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Mitt Romney to campaign with Marco Rubio in Tampa today

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will campaign Monday in Tampa with U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, the Rubio campaign announced today. The campaign event will be at 11:30 a.m. at the Blaise F. Alfano Conference and Banquet Center, 11606 McKinley Drive. It is free and open to the public. Romney, a Republican presidential candidate in 2008 and potential candidate in 2012, is expected to endorse Rubio over Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary.

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Bill Foster outlines new parking policies for downtown St. Pete

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Mayor Bill Foster announced on Friday a set of proposed parking changes designed to be more customer-friendly and make downtown parking easier while being fiscally responsible during extremely tight city budget conditions. Changes are planned to take place on June 1, 2010. In a memo to Council, Mayor Foster outlined the following changes: (1) Reduce the number of hours for metered parking from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. for all meters. On the waterfront, metered hours will be reduced by three…

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Marco Rubio to headline Tampa Tea Party rally, will share stage with disgraced doc David McKalip

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Update: Marco Rubio is no longer listed on the website as one of the speakers.  And now the event’s location has changed from the Sun Dome to Chillura Park. Even though he appeared to dodge questions during the Fox News debate about his association with the Tea Party, Marco Rubio will headline a Tea Party rally on Tax Day, April 15.  Sharing the stage with Rubio will be disgraced doc David McKalip, the St. Petersburg surgeon forced to resign his leadership…

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Did Rick Baker, Deveron Gibbons square off at Charlie Crist’s event on Saturday?

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Several sources have called to tell me of an, um, “heated discussion” this past weekened at Charlie Crist’s event at Ovation between former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker and St. Petersburg College Board of Trustees member Deveron Gibbons. According to one account, Baker approached Gibbons and said something to the effect, ‘Are you happy you got your revenge?’ From there, Baker attempted to make nice with Gibbons, but the former mayoral candidate would have none of it, raising his voice…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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Did Rick Baker, Deveron Gibbons square off at Charlie Crist’s event on Saturday?

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Several sources have called to tell me of an, um, “heated discussion” this past weekened at Charlie Crist’s event at Ovation between former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker and St. Petersburg College Board of Trustees member Deveron Gibbons. According to one account, Baker approached Gibbons and said something to the effect, ‘Are you happy you got your revenge?’ From there, Baker attempted to make nice with Gibbons, but the former mayoral candidate would have none of it, raising his voice…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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Ernest Hooper is wrong

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In case you missed it, St. Petersburg Times columnist Ernest Hooper wrote this morning: My friend says Tampa’s declining crime rate will go up a tick if the city “steals” the Rays from St. Petersburg, but is it stealing if St. Pete wouldn’t be upset about the move? Sure, Mayor Bill Foster won’t concede the team without a fight, but the general populace seems more interested in fixing the Pier and completing construction of the new Salvador Dali museum. Let…

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With 45 days to the deadline to turn in 112,000 signatures, Kendrick Meek’s Campaign still struggling to collect required number of petitions

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During the last month, I’ve written extensively about how Kendrick Meek’s sisyphean signature-gathering effort is further behind than the campaign wants to admit. With 45 days left before the March 29 deadline to turn in 112,476 verified signatures, it’s time to update again the status of Meek’s signature-gathering effort. That’s why I am introducing the Will Meek Make It? Meter to track the progress of Meek’s effort to put his name on the ballot via the petition process. As of…

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