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City Council candidates at Tiger Bay today

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The two races for St. Petersburg City Council District 5 and 6 seats each share common elements. They both contain economically and racially diverse areas of the City with some of the most valuable, and most economically troubled real estate. They also feature open, or nearly open, seats as opposed to other districts where the incumbents are fairly securely entrenched. But the most interesting element each shares is the field of candidates. Each has a presumed front-runner. In District 5…

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Pinellas Realtors explain endorsements

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Is this going to be one of the new trends this election season, in which organizations explain their endorsements? Sierra Club explained why it endorsed Scott Wagman for St. Petersburg Mayor; now the Pinellas Realtors are explaining (albeit with several spelling errors I had to correct) the endorsement they made last week in the City Council races: District 2: James Kennedy – Kennedy earned the committee’s recommendation because of his commitment to growth management planning as well as his overall…

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10 things I think I think about the latest campaign fundraising reports

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1. I was one of the first to call for the City Clerk to post the Campaign Treasurer reports online, and while I appreciate the initial effort to post PDFs of the reports, the city needs to take the next step and create an accessible online database to see who’s giving what. Political Whore Wayne Garcia echoes this call in his cover story on how to fix Tampa Bay politics: “While we’re at it, how about better, more user-friendly interfaces…

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Jungle Terrace to host candidate forum

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From the Bay Buzz: Hear from the candidates at the Jungle Terrace Civic Association meeting Monday. The public meeting will be at 7 p.m. at Walter Fuller Recreation Center, 7891 26th. Ave. N. Candidates will give an introduction and answer questions. Jamie Bennett, Paul Congemi, Kathleen Ford, Bill Foster, Deveron Gibbons, Scott Wagman and Larry Williams are all scheduled to attend. In the City Council races, District 6 candidates Karl Nurse and Vel Thompson are scheduled to attend, as is…

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Pinellas Realtors endorse Angela Rouson, Karl Nurse, Leslie Curran and Jim Kennedy

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The Pinellas Realtor Organization has endorsed Angela Rouson for the District 5 seat on the St. Petersburg City Council. The official announcement has yet to be made, but they have also endorsed all of the incumbents, Karl Nurse, Leslie Curran and Jim Kennedy.

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Karl Nurse vs. The Tomato Cans

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Last Sunday, Bill Safire wrote in his “On Language” column about the use of “Straw Man” in political speechifying, in which you set someone up just to knock them down. Safire uses President Obama as an example when he says “I know some folks in Washington and on Wall Street are saying we should just focus on their problems.” Some folks, like those who are never named but are always wrongheaded extremists. Straw Men lurk everywhere in St. Petersburg politics.…

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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

Two best websites may be from City Council candidates, not mayoral contenders

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Of the 22 individuals crazy enough to run for elected office in St. Petersburg, the two with perhaps the best websites are candidates for City Council, rather than the better-funded candidates for Mayor. Well, mayoral candidate Scott Wagman has the best website, with plenty of YouTube videos. But at an expense of $20K, the cost of Wagman’s website far exceeds its value. Jamie Bennett had a good-looking, workhorse of a website, loaded with several active blogs. But since I left…

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