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Mitch PerryDecember 5, 2017

Former Hillsborough County Commissioner and transit advocate Ed Turanchik is seriously considering entering running for Tampa mayor in 2019. “There’s been overwhelming broad-based encouragement from people that I should do it and that I needed to do it,” Turanchik told Florida Politics Tuesday afternoon. The Tampa Bay Times initially reported his of his renewed interest. The […]

Mitch PerryNovember 6, 2017

If Rick Kriseman ends up surviving Rick Baker‘s formidable challenge to be re-elected Tuesday for another four years as St. Petersburg mayor, it will be despite the intense hammering he received at the hands of the Tampa Bay Times editorial page. The Times recommended Baker in advance of both the Aug. 29 primary and the […]

Peter SchorschMay 14, 2015

In December, I bid on a charity auction item from Creative Loafing (benefiting The Children’s Home) to enjoy lunch with Mayor Rick Kriseman. Five months and $172.50 later, Mayor Kriseman, CL Publisher David Warner, CL News & Politics Editor Kate Bradshaw, The Children’s Home’s Irene Rickus, and I sat down Thursday for a delicious, albeit heavy, lunch at Sylvia’s […]

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Ed Turanchik seriously considers Tampa mayoral run in 2019

Rick Baker thinks media coverage of the race was fair. Rick Kriseman? Not so much

Over lunch, Rick Kriseman tells me he’ll be endorsing Patrick Murphy, will seek re-election