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Mike Suarez selected as chairman of Tampa City Council

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It wasn’t pretty. In fact, at the end it got downright ugly, but after a half-hour of voting and and intense discussion, the Tampa City Council elected Mike Suarez on Thursday to be its chairman. It took 14 different ballots to get there. The first 12 times around, it remained deadlocked between three candidates: Suarez, Harry Cohen and presiding chairman Frank Reddick. Councilman Charlie Miranda nominated Suarez, and the two voted for Suarez every time. Councilwoman Yolie Capin nominated Reddick, and with…

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Planned Parenthood official tells crowd it’s guilty only of helping women

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Planned Parenthood has never been under fire (sometimes literally) as they have been in the past year. The reproductive rights organization has had to contend with a series of blows that began last summer with a series of secretly recorded videos purporting to show its officials trying to profit illegally from selling fetal tissues. “As you know, it took America by storm, and we started to fight for our lives, and actually it began this small progression of horribles that…

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Bob Buckhorn poised to sign law decriminalizing marijuana in Tampa

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The City of Tampa will join other towns across the nation in attempting to fight back on the war on drugs. On second hearing, the City Council on Thursday voted 5-1 to approve a new ordinance that decriminalizes the possession of marijuana. Tampa Police officers will now have the discretion of writing up a citation for anybody caught with less than 20 grams of pot. A first offense would be $75. A second would be $150, a third $300 and…

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Rebecca Smith enters HD 60 race

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Tampa businesswoman Rebecca Smith announced on Thursday that she is now a candidate for the Hillsborough County area House District 60 seat. The seat is currently occupied by Dana Young, but she will vacate it this fall, as she attempts to advance to the state Senate District 18 seat recently created due to redistricting. “Over the past three decades, I’ve built a successful business here in Tampa,” Smith said in a statement. “I know what it takes to balance a…

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Nancy Watkins will not run for the Tampa HD 60 seat

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Nancy Watkins, the South Tampa CPA who has served as campaign treasurer for hundreds of local and national Republicans, will not run for the Florida House District 60 seat being vacated this fall by Dana Young. Watkins, who has never run for public office before, had been rumored to be seriously considering running for the seat, which encompasses South Tampa, northwest Hillsborough County, and a slice of South Hillsborough. “I am truly grateful for the incredible amount of encouragement I’ve received…

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More Tampa Democrats indicate no interest in open legislative seats in Hillsborough County

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In a few days from now, or perhaps a few weeks, Democrats in Hillsborough County may rise to announce that they’re challenging Republicans in two nearly created opportunities where analysts believe they have a decent shot at winning in a presidential election year. But that’s not the case today. With a new Senate seat created as part of the implementation of a redistricting lawsuit, Tampa Republican Dana Young has announced that she will depart her House District 60 seat that she’s held since…

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Tampa Democrats ponder entering new campaigns

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The recent creation of a state Senate seat in Tampa via a redistricting lawsuit has spurred some Hillsborough County political figures into action. Republican political figures that is. Dana Young said last week she’ll not run for re-election to her House District 60 seat this year and instead seek the new state Senate seat encompassing west Hillsborough County, extending from MacDill Air Force Base north to Pasco County. That prompted fellow Republican Jackie Toledo to declare her candidacy for Young’s…

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