A seat on the Tallahassee City Commission is up for grabs, and more than a dozen candidates already have pursued the rare opportunity to hold elected office without having to campaign. Gov. Rick Scott suspended City Commissioner Scott Maddox last week after Maddox and former Downtown Improvement Authority Executive Director Paige Carter–Smith were indicted by […]
With 63 of 66 precincts reporting, John Dailey is the next Mayor of Tallahassee. Dailey just edged Dustin Daniels, with 51 percent of the vote so far Tuesday night. Elected to City Commission Seat 3 is Jeremy Matlow, who claimed victory late Tuesday. And Dianne Williams–Cox handily won the race for Seat 5. The races are nonpartisan. Dailey, 45, is a […]
Attention usually goes to the candidates vying to take the Governor’s Mansion, or to the three Cabinet offices lining the halls of the Capitol’s plaza level. But in Florida’s capital, there are a series of down-ballot offices and two local charter amendments on the ballot. Here’s a brief rundown: Mayor Most voters are aware that […]
Kristen McDonald, who’s been communications director for the Florida House Republicans, is heading to Hill+Knowlton Strategies‘ Tallahassee office. The move was announced Wednesday. She joins another House staffer now there: H+K vice president Ryan Duffy, who was chief spokesman for former House Speaker Will Weatherford in 2012-14. McDonald was communications director for the Office of the Majority […]
Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) is promoting Ron Bartlett to deputy general manager of H+K’s Florida operations. Alia Faraj-Johnson is also moving up to lead the firm’s Florida public affairs practice. Bartlett, an H+K senior vice president, most recently served as head of the Florida public relations practice, the company’s largest state-based public affairs practice. Faraj-Johnson served as […]
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