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Shawn Harrison raises more than $21,000 in HD 63 race in April

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Temple Terrace-based Republican Representative Shawn Harrison raised $21,270 in April, and has over $100,000 cash-in-hand in the House District 63 race. Harrison is trying to defy the odds in this swing district in a presidential election year. The former two-term Tampa City Council member was first elected to the seat in 2010, but lost in the 2012 presidential election year to Democrat Mark Danish. In 2014, with fewer Democrats going to the polls, Harrison was able to retake the seat in vanquishing Danish.…

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Gene Siudut officially files for Tampa City Council seat

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Tampa Palms resident Gene Siudut on Monday became the second candidate to file to run in the Tampa City Council District currently held by Lisa Montelione. Officially, Siudut has filed to run in 2019, when the seat is next up for election. However, Montelione has announced she will be stepping down later the year to run for state office. State law requires that she resign and vacate her council seat by June 10 of this year. Siudut is a New Jersy native who…

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Gwen Graham contributes $1,000 to Lisa Montelione in her bid for State House 63

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Tampa City Councilwoman Lisa Montelione is the first of three major candidates vying for the House District 63 seat to report fundraising totals from April, bringing in $19,490, her highest fundraising month to date. Among those contribution $1,000 to her campaign last month was Cigar City Brewing founder Joey Redner, as well as his wife Jennifer. And a look further back into the Tampa Democrat’s contributions to date include a $1,000 check received in late February from none other than Gwen Graham, the Tallahassee Congresswoman who recently…

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TPD to hold community meetings to get feedback on DOJ report on bike citations

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Nine days after a report issued out by the Justice Department concluded that the Tampa Police Department’s policy of citing black bicyclists was ineffective but not discriminatory, Chief Eric Ward addressed the City Council on Thursday to discuss the steps he will take to implement the report’s recommendations. The report was initiated a year ago, after Mayor Bob Buckhorn and former Chief Jane Castor called for the DOJ’s  Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program to investigate the police department, in…

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Justice Dept. says Tampa Police Dept.’s citation of black cyclists wasn’t discriminatory, but also wasn’t effective in stopping crime

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(Updated) The Tampa Police Department’s policy of stopping and citing black bicyclists was not discriminatory, concluded a report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department. “The bottom-line appears to be that the TPD ‘burdened’ Black bicyclists by disproportionately stopping them in the name of ‘benefiting’ Black communities by increasing their public safety,” the report says. “Yet, our analyses indicate that the TPD’s bicycle enforcement did not produce a community benefit in terms of bicycle safety, bicycle theft, or crime generally but did burden individual bicyclists, particularly Black bicyclists in high…

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Tampa City Council members challenge FDOT officials on TBX

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Officials with the Florida Department of Transportation have received plenty of criticism from upset Tampa residents about the proposed multibillion-dollar Tampa Bay Express project slated to begin construction in the next couple of years. But for the first times in the past year since the plan to build toll lanes along Interstates 275, 4 and 75 was unveiled, those officials received an earful of criticism from public officials on Thursday. Zenia Gallo, Project Manager and Sr. Right of Way Agent…

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Where sh*t stands in Tampa Bay area 2016 House races

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Three of the five Senate races in Hillsborough or Pinellas County feature an incumbent running without opposition. In a fourth race – the one for Senate District 18 – Tampa Republican Rep. Dana Young has no challenger yet, although a Democrat is expected to file next week. As of April, SD 19 is the only Bay area seat with more than one candidate. The majority-minority seat covers parts of west Hillsborough and the southern tip of Pinellas, and is somewhat analogous to the seat currently held…

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