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Brian Willis touts fundraising prowess in Hillsborough County bid

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Buoyed in part by a very successful inauguration fundraiser/birthday party at an Ybor craft brewery last week, Hillsborough County Commission District 6 candidate Brian Willis is touting his first fundraising totals in a press release issued on Friday. The 32-year-old Tampa attorney and transit activist took in $45,537 in April, the first month that he has officially been campaigning for office and collecting money. The Willis campaign says that is the third best start for a county commission race in the…

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Kevin Beckner starts fundraising early for Clerk of the Courts gig

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When he began running countywide as the Democratic challenger to Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair in 2007, Kevin Beckner started out very early. He had to. Very few people in the political community knew him as he ran for office for the first time; Hillsborough County was and is a huge swath of land to campaign in, and oh yeah, he was an openly gay man running for office on a board that less than two years earlier had voted to…

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Ken Hagan looking at possible run for Tampa mayor in 2019

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Longtime Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan says he’s considering a run for mayor of Tampa in 2019. “I’m encouraged everyday to consider running for either mayor of Tampa or a constitutional seat,” Hagan said on Tuesday. Having just been re-elected to his District 5 countywide Commission seat last year, he admits he’s not in any hurry to consider running for any new office, but confesses that “it’s definitely something I’m going to take a look at.” The 47-year-old Tampa native…

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Hillary Clinton campaign about to ramp up in Florida

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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will be kicking off a major grassroots organizing effort starting next week, sending staffers to all 50 states in the country to begin building up a network of volunteers to start getting selling the message on a Clinton candidacy. It’s being called the “Ramp up Grassroots Organizing Program,” and will be led in Florida by Sandy Ducane, a Fort Lauderdale native and University of Florida alum. Ducane served as the Regional GOTV director in 2014 for the Iowa…

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Pat Frank says she never told Kevin Beckner she wouldn’t run in 2016 — He disagrees

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As we reported yesterday, Kevin Beckner is running for Clerk of the Circuit Courts in Hillsborough County in 2016. Generally that would be somewhat interesting news for local political junkies and fans of the Hillsborough County commissioner, who is going to be termed out of office in a year and a half and needs to find another position to run for if he wants to continue to stay in public service. But the big story here is that he’s running…

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Tampa City Council taps Frank Reddick to become new chairman

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It was over in less than a minute. The much anticipated vote for City Council chair was decided quickly this afternoon, as the newly sworn-in City Council named Frank Reddick to become their new chairman for the next year. As expected, it was a close vote, with Reddick defeating current chair Charlie Miranda on a 4-3 vote. Voting for Reddick (besides himself) were Yolie Capin, newly elected Councilman Guido Maniscalco and Mike Suarez, the man considered to be the swing vote…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.24.15 — Election season ends in Tampa tonight

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The city of Tampa’s uneventful election season comes to a halt tonight. By 8 p.m. we should have a winner in the only City Council race that remains undecided — the District 6 battle between Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo. I hate the overuse of the term “Seinfeld” to describe something as being about nothing. So I’ll refrain from calling this a “Seinfeld election season,” but really, what have been the big issues in the city that have been discussed…

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