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hagan pulls a johnson

County Commissioner Ken Hagan is using the same tactic Buddy Johnson used to get his name out for the next election. He’s distributing campaign material made to look like public service announcements. See for yourself. Wayne Garcia writes, A curious piece of political literature has been hitting South Tampa homes over the past few days as [...]

shocking news: buddy johnson is a doofus

Ernst and Young released their audit of our Supervisor of Elections budget: … former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson overspent his budget by nearly $1 million last year and then violated state law by failing to reimburse the county. …former Hillsborough Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson mishandled grant money, failed to properly oversee finances within his office [...]

buddy gone, still making news

Poor Buddy can’t catch a break.  Buddy Johnson was defeated by Phyllis Busanksy in the November elections.  But for some reason, he continues to show up in the newspaper. Apparently, Buddy signed Kathy Harris to a term that exceeded his own employment, sticking Busansky with the bill. Then Busansky found uncounted ballots from Temple Terrace, which may [...]

buddy johnson shines

… like a ten year old turd. Here it is, two days after election day, and we still don’t have a full count of votes in Hillsborough County. “Hillsborough County stood out for Election Day miscues.“ “To have more than 80,000 votes uncounted by the end of Wednesday and pushed into Thursday is a total [...]

educating voters

He may as well hold a seminar. Instructor Buddy Johnson takes you through a step-by-step guide on “How to Exploit Loopholes and Pay Less Taxes using Greenbelt Exemptions in Hillsborough County when You Don’t Really Deserve It, or Even Want Much To Do With Agriculture“ I’m a bit tired of picking on Buddy Johnson.  But [...]

johnson again defending office

Current Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson is an incompetent boob, who can’t keep his own finances straight, much less run an election. And there he was again Tuesday night, trying to explain computer problems that Hillsborough County experienced. It was a database communications glitch caused by vendor Premiere Election Solutions (formerly known as [...]

early voting starts monday

Your pal and current Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson, reminds us that early voting begins Monday, January 14.  From the press release: Beginning Monday, January 14 thru Saturday, January 26, 2008 Hillsborough County residents will have the opportunity to cast their votes early for the Presidential Preference Primary election. There are thirteen early voting [...]

buddy johnson under fire again

St. Pete Times: Hillsborough is lagging behind the rest of Florida in switching to a new voting system and wasting time needed to test the machines, work out any bugs and train staff and volunteers before the state’s fourth-largest county goes to the polls. Previously: Elections office employees told to keep yap shut At best, Buddy Johnson [...]

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