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Pat Kemp says she’s the best Democrat in the Hillsborough County Commission District 6 seat

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On Monday, Pat Kemp made official what she has told anyone who asked since last November’s election– she is running again for a Hillsborough County Commission seat in 2016, this time in the District 6 countywide seat being vacated by Kevin Beckner, whose term ends next year. Florida Politics originally reported she would run back in late February, but Kemp didn’t officially file until Monday. The difference since then is that it’s no longer theoretical that she’ll have a challenger…

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Transit activist Brian Willis files to run for Hillsborough County Commission

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Tampa-based attorney Brian Willis has made it official — he’s now running for the Democratic nomination for Hillsborough County commissioner in the countywide District 6 seat being vacated by a term limited Kevin Beckner in 2016. “I have always been dedicated to making Hillsborough a better place to live, ” Willis said in a statement early Monday afternoon. “Turning talk into action on transportation will be a key part of my campaign, but transportation is just one piece of the…

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Hillsborough County now using elections officials to safeguard public comments on transit effort

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Score one for Sharon Calvert and the critics of Hillsborough County’s public information campaign that could lead to a transit tax referendum on the ballot a year from this November. In what is being described as an unprecedented move, the county is using members of the Supervisor of Elections (SOE) office to safeguard the written comments made by the public at one of the numerous public meetings being held over the next few months. What’s at stake is the possibility…

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Pat Kemp says she’s definitely running for Hillsborough County Commission in 2016

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Despite a late start and the fact that she was outspent by approximately $70,000, Pat Kemp nearly defeated Al Higginbotham in the race for the countywide Hillsborough County District 7 seat last November. That’s why she says she’s definitely running again in 2016, this time for the Democratic nomination for the countywide District 6 seat that will go before the voters in November of 2016. It’s a race that could be crowded with other Democrats as well, as both DNC Vice…

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