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Joe HendersonAugust 21, 2018

Since Susan Valdes entered the race for the HD 62 seat being vacated by House Minority Leader Janet Cruz, well, let’s just say the campaign hasn’t exactly been a well-oiled machine. The decision Monday by Cruz, a longtime friend, to rescind her endorsement of Valdes over the issue of charter school money might raise a […]

Joe HendersonJune 19, 2018

If everything goes as planned, Democrat Susan Valdes will travel to Tallahassee early morning and file paperwork to run for House District 62. Normally, this would be an uneventful event, barely noteworthy. But, of course, that race has become anything but uneventful since Valdes’ surprise and controversial decision to resign from the Hillsborough School Board […]

Joe HendersonJune 11, 2018

Normally, the decision of a local school board member to run for another office — in this case, the Florida House — would be interesting, but not seismic. But this is Hillsborough County, where people have learned to expect the unexpected. So it is with the now-irrevocable decision by Susan Valdes to resign from the Hillsborough […]

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