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Deveron Gibbons is still an SOB and here are 10 reasons why he won’t run, much less win, in 2013

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The fallout from St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Van Sickler’s profile of Jeff Copeland, a prominent political organizer in the African American community, continues even after the article’s first publication. Beginning on Wednesday and through this weekend, several sources close to both Copeland and former mayoral candidate Deveron Gibbons have told me that Gibbons is bragging that he was a significant off-the-record source to Van Sickler and is the reason why the article was published. While I doubt Gibbons was…

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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

Deveron Gibbons is still an SOB and here are 10 reasons why he won’t run, much less win, in 2013

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The fallout from St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Van Sickler’s profile of Jeff Copeland, a prominent political organizer in the African American community, continues even after the article’s first publication. Beginning on Wednesday and through this weekend, several sources close to both Copeland and former mayoral candidate Deveron Gibbons have told me that Gibbons is bragging that he was a significant off-the-record source to Van Sickler and is the reason why the article was published. While I doubt Gibbons was…

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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

Goliath Davis loses his take-home car privileges one month after Saint Petersblog breaks story about former police chief being stopped for DUI

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One month after Saint Petersblog broke the story that Deputy Mayor Goliath Davis had been stopped for suspicion of DUI, 10 Connects’ Noah Pransky confirms that Mayor Bill Foster plans on terminating the take-home vehicle privileges of the former police chief. Davis, now a Senior Administrator with the City of St. Pete, came under scrutiny recently after he was pulled over late at night by Gulfport Police for suspicious driving.  He was not charged with anything for the incident. At the time, Mayor Foster…

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More trouble for April Sheffield

Just as the story is breaking about April Sheffield’s multiple issues before the Florida Election Commission, another story is developing.

Goliath Davis in truck that struck 600-pound black bear, wildlife officials say

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Breaking news from Emily Nips: The third-largest bear in recorded Florida history was struck and killed recently by two vehicles, one a pickup truck carrying top St. Petersburg administrator Goliath Davis. The male bear was first hit by a semi-trailer truck around 11 p.m. on U.S. 27, two miles west of Lamont, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Moments later, a passenger truck driven by Davis’ wife, Teresa Anderson, struck the bear and flipped over, totaling the…

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Goliath Davis taps Gary Bush to run City’s codes department

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Gary Bush will assume the position of Director, Codes Compliance Assistance.  Gary has the distinction of working his way through the Codes ranks starting as a Codes Investigator in 1994. In 2001, Gary was the Codes Supervisor assigned to the Midtown Economic Development Initiative and the subsequent Childs Park Initiative in 2007. Gary retired from the military in 1994 as a Master Sergeant.  While serving in the United States Air Force, Gary had a variety of supervisory experiences to include…

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Goliath Davis taps Gary Bush to run City’s codes department

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Gary Bush will assume the position of Director, Codes Compliance Assistance.  Gary has the distinction of working his way through the Codes ranks starting as a Codes Investigator in 1994. In 2001, Gary was the Codes Supervisor assigned to the Midtown Economic Development Initiative and the subsequent Childs Park Initiative in 2007. Gary retired from the military in 1994 as a Master Sergeant.  While serving in the United States Air Force, Gary had a variety of supervisory experiences to include…

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Was Go Davis really coming from the hospital on the night he was stopped for suspicion of DUI?

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On December 15, 2009,  just before two o’clock in the morning, City of St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Goliath Davis was stopped for suspicion of DUI.  During the stop, Davis told the police officer who had pulled him over that he did not have his driver’s license because he had just returned from the hospital — as if going to the hospital excuses one from carrying their driver’s license. But that is beside the point: was Go Davis really coming back…

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