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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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Mitch Perry Report for 3.17.15 — David Jolly to get a challenger?

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Happy St. Patrick Day to you and  yours. Well, it was quite a busy Monday. There were a number of stories I reported on yesterday, but none bigger locally than this: the Pinellas County Democratic Party already has one more candidate to challenge David Jolly in 2016 than they did last year. He’s Eric Lynn, and he’s definitely going to run for the Democratic nomination in the CD13 contest. (Check that. On Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for Lynn told Florida Politics that…

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Rose Ferlita now says she DOES endorse Jackie Toledo for Tampa City Council

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Rose Ferlita has kept a very low profile since losing her bid for Tampa mayor four years ago, so it got heavy play in political circles last week when Ferlita told the Tampa Tribune’s Chris O’Donnell that she wasn’t backing fellow Tampa Republican Jackie Toledo in the District 6 City Council race because of her association with campaign consultant Anthony Pedicini. But apparently that’s no longer the case, as Ferlita has now endorsed Toledo in the March 24 runoff against…

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Jackie Toledo doesn’t back down from mailer that Guido Maniscalco says attacks his grandmother

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The Guido Maniscalco campaign team is lashing out at Jackie Toledo and Anthony Pedicini, her campaign consultant, after a mailer blasting Maniscalco hit homeowners in the Tampa District 6 area on Thursday, just days before early voting begins in their runoff election scheduled for March 24. But Toledo is not backing down. The mailer bashes Maniscalco, claiming his business record is a “mess,” with allegations that the company that he is associated with, Guido Morana Vintage Timepieces, owes nearly $40,000 in back taxes, between…

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Guido Maniscalco & Jackie Toledo fight for momentum in Tampa City Council race

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Guido Maniscalco was on the campaign trail Sunday morning — just not that early. The change in Daylight Saving Time meant that the 30-year-old Democrat made sure he didn’t alienate potential voters by knocking on doors before noon. He was out and about, though, with more volunteers than ever to help him. He’s been given a second life but has a little more than two weeks to close his 17-percentage point gap behind Jackie Toledo. His 38-year-old opponent came in first…

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Bob Buckhorn ready to party on Election Night

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What a difference four years make. On March 1, 2011, Bob Buckhorn and his supporters crammed into JJ’s Cafe and Bar in Ybor City, fingers crossed, hoping he would make it into the run-off election three weeks later. He did, barely, getting 384 more votes than Dick Greco. Flash forward three weeks later, and Buckhorn held his victory night party in the much more spacious Channelside Bay Plaza, where he celebrated his trouncing of Rose Ferlita with hundreds of supporters.…

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Rose Ferlita files to run for mayor of Tampa

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Hillsborough County Commissioner Rose Ferlita filed Wednesday to run for mayor of Tampa. Ferlita, a pharmacist and a former Tampa City Council member, made the announcement in a posting on Facebook and a website, roseformayor.com. “Thanks to technology and using social media, this was a great way to kick off our announcement. And, I think it’s exciting that my friends, neighbors and supporters had the opportunity to hear it from me, first,” Ferlita said in a statement posted on her website.…

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