The St. Petersburg city election was held Tuesday and almost no one showed. A paltry nine percent of the registered voters bothered to cast ballots. Only 14,500 of you showed up. That’s a record low, by the way. Turn-out was so sparse that as I walked in to my precinct at about 2 [...]
Tom at the New Southside wants to know: “Do you want the Saint Petersburg City Council to give your tax money to the Uhuru movement?” He says the Baker administration has offered too much support to the violent group, and the St. Pete City Council has kept that support to a minimum. With [...]
City of Tampa elected officials were sworn in yesterday. Directly following, the city council chose Gwen Miller as the chairwoman, again. Mayor Pam says mass transit will be her focus for this next term. Not so fast… Linda Saul-Sena has been on the Metropolitan Planning Organization for 20 years. Gwen Miller decided that’s long enough. [...]
With the last of the Tampa City Council elections finally over, we can now move on to the speculation of just where the city is heading. We have to discuss Joe Redner at the start. The interest that he helped garner in this race was significant. His efforts to focus on [...]
9:02 pm - The results are in. Gwen Miller has won re-election to the City Council. There were 297 more votes cast in this election than the total cast in District 1’s primary. Almost as many as were cast in the Mayoral election (91 votes short). Turnout was indeed higher. City Council, District 1 112 of 112 Precincts [...]
I decided to live blog the runoff election results – mostly because it was so much fun to do the first time. PoHo has a report that turnout would be around 14% – about the same as for the primary. 7:07 pm - Miller takes the early lead with the early voters, by an almost two-to-one margin: [...]
Today is the run-off election in Tampa. There are two seats on the ballot. District 1 pits incumbent Councilwoman Gwen Miller against the infamous Joe Redner. District 7 has two New Tampa residents Frank Margarella versus Joseph Caetano. District 7 is easier to predict than District 1. Caetano has the better [...]
The Miller vs Redner Tampa City Council Race has sure generated a lot of interest. Of course, the well known and controversial Joe Redner has helped bring real focus to the seat. When the St. Pete Times endorsed Joe, I was somewhat surprised, but when the Tampa Tribune endorsed Gwen Miller, I was shocked. Only [...]
According to the supervisor of elections, turnout in the first two days of early voting for the runoff is 32 percent higher than the same period in the primary election. Of course the supervisor of elections can barely spell his name, so I wouldn’t count on this. Assuming it’s true, this bodes well for Gwen Miller – [...]
