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Jamie Bennett’s newest consultant reaches deal in election fraud investigation

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According to the North Country Gazette, Miami political consultant Derek Newton, recently hired by Jamie Bennett to run his mayoral campaign, has reached a tenative plea deal in a three-year long election fraud investigation involving the 2006 campaign for State Representative District 108 when authorities say he tried to sabotage a candidate running against his client. According to the report: “Detective Joseph Curl of the Public Corruption Unit of the Miami-Dade Police Department confirmed Wednesday that the case in which…

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Nina Hayden just shot herself in the foot

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I guess if she is crazy enough to give up her seat on the Pinellas School Board to run against Jack Latvala, it should come as no surprise then that Nina Hayden is endorsing Steve Kornell for St. Petersburg City Council. The only problem with this endorsement is that Kornell is running against Angela Rouson, wife of Darryl Rouson, the rockstar of the Pinellas legislative delegation. So basically, Hayden just made an enemy out of one of the guys who…

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Draft Ken Welch

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The latest poll on the St. Petersburg Mayoral race supposedly indicates that voters are undecided about their choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have access to a second poll, whose questions are more direct than The Times’. The crosstabs of this poll indicate that voters are not completely undecided, they are just undecided about which one of two candidates they would like to support. Bennett supporters are also Wagman supporters and vice-versa. Ford supporters are also Foster…

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10 things I think I think about the latest poll of the St. Petersburg Mayor’s Race

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St. Petersburg voters still have no clue about who the next mayor should be, a new St. Petersburg Times poll shows. 61% undecided. Kathleen Ford, um, leads with 10%. After Ford, Bill Foster and Deveron Gibbons each received 8 percent, followed by Larry Williams and Scott Wagman with 4 percent each. City Council member Jamie Bennett received 3 percent of the vote. Newcomer Richard Eldridge received 1 percent. Here are ten things I think I think about this poll. 1.…

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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

Can Jamie Bennett make a comeback?

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There are two interpretations of this photo of Jamie Bennett posted on his revamped, albeit underwhelming Facebook profile (please Jamie, update your Twitter account — it’s been 44 days.) On one hand, the picture shows the Jamie we all know and love; BBQ Jamie, happily grilling sausages at a too low-key event for his remaining volunteers. On the other hand, there is a man with more gray hair than he had six months ago, a loss of hair color for…

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Which campaign website is scarier…Richard Eldridge’s or Joe Smith’s?

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I don’t want to make fun of either man; Richard Eldridge is the comic relief the mayoral race needed and Joe Smith is honorable man who probably deserves better than to run for public office. That said, both candidate’s websites are horrifying. The problem is, I can’t figure out which one is worse. You decide. or

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