Life and politics from the Sunshine State's best city

Tag archive

Janet Cruz - page 18

Kendrick Meek to submit final Hillsborough petitions

in Statewide/The Bay and the 'Burg by

As U.S. Senate Candidate Kendrick Meek’s historic petition drive comes to an end, former Tampa mayor Sandra Freedman, State Representative Janet Cruz, Tampa City Council Chairman Thomas Scott, Tampa City Council Members Linda Saul-Sena and Gwen Miller and Meek campaign volunteers will submit the final Hillsborough County petitions to the Supervisor of Elections office Monday, March 29 10 a.m. Prior to submitting the final petitions, the group will hold a media availability outside the Frederick B. Karl County Center. By…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

Janet Cruz cruises in H-58

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

Democrat Janet Cruz won an easy victory in a special election for the District 58 state House seat today. Cruz replaces Michael Scionti, who resigned from his post in December to take a job with the U.S. Department of Defense. Among those at Cruz’s victory party: State Rep. Ron Saunders from Key West, the incoming House minority leader. Saunders said the party has high hopes for flipping some Hillsborough House seats to Democrats in the November elections. One of the…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

District 58 voters head to polls

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

From Janet Zink: Voters will go to the polls today in a special election for the District 58 state House seat. The Democratic candidate, Janet Cruz, has the advantage, with more money than her Republican opponent, Hunter Chamberlin, and she’ seeking to represent a district where more than half the registered voters are Democrats. But the one time in decades that a Republican took the post was in a special election, so Cruz is taking nothing for granted. She’s got…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

Early voting begins in House D-58 race

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

From Mitch Perry: Early voting begins today in the House District 58 special election taking place in West Tampa, Seminole Heights, and northwest parts of Hillsborough County. The election is between Democrat Janet Cruz and Republican Hunter Chamberlin, with the winner replacing Democrat Mike Scionti, who stepped down from his seat back in December to take a job with the Obama administration in the Defense Department. Despite the fact that it’s a national holiday, don’t expect a stampede of voters…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

More intrigue out of the aftermath of the Special Election in House District 58

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

At approximately 9:40 p.m., the Supervisor of Elections office in Hillsborough County announced that Janet Cruz had taken 58 more votes than Pat Kemp, and won by 2%, 47-45. Gil Sanchez finished in 3rd place with 8% of the vote. Stunningly, the margin in Hunter Chamberlin’s defeat of Jackie Rojas-Quinones in the GOP primary was just 12 votes, 355 votes to 343, or 1.7% of the vote, but still too big of a margin to trigger an automatic machine recount.…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

Live-blogging and updates of special election in Florida House District 58

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

I’ll be blogging, and tweeting throughout the day with updates about the primary for the hotly contested special election in Florida House District 58. Five candidates – three Democrats and two Republicans – are in a sprint to gain voters’ favor to represent the district, which covers West Tampa, Town ‘N Country, the West Shore business corridor and Seminole Heights. The seat opened when Rep. Michael Scionti, D-Tampa, said on Dec. 7 he was taking a job with the Obama…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

As the mud flies in Dem Primary for H-58, an anonymous blog serves up the dirt

in The Bay and the 'Burg by

With a local Internet site alleging over the past five days that District 58 House Democratic candidate Janet Cruz has been claiming a homestead exemption for a house that she does not live in, the St. Petersburg Times has unleashed three of their best Tampa-based reporters to report on that allegation, as well as a counter-attack by the Cruz campaign. That regards a decade-old charge of child neglect on the part of Randy Wynne, the spouse of Cruz’s opponent, Pat…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

1 … 16 17 18
Go to Top