Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 11, 2024
9min0
If strong fundraising and dueling endorsements are any indication, this will be a local race to watch.
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Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 11, 2024Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 11, 2024
6min0
The 2 are evenly matched in campaign coffers, but Scherer has a political committee giving him a boost.
Anne LindbergOctober 6, 2016
6min287
The two candidates in the race for Florida’s U.S. Congressional District 13 entered the Tiger’s Den at a Suncoast Tiger Bay Club luncheon Thursday and walked away agreeing that the other party is a liar. The forum began peacefully enough with Republican incumbent David Jolly portraying himself as he has throughout the campaign — as […]
Mitch PerryNovember 18, 20153min225
Although the conventional wisdom has it that Charlie Crist is the front-runner to capture the Democratic nomination for Congress in the CD 13 next year, Eric Lynn continues to garner endorsements from local Pinellas County Democrats. Among those backing Lynn’s candidacy in a statement issued out by his campaign on Wednesday is St. Petersburg City […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 30, 2015
7min170
2015 was supposed to be the year that the Florida Legislature authorized funding to replenish its depleted film tax incentives package, allowing the Sunshine State to compete with Louisiana, Georgia and other Southeastern states in getting its fair share of movie and television production work. It didn’t happen. Despite the reshaping of the incentives and […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 29, 2015
6min430
Reaction was fierce and accusatory in the immediate wake of the revelations of a Tampa Bay Times story published last month that traced the Pinellas County School Board’s role in resegregating five elementary schools and having them turn into some of the worst performing ones in Florida. St. Petersburg based House Democrat Darryl Rouson called on the […]
Mitch PerryJuly 17, 20157min376
Charlie Crist. Darden Rice. Ken Welch. Dwight Dudley. There are some prominent Democrats whose names have been floated as possibilities to run in the 13th Congressional District race next year, now that the district is likely to be much more advantageous for the party after the Florida Legislature redraws the district in advance of next […]