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Times/Herald introduces useless new feature ‘My Lawmaker’

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Watching a newspaper attempt to integrate its output into an online delivery system is a lot like building a hospital: add a wing here, add a lab there, etc. The only problem is that the elevators never stop on the right floor. It’s that kind of logic that must have led to the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald introducing “My Lawmaker” – a harmless, albeit useless, new feature which allows readers to punch in their address to find…

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Times/Herald introduces useless new feature ‘My Lawmaker’

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Watching a newspaper attempt to integrate its output into an online delivery system is a lot like building a hospital: add a wing here, add a lab there, etc. The only problem is that the elevators never stop on the right floor. It’s that kind of logic that must have led to the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald introducing “My Lawmaker” – a harmless, albeit useless, new feature which allows readers to punch in their address to find…

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Amateur Hour Alert: Another anonymous pro-Charlie Crist website springs up

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A poorly designed, anonymous website supporting Charlie Crist’s campaign for the U.S. Senate has sprung up, only days after truthaboutrubio.com, an anti-Marco Rubio website was linked to a Crist supporter. “Pinellas for Crist” is a haphazard online effort to help Crist win the upcoming straw vote to be conducted of the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee. How haphazard is the effort? Well, these Crist supporters don’t seem to even know which offce Charlie is running for… By the way, if…

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Florida Democratic Party puts its money where its mouth is, sends direct mail for SP Mayoral Candidate Kathleen Ford

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Well, now this race is going to get really interesting… Rumors have been circulating for weeks that the Florida Democratic Party was going to prioritize the St. Petersburg Mayoral Race. There have been whispers about polling, about the SEIU getting more involved, about shadowy 527s with six-figure bank accounts prepared to blast Bill Foster. All of these rumors are about to come true. The first indication that rumor is now reality is this mailpiece for, err, about Kathleen Ford, paid…

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The Worst Election Ever comes to an end

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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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Scott Wagman, the Half-Million Dollar Man loaned, err, raised $271K for the primary

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Final fundraising numbers for the primary in the St. Petersburg Mayoral Race: Jamie Bennett reported $1,000 in contributions. For the primary he raised $47,683. About $5OK less than what he would have raised had he still had me around. Scott Wagman raises $3,735.01 and loans his campaign $30,000 (now $170,000 all together). For the primary he raised a total of $271,635. You may remember Larry and Mitch bragging about their guy raisin’ $500K for this race. Fellas, hate to tell…

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Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young to work on GOTV for Gibbons…and other thoughts on Deveron’s campaign

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Rumors are flying around so quickly, there isn’t enough time for separate posts on all the news coming out of the St. Petersburg Mayoral Race. A few tidbits from the Deveron Gibbons’ campaign: Word is that former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young will be rallying black voters for Gibbons during several GOTV stops at African American churches next Sunday. Gibbons’ media consultant Adam Goodman said on the TV program Florida This Week that he “just saw a new poll that show…

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