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 [...]
… 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 [...]
You might recall that just over 10% of registered voters took part in the August primaries in Hillsborough County. The final total was 66,150 of 650,739. The Times is reporting that 74,047 people in Hillsborough County have already requested ballots to vote by mail as of last Thursday. That’s about 11 percent of registered voters. In [...]
As far as local elections go, we complain that the local media don’t give us the coverage we want. Of course, the local parties themselves are not all that forthcoming with online information. For as much “communicating” they claim to want to do, local party websites sure are bare: The Hillsborough County Republican Party website has [...]
We recently mentioned the low voter turnout for the primaries in Pinellas and Hillsborough, and suggested that you just don’t care about picking a leader. But was that a fair statement? Creative Loafing’s Wayne Garcia weighed in on the sorry turnout for voting in the primaries, calling it “crappy.” He says the “circumstances” include (my highlights): few [...]
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 [...]
I confess I’m a political junkie. I also confess I assume – stupidly, I guess – that most people are at least somewhat informed about the what’s going on in politics these days. So when my yard dude and his co-worker both disavowed me of that notion Tuesday it broke my heart. “You guys vote [...]
Truth be told, none of the presidential candidates are overwhelming. If we have to forfeit our delegates in any given election, it may as well be this one. So, without a bunch of blah blah blah, here are my picks: I like John McCain for the Republican primary. He’s old. Real old. [...]
OK, so who is gonna’ mark a ballot next week (or mail in an absentee ballott, or perhaps early vote)? [poll=17] Besides the Presidential Primary, the property tax amendment (Amendment 1) will be on the table for your consideration as well as other referendums and local items depending on where you’re voting….
