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By only 65 votes, Luis Viera defeats Jim Davison in Tampa City Council special election

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By just 65 votes, Luis Viera defeated Jim Davison in the Tampa City Council District 7 special run-off election, taking 50.64 percent to Davison’s 49.36 percent, a difference of only a single percentage point. Viera received 2,588 votes to Davison’s 2,523, just 65 votes out of 5,120 cast. The special election was held to succeed Lisa Montelione, who was re-elected without opposition to the North Tampa district seat in early 2015. Last fall, Montelione announced that she would run for the state Legislature,…

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Democrats have slight lead in early voting in special election for Tampa City Council

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Early voting ended on Sunday for those voting in Tampa’s City Council District 7 special election run-off between Jim Davison and Luis Viera. A total of 575 people voted over the past four days in the election to choose a successor to Lisa Montelione. That included 246 Democrats, 240 Republicans, and 89 non-party affiliated voters. In voting by mail, a total of 3,687 voters had turned their ballots in by Monday afternoon. That breaks down to 1,625 registered Democrats, 1,344…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.5.16 – David Petraeus, another disaffected voter?

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Among the nuggets of information procured by watching the Sunday morning public affairs shows was that David Petraeus was one of the 93 million Americans who didn’t vote for president last month. “I don’t vote,” the retired four-star Army general told George Stephanopolous in ABC’s This Week when asked who he backed for president. “So that’s an easy answer. And I also did not support him nor did I oppose him, nor did I support or oppose any other candidate.” There were reports that…

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Poll of Tampa City Council special election: Luis Viera, Jim Davison tied at 39%

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A new poll taken of the Tampa City Council District 7 race shows a dead heat between Jim Davison and Luis Viera. The  St. Pete Polls survey puts Viera at 39.7 percent and Davison at 39.3 percent, with 21 percent undecided. The new survey shows for the first time that Viera has a chance of winning the race. He finished eight points behind Davison in the November 8 election. A previous survey conducted by St. Pete Polls twelve days ago had Davison up by seven points,…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.2.16 – The Rock in 2024?

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Rick Kriseman’s appointment of former WTFS weatherman Bill Logan to serve in the newly created position of communications director for the public works department is getting (predictably) negative reviews in the Pinellas County GOP world, who think it is more “big government” from the Democratic-leaning administration. It naturally fuels speculation about who will the Pinellas County Republican prop up to challenge the mayor next year, if Rick Baker opts not to not to get into the race. As is usually the case with the former St. Pete Mayor, no one on…

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Bob Buckhorn endorses Luis Viera in for Tampa City Council

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is endorsing Luis Viera in the race to represent District 7 on the City Council. The mayor had remained silent through much of the campaign, but recent comments by Vierra’s opponent, Jim Davison, regarding the possibility of New Tampa seceding from the rest of the city has prompted the mayor to weigh in. “The more I’ve paid attention to this race, the more it became clear that one candidate had the temperament to work with fellow council members and…

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Jim Davison erupts at Luis Veira after Trump joke during second District 7 debate

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The relative comity between Tampa City Council District 7 candidates Luis Viera and Jim Davison exploded about fifteen minutes into their second debate on Wednesday night, when Viera criticized a Davison proposal that would keep the idea of New Tampa seceding from the rest of the city  on the table when negotiating for more services to come to the district. “That is a proposal that is adversarial, that is nonproductive and it is a nonstarter,” Viera said while speaking at…

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