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Times editorial on Ticketgate

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St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Jamie Bennett is pitifully ignorant or disappointingly complicit when it comes to a series of campaign mistakes and second-rate dirty tricks. He has fired the campaign manager he never should have hired, but if he stays in the race that will not end the questions or remove the stains. Sorting out who knew what when between Bennett and his former campaign manager, Peter Schorsch, may be an exercise in futility. But some of their maneuvers cannot…

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Publish campaign finance information online

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With Scott Wagman’s pronouncement that he plans to raise at least a half-a-million dollars for his campaign, there is an increasing concern about the impact of money in this year’s municipal elections. With the mayor’s office and five seats on the city council up for election, there could be at least a million dollars in campaign contributions made to all of the candidates running. That is a staggering amount of money, especially in this economic climate, and it needs to…

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A tidbit: Nancy Watkins is Deveron Gibbons’ treasurer

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I was reviewing some of the paperwork that’s been filed at the City Clerk’s office and one tidbit stands out, not that it’s a big deal or that it should come as surprise, but on Deveron Gibbons’ paperwork he lists Nancy Watkins as his campaign treasurer. To me this is another sign of strength for his campaign because Watkins is the authority in Tampa Bay when it comes to campaign finance matters.

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