:38 am

The Republican majority on the state House Judiciary committee voted Thursday to support House Bill 241, which would render useless local wage theft ordinances that help workers who have been stiffed of their earned wages by dishonest employers.

Sarasota GOP chairman credits extremist blogger with helping ‘shift the whole area right’

By | 11.08.10 | 10:39 am

The chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota County — where the party swept every election last Tuesday — is crediting a controversial local blogger with a history of extremist statements with helping “shift the whole area right,” in…

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