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In first campaign commercial, Charlie Justice goes “positive”

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Pinellas County Commissioner Charlie Justice provided a sneak peek at his first commercial on Friday. The 30-second spot, titled “Born Here,” shows Justice, his wife and daughters on the beach, wading in the water, tossing a disc and walking hand-in-hand on the sand. Shots of Justice at work during a commission meeting are interspersed on top of the beach scenes. The ad, Justice said, goes against the trend of many other campaigns that are sending “negative” messages by going “positive”…

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Pinellas Commission appears ready to get aboard the ferry

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Pinellas County commissioners appear poised to get on board a high-speed commuter ferry between St. Petersburg and Tampa. Commissioners are scheduled to vote on the item during Tuesday’s meeting. If the commission agrees, Pinellas would become the fourth government to collaborate to fund the six-month pilot program. The Hillsborough commission and the Tampa and St. Petersburg councils have already signed on. “If I’m reading the tea leaves, it’ll pass 6 to 1,” said Charlie Justice, chairman of the Pinellas Commission.…

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Pinellas commissioners turn to staff to evaluate ideas for BP money

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After two surveys and a two-hour workshop spent listening to ideas on spending $7.1 million in BP settlement money, Pinellas commissioners turned everything over to the county staff. Once staff members have evaluated the ideas, they’ll bring everything back to commissioners. But it won’t happen before July 19. That’s when commissioners are scheduled to get the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year and staff is tied up with those preparations. “At some point, we will have to start whittling…

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Janet Long, Karen Seel, Ken Welch draw no opposition in Pinellas Commission races

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Incumbents Janet Long, Karen Seel and Ken Welch were re-elected Friday when no one showed up to run against them by the end of qualifying. Incumbent Charlie Justice, a Democrat, will face first-time candidate Mike Mikurak, a Republican, in the Nov. 8 general election. Seel, a Republican who has served on the commission since 1999 when then-Gov. Jeb Bush appointed her to fill an unexpired term, never had the threat of opposition. Sharon McManus had announced she would run against…

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