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City Council candidates at Tiger Bay today

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The two races for St. Petersburg City Council District 5 and 6 seats each share common elements. They both contain economically and racially diverse areas of the City with some of the most valuable, and most economically troubled real estate. They also feature open, or nearly open, seats as opposed to other districts where the incumbents are fairly securely entrenched. But the most interesting element each shares is the field of candidates. Each has a presumed front-runner. In District 5…

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Two-thirds of Deveron Gibbons’ contributions come from outside of St. Pete

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According to the latest campaign treasurer’s reports, more than 62% of Deveron Gibbons cash contributions last quarter came from donors outside of St. Petersburg. Gibbons raised $41,030 in cash contributions with $25,504 coming from donors who don’t even live in St. Petersburg. Overall, Gibbons has raised $156,655 with more than $100,504 of that coming from donors outside of St. Petersburg.

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Pinellas Realtors explain endorsements

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Is this going to be one of the new trends this election season, in which organizations explain their endorsements? Sierra Club explained why it endorsed Scott Wagman for St. Petersburg Mayor; now the Pinellas Realtors are explaining (albeit with several spelling errors I had to correct) the endorsement they made last week in the City Council races: District 2: James Kennedy – Kennedy earned the committee’s recommendation because of his commitment to growth management planning as well as his overall…

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Scott Wagman pulls a John McCain by playing Van Halen’s ‘Right Now’ in campaign video

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I did not think the voters of St. Petersburg would see a candidate as gauche as Deveron Gibbons, who has the temerity to send out a mail-piece which cribs from Lawton Chiles’ 1990 campaign at the same time it shows a picture of Gibbons next to Charlie Crist, but Scott Wagman’s recent antics almost take the cake for flat-out gumption. Put aside my complaints about his advertising on Google without the proper disclaimer, but you can’t look past him putting…

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10 things I think I think about the latest campaign fundraising reports

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1. I was one of the first to call for the City Clerk to post the Campaign Treasurer reports online, and while I appreciate the initial effort to post PDFs of the reports, the city needs to take the next step and create an accessible online database to see who’s giving what. Political Whore Wayne Garcia echoes this call in his cover story on how to fix Tampa Bay politics: “While we’re at it, how about better, more user-friendly interfaces…

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Creative Loafing’s slurping of Scott Wagman — and its downward spiral in general

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Last week, Political Whore Wayne Garcia and I got into a minor scrape over my accusation of a bias by Creative Loafing for St. Petesburg mayoral candidate Scott Wagman, whose political consultant is the domestic partner of CL editor David Warner. My accusation began as just a gentle nudge; I left this comment at the end of a story about Wagman receiving Sierra Club’s endorsement: “Lots of stories about Wagman from the paper edited by his consultant’s partner.” Garcia unloaded…

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In mail-piece, Jamie Bennett boasts he’s ‘most likely’ to continue in Rick Baker’s footsteps

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It looks like Jamie Bennett shot his wad on a massive direct mail-piece arriving in mailboxes this week. The mail-piece reflects Bennett’s unique political position… …the logical heir to Rick Baker’s governing legacy, which he uses a Times quote to reinforce… …the lifelong liberal, as demonstrated by his charitable work in Haiti and his position on any number of issues… …the cheerleading member of City Council… …the soldier who doesn’t know when the war is over.

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

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