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Pat Kemp leading big in early count of Hillsborough County District 6 seat

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Democrat Pat Kemp looks poised to take the Hillsborough County Commission District 6 race against Republican Tim Schock.

With 53 of the 340 precincts reporting, Kemp has edged out to a 14-percentage point lead, 57%-43%.

This is Kemp’s second attempt to win a countywide seat in the past two years. In 2014, she narrowly lost to Republican Al Higginbotham in the District 7 race.

Shock also lost to Higginbotham in 2014 in his first run for office in the GOP District 7 primary.

Kemp is an attorney and environmentalist, and if elected, will succeed the term-limited out Kevin Beckner, one of only two Democrats on the seven member board.

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Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served as five years as the political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. He also was the assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley. He's a San Francisco native who has now lived in Tampa for 15 years and can be reached at [email protected].

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