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Could Rick Kriseman’s City Council win really be a loss?

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In SaintPetersBlog publisher Peter Schorsch’s rundown of winners and losers from the St. Pete City Council election this week, he counts Mayor Rick Krisemn among the winners. “With [Lisa Wheeler-Brown’s] victory, he has another ally on City Council and the fifth vote for his deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. The mayor also deserves credit for not appearing to put too heavy a thumb on the scale for his preferred candidate,” Schorsch wrote. Indeed, that is a win for the…

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Plea to St. Pete residents: End voter apathy

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Earlier Tuesday, and a bunch of times over the past several weeks, I shamed the Tampa Bay Times editorial board for taking a narrow stance on City Council races based solely on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium stalemate. Now, though, it’s time to praise Times’ columnist John Romano who is not on the editorial board. Looking down the barrel at lackluster voter turnout in what is actually a pretty damn important local election, Romano not so subtly heckled the tens…

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Will Newton hauls in nearly $10,000 in final campaign funding push

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St. Pete City Council candidate Will Newton crushed his opponent, Lisa Wheeler-Brown, in the last campaign finance reports due before Tuesday’s election. Newton raised nearly $10,000 in just one week compared to Wheeler-Brown’s $1,740 haul. The latest campaign finance win brings Newton’s total contributions to more than $72,000 while Wheeler-Brown has raised just $57,000. And Wheeler-Brown has less than $2,000 in the bank while Newton sits with nearly $18,000. That’s a lot of money to work with in the final…

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Second complaint associated with Lisa Wheeler-Brown’s campaign filed with the state elections commission

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Another elections complaint has been filed associated with the Lisa Wheeler-Brown campaign. This time the complaint is not directly targeted at Wheeler-Brown and instead at a campaign consultant and his PAC, the Florida Voters Fund. James Donelon, the same South Pasadena resident who filed a complaint against Wheeler-Brown alleging a slew of campaign finance violations, is requesting the Florida Elections Commission investigate Tom Alte of Blue Ticket Consulting and his relationship between both the campaign and the Florida Voters Fund.…

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St. Pete City Council agrees to Rays deal more than double the previous MOU

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St. Pete City Council approved a new version of a deal to let the Tampa Bay Rays look for possible stadium sites outside of St. Petersburg. Two deals were on the table during a special meeting Thursday — one from chair Charlie Gerdes, the other from Jim Kennedy. The Kennedy plan was approved by a 5-3 vote. Gerdes, Darden Rice and Amy Foster voted against it. Under Kennedy’s plan, the Rays would have to pay St. Pete $4 million a…

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Will Newton plays off campaign finance controversy to one-up Lisa Wheeler-Brown

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St. Pete City Council candidates for the District 7 seat being vacated by Wengay Newton took strides Monday night to set themselves apart from one another. As the only close City Council race on the ballot next month, Lisa Wheeler-Brown and Will Newton took subtle jabs at each other in an effort to further their chances at the polls. During the debate hosted by the local League of Women Voters at City Hall, the most intense moment perhaps came during…

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Perennial GOP candidate Sharon Russ files in HD 70 race

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Republican activist and perpetual candidate Sharon Russ filed to run for the heavily Democratic House District 70 seat held by termed-out state Rep. Daryl Rouson. Russ is no stranger to politics, at least in the Pinellas County portion of the district: she ran for St. Petersburg mayor in 2009 and challenged Karl Nurse for City Council in 2013, but her campaigns nosedived. Russ never made the ballot in the mayoral race, and lost to Nurse 69-18 in the three-way Republican…

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