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Pinellas Commissioner Neil Brickfield confirms he is endorsing Marco Rubio

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Pinellas County Commissioner and GOP stalwart Neil Brickfield confirms he has endorsed former Speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio for the U.S. Senate. Brickfield’s is the most prominent elected official from Charlie Crist’s home-county to have endorsed Rubio. Speaking by phone with Commissioner Brickfield, he insists he has been a long-time supporter of Speaker Rubio and that his decision did not come in the wake of Rubio’s impressive speech last night to the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee.

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Tampa heavy-hitters raise money for Jack Latvala

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Take a look at the list of heavy-hitters who helped raise money for Jack Latvala’s campaign for the Florida Senate. Meanwhile, Mitch Perry reports that Nina Hayden wowed the Hillsborough Young Dems meeting.

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Video: Marco Rubio addresses Pinellas GOP

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Video (like I like martinis, just every so shaken) of U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio making an impassioned plea to the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee in the lead-up to the PCREC’s straw ballot vote in January:

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Senate candidate Jack Latvala to help lead grassroots opposition to offshore oil drilling

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A Panhandle restaurateur is asking thousands of Floridians to hit the beaches to fight offshore oil-drilling along the state’s Gulf coast. Dave Rauschkolb, owner of Bud and Alley’s and two other beachside restaurants in the town of Seaside, has launched an effort dubbed Hands Across the Sand, which is emerging as the first grassroots opposition to the oil-drilling effort led by Florida Energy Associates, a group of independent oil producers. Rauschkolb’s goal is to get Floridians to hold hands and…

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Pinellas County Housing Authority declares legal war on St. Pete Housing Authority, requesting SA & AG to investigate violations of public records law

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The Pinellas County Housing Authority is asking the State Attorney’s office and the Attorney General to investigate the St. Petersburg Housing Authority over the SPHA’s failure to comply with a public records request. That may sound like just another bureaucratic turf war, but when one agency asks law enforcement to investigate another agency, especially in light of the acrimonious nature of the relationship between the two housing authorities, this legal action is nothing short of declaring war. Below and after…

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Marco Rubio comes to Pinellas to deliver the most important speech of the campaign, asking PCREC to ‘divorce’ Charlie Crist

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I cannot describe the sheer sense of panic that is pervading throughout Charlie Crist’s supporters here in his hometown of St. Petersburg. At Crist’s beloved Yacht Club or at the bar at Marchand’s in the Vinoy, there are hundreds of Crist’s supporters who cannot begin to conceive of Crist losing an election (as if they forget that the seer-suckered one has already lost twice in his political career). To his supporters in the ‘burg, Charlie Crist is Tom Brady on…

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If you care about Williams Park — and downtown St. Pete — you need to attend Tuesday’s PSTA mtg.

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PSTA is partnering with the Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the City of St. Petersburg to develop a long-range plan to make public transit in St. Petersburg even more convenient. The city will hold a public meeting to tell you about proposed sites for a new, modern, efficient, intermodal transit transfer center which would replace the current Williams Park location. Comments from the public are welcome. As Marilyn Olsen, president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association writes, “One of…

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