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Bill Foster rollin’ in the dough

Published on October 5, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

The money is starting to roll in for Bill Foster. His latest fundraising report showed Foster hauled in more than $36K over the last period. And that’s not counting the 12K he raised last Wednesday at the fundraiser AK Desai, Joe Triolo and Jim Holton hosted for Foster at the Venue or the money former Deveron Gibbons supporter Tim Higham raised for Foster last Friday at a fundraiser littered with other Gibbons supporters (I walked by and saw Nick Hansen…

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Rick Baker endorses Bill Foster

Published on September 9, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

From Sharockman: A press conference is about to begin on the steps of City Hall where Bill Foster is expected to announce the endorsements of Mayor Rick Baker and former mayors David Fischer, Bob Ulrich, and Randy Wedding, among others. The list apparently moving to the Foster camp after his first place finish in last week’s primary is long and accounts for nearly 40 years in city history. Among those we’re told are endorsing Foster, a 46-year-old attorney and former…

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The Worst Election Ever comes to an end

Published on September 1, 2009 in Peter/The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

The last coherent thing my father said before he passed three years ago was the famous line from TS Eliot’s Hollow Men: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. But what do you say when something was a whimper all along? The St. Petersburg Mayoral Race comes to its first conclusion on Tuesday and not with a bang but…

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Monday’s Mayoral Wrap-Up

Published on March 2, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

Today is the six-months-and-counting point before the September primary and to mark the occasion, Bill Foster will unveil his “Foster Formula,” although I have a few ideas about what that really means. Even though I think Foster is getting into the race a month later than he should, he is a formidable candidate. He represents a point-of-view, i.e., the religious right, that has no one else to support. Strange then that Foster decided to skip the Pinellas County REC’s Lincoln…

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