This should not be happening to Rick Kriseman. He should not be on the verge of finishing second, if not losing, today’s mayoral primary in St. Petersburg. This is not how Kriseman envisioned it four years ago after he unseated incumbent Bill Foster, beating him by 12 points.
Mayor Rick Kriseman is pulling out all the stops in the final hours before voters head to the polls Tuesday to determine whether he will get another term as St. Petersburg’s top elected official.
Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that he had appointed one new member and reappointed two others to the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority.
Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. Joe Henderson has today’s topper. Like all of you, I have been mesmerized watching reports about the catastrophe in Texas from Hurricane Harvey. Just couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and couldn’t help thinking what it would be like if a storm like Harvey washed ashore from the mouth of Tampa Bay.
There are not enough flame emojis on my keyboard to adequately denote what follows as a pure hot take, so here goes… If Rick Baker falls a few hundred votes short of winning Tuesday’s mayoral primary in St. Petersburg, will he have President Donald Trump to blame? Baker needs to win fifty-percent-plus-one of the vote to avoid a November run-off election versus incumbent Rick Kriseman. Let’s say for the purpose of this hot take that Baker finishes with 49.5 to…
As discussed ad infinitum, the only drama in tomorrow’s mayoral race is whether Rick Baker wins enough of the vote to avoid a November runoff versus incumbent Rick Kriseman. The most recent survey from St. Pete Polls shows Baker with a seven-point lead and within striking distance of the fifty-percent-plus-one threshold. However, Kriseman’s campaign believes it has the Big Mo after the staunch Democrat was endorsed Friday by former president Barack Obama.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco and state Sen. Lauren Book are joining a national victims’ rights group to ask Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission for an amendment to give equal rights for crime victims. While most states give crime victims constitutional-level protections, Florida remains one of 15 that does not. Marsy’s Law for Florida, the organization working to amend the Florida constitution, on Monday announced it would offer language to the CRC to place on the 2018 ballot. The CRC meets every…
