The hour is getting late for Rick Kriseman. Even though the primary election won’t be decided until August 29, ballots will be sent to early voters at the end of this week. About 1,000 ballots have already been sent to military and overseas voters. Going by how other local elections have played out, the next two weeks could very well decide whether Kriseman is re-elected.
St. Pete City Council member Karl Nurse is endorsing Rick Kriseman for re-election as mayor. Nurse, term-limited from running again, has served on the Council for nearly a decade, first elected in 2008.
It’s endorsement season in St. Petersburg’s 2017 mayoral election.
St. Petersburg Preservation (SPP) is hosting a discussion next month about “Keeping St. Petersburg Special,” featuring the city’s two leading mayoral candidates. The forum — with former two-term Mayor Rick Baker and incumbent Mayor Rick Kriseman — is Wednesday, Aug. 9 at the Museum of Fine Arts Marly Room, 255 Beach Dr., NE in downtown St. Petersburg. Reception begins 5:30 p.m.; forum is from 6 — 8 p.m.
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, City Council Chair Darden Rice and Sustainability & Resiliency Manager Sharon Wright are distributing a limited number of free tickets to a screening of the upcoming film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power.” The film, which screens Thursday evening, is a sequel to the 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The film again features former Vice-President Al Gore discussing the dangers that climate change presents for the world today and in the coming years and decades.
They’re loud. They’re rude. They’re black (mostly). Their ideas are preposterous. Their ideas are outright socialism. Their ideas are non-starters with 98 percent (at least) of St. Petersburg residents. They are, of course, the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, or as everyone not a part of their organization calls them, the Uhurus. They’re the most hated people in St. Petersburg.
Former two-term mayor Rick Baker has opened up an eight-point lead over incumbent Rick Kriseman according to the latest survey of St. Petersburg’s mayoral race. Baker is at 46 percent and Kriseman is at 38 percent in the latest St. Pete Polls survey, which was conducted on the first day of early balloting in the primary election.