VOTE HERE FOR SAINT PETERSBLOG FOR BEST LOCAL BLOG. As a candidate for Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay’s Best Local Troublemaker award, I forgot to think about how Tampa-dominated these awards can be. How else can you explain Joe Redner leading in this category. Five, ten years ago, sure. But what did Redner do [...]

Can Meek, Rubio tweet out a Fla. Senate win? Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio was recently frustrated trying to get a cell phone signal on a rural stretch of Interstate 10, so he tweeted it. “If I wasn’t a limited govt conservative I would support a law MANDATING better cell phone coverage on I-10,” Rubio [...]

Florida Republican and U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio spoke to NRO about Gov. Charlie Crist’s pick of attorney George LeMieux to serve the remainder of retiring senator Mel Martinez’s term: George LeMieux is a very successful political operative, as well as a successful and effective lobbyist. Plus, he’s the governor’s best friend, but that’s not [...]

From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats have embarrassed themselves by naming political buddies to replace Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the Senate, and now a Republican is showing he can do the same. On Friday, Florida Governor Charlie Crist picked a long-time aide and political consultant to fill his state’s soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat, [...]

So much for the rule of not ending on a negative… Williams’ TV commercials have been relatively well-produced. Relatively being the operative word. The ads are a little shaky, they zoom in and out quickly, the on-screen text is sloppy, but overall, these spots are more effective than the spots Adam Goodman produced for Deveron [...]

When news of her death at age 86 spread this week, one friend recalled the day Malchon loaded all of her papers, charts and things in the back seat of her car as she headed out to yet another meeting. She threw the car in reverse and charged out of the garage, not realizing she [...]

If your mailbox is like mine, it’s probably stuffed like a Christmas turkey with mail from candidates looking to Get Out the Vote. Here are the GOTV pieces from Scott Wagman and Bill Foster: No way, Equality Florida and the Stonewall Democrats and Linda Lerner…who’d have thunk it? Nice airbrushing of that shiny dome, Wags. [...]

Final fundraising numbers for the primary in the St. Petersburg Mayoral Race: Jamie Bennett reported $1,000 in contributions. For the primary he raised $47,683. About $5OK less than what he would have raised had he still had me around. Scott Wagman raises $3,735.01 and loans his campaign $30,000 (now $170,000 all together). For the primary [...]