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Rick Kriseman tells Charlotte Observer that St. Pete is “welcoming, inclusive and open for business”

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The good-natured rivalry between Tampa Bay area Mayors Bob Buckhorn and Rick Kriseman now transcends Major League Baseball, with both of them pitching their cities to businesses looking to relocate because of ordinances perceived to be discriminatory to the LGBT community. The St. Petersburg mayor wrote an op-ed that appeared on The Charlotte Observer‘s website on Wednesday, where he writes that “there has never been a better time for Florida, and especially St. Petersburg, to send the message that we are…

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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

Bob Buckhorn pitches PayPal on relocating to Tampa from North Carolina

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Can North Carolina’s controversial religious freedom law that critics say discriminates against the LGBT community redound to Tampa’s advantage? That’s what Bob Buckhorn hopes for, after PayPal announced on Tuesday that it was their canceling plans for a new operation center that would have employed over 400 people in Charlotte, North Carolina, citing that new law. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture,” wrote Dan Schulman,…

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