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		<title>Darden Rice backing Gina Driscoll for St. Pete City Council</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Darden Rice has become the third member of the St. Petersburg City Council to endorse Gina Driscoll in the race for the District 6 seat. Joining Karl Nurse and Charlie Gerdes in backing their fellow Democrat, Rice says that Driscoll is a proven leader and consensus builder. “District 6 needs an open-hearted and open-minded leader who listens, and Gina is genuinely committed to making St. Pete an even more inclusive and welcoming place for everyone,&#8221; says Rice in a statement. &#8220;She is&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charlie Gerdes backs Gina Driscoll for St. Pete City Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[District 6 candidate Gina Driscoll announced an endorsement Tuesday from one of her would-be colleagues on the St. Petersburg City Council. Councilman Charlie Gerdes said in a prepared statement that he was “proud” to support Driscoll, who is running against Justin Bean in the runoff election to replace termed-out council member Karl Nurse. &#8220;Gina knows how to bring people and neighborhoods together, and District 6 needs a representative with that kind of experience,” Gerdes said. “I am confident that she&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Kriseman shifts to offense as St. Pete mayoral race heads to run-off</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever since Rick Baker entered the mayoral race in St. Petersburg in May, incumbent Rick Kriseman has been on the defensive &#8211; about sewage, the Manhattan Casino, the Pier, and seemingly everything else under the sunshine. Those issues will undoubtedly reverberate as the mayoral race continues into the fall, but Kriseman was completely on offense when he took to the state at the State Theater Tuesday night when a runoff was guaranteed (but before he knew he had collected 69&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charlie Gerdes surprised by &#8216;unfactual&#8217; rhetoric in St. Pete campaigns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk in this year&#8217;s mayoral and City Council races about how St. Petersburg is not doing enough to create affordable housing. Charlie Gerdes thinks that&#8217;s bunk. The Councilman who represents St. Pete&#8217;s west side of town has been listening to what a few of the candidates have said on the campaign trail; Gerdes was frankly surprised about how &#8220;unfactual&#8221; some of these discussions have been. On Thursday, the City Council approved a proposal to fund $1.8 million&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More endorsements come rolling in for Darden Rice&#8217;s re-election</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/endorsements-come-rolling-darden-rices-re-election/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Ammann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Petersburg City Council Chair Darden Rice is announcing an extended list of new endorsements Thursday for her District 4 re-election bid. As a popular first-term Council member and longtime civic activist, Rice enjoys a wellspring of support from elected officials, colleagues and well-wishers on both the local and state levels. The growing list of endorsements includes several prominent local elected officials: State Sen. Darryl Rouson, State Reps. Ben Diamond and Wengay Newton, as well as St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St. Pete Council moves to keep big money out of city campaigns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Promise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awake Pinellas!]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Petersburg&#8217;s City Council took a step toward enacting far-reaching campaign finance reform, which could go well beyond what any other U.S. city has done before. On a 4-3 vote, council members supported a proposal that would require corporations that spend more than $5,000 in city elections to certify they are not entirely or partly owned by foreign interests above certain thresholds. The measure also would put a $5,000 limit on individual contributions to Super PACs that spend money on city&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At campaign appearance, Rick Kriseman says the election is all about moving St. Pete forward</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/campaign-appearance-rick-kriseman-says-mayoral-election-moving-forwards-not-backwards/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 01:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[To a cheering crowd of supporters Friday night, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman expressed what will be undoubtedly the predominant theme of his re-election campaign this summer. Kriseman said the election between himself and former Mayor Rick Baker is a simple choice: whether citizens want to keep moving forward or go back in time. &#8220;It&#8217;s about us deciding as a community who we want to be,&#8221; the mayor told more than a hundred people who crammed into a house on North Dr. Martin Luther King&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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