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St. Pete Beach sues its own lawyers for bad counsel on Sunshine Laws

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[UPDATE 11.09 with comment from Bryant Miller Olive representitive.] After it was sued by a resident in 2011, the City of St. Pete Beach is suing its lawyers for providing negligent legal counsel. When the city hired the Bryant Miller Olive law firm, it was under the impression they were specialists on Florida Sunshine Law. Under the supervision of Susan Churuti, Michael Davis and Suzanne Van Wyk, city commissioners held several so-called “shade meetings,” which were assumed to be exempt from Sunshine…

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Leslie Waters raising money by the bucketload

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Leslie Waters, a former Republican member of the state House of Representatives who termed out of office, has been a fundraising machine. As of the last reporting deadline, she has raised $8,150, more than double the $3,495 that incumbent Tom Barnhorn has raised. Waters has also drawn heavily on her Republican pals in her run for this nonpartisan seat: the Belleair Women’s Republican Club ($500), the Suncoast Republican Women’s Club ($100), and the St. Petersburg Republican Club ($100). Waters also…

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