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Mary Mulhern says ‘thank you’ to supporters as she prepares to exit Tampa City Council

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Dozens of people in the Tampa progressive community gathered Wednesday night in Ybor City to say goodbye (for now) to Mary Mulhern, the Tampa City Council woman who is leaving the board due to term limits next week. “Mary has always stood up for everybody in this community,” said Tampa attorney and prominent Democrat Gary Gibbons, who introduced Mulhern on the stage in the courtyard of Gasper’s Grotto. “Sometimes she was the only vote on a tough issue, and she…

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Early voting begins in Tampa for City Council runoff

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Early voting in the District 6 City Council contest between Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo has begun. It continues through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the following poll places. ♦ C. Blythe Andrews Jr. Public Library ♦ Fred B. Karl County Center, 16th Floor ♦ Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Library ♦ North Tampa Branch Library ♦ Robert L. Gilder Elections Service Center ♦ West Tampa Branch Library However, the only citizens who can vote in the contest are those who live in District…

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Majority of Tampa City Council members express concern over negativity of District 6 race

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Five of the seven members of the current Tampa City Council have composed a statement expressing their disdain with the negative attacks that keep on coming in the District 6 City Council race between Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo. “While none of us are strangers to the rough and tumble of the political process, we find the introduction of third party attacks that cannot be traced to be a very alarming and destructive development,” says the letter, signed by Council members…

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Mike Suarez defeats Susan Long in Tampa City Council District 1 race

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Incumbent Tampa City Council member Mike Suarez defeated opponent Susan Long, a longtime Seminole Heights neighborhood activist, in Tuesday’s race for citywide District 1. Final numbers give Suarez, a third-generation Tampa resident, the substantial victory with just under 62 percent. It will be his second four-year term on the council. For many municipal elections, incumbency sets a high bar. In Long’s case, a clear victory over Suarez would have been particularly challenging. “He is better known,” Long told Florida Politics’ Mitch Perry earlier in the day.…

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Frank Reddick gives his theory on why black turnout will be low in today’s Tampa election

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With the lack of a competitive mayoral race and two of the seven City Council seats not even on the ballot today, voter participation is not expected to be very robust in today’s municipal election in Tampa. One of those two council members who didn’t get an opponent and thus was automatically re-elected in January, District 5 representative Frank Reddick, says the fact that he’s not on the ballot will directly affect the black vote in Tampa today. “It’s hard…

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Tampa City Council candidates talk about favorite Cuban sandwiches & other not so crucial minutiae

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Tuesday night’s Tampa Bay Young Republicans City Council forum was the last official scheduled campaign forum of the 2015 campaign season, and while District 1 candidate Susan Long said she couldn’t recall a comment she made at an earlier debate because “there’s been so many of them,” the fact is that this was a relatively light schedule of events compared to the race four years ago, when a wide-open mayoral contest brought much more intense attention to the campaign. The…

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

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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…

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