Remember when I said Janet Long whined too much. Notice how no one disagreed with me. Well, it appears Long is going to whine right down to the wire in her re-election campaign. What’s interesting is that a friend of mine and Long’s tells me Janet is so sick to her stomach from all of [...]
From Lee Logan: Hillsborough and Pasco county voters now have a little more certainty in the District 12 state Senate race: the Republican Party will choose the nominee. A Tallahassee circuit judge ruled Tuesday that she cannot put Kevin Ambler’s name on the ballot after she removed Republican nominee Jim Norman last week because he [...]
Despite increasing public opposition to doing so (read the St. Petersburg Times‘ editorial here and the Tampa Tribune‘s editorial here), speculation continues that, if directed to select a replacement for Jim Norman on the general election ballot, the Hillsborough and Pasco GOP will choose…Jim Norman. For the sake of argument, let’s assume the Republican Party does pick Norman. The [...]
One smarter-than-me reader of Battleground Tampa Bay kindly shared with me this key Florida Statute that would, by plain reading, keep Kevin Ambler from replacing Jim Norman as the GOP candidate for Senate District 12; F.S. 100.111 (4)(c) reads: Any person who, at the close of qualifying as prescribed in ss. 99.061 and 105.031, was qualified for nomination [...]
RNC chair Michael Steele will be at the St. Petersburg Pier on Monday. From Pinellas GOP chair JJ Beyrouti: Come join us to welcome RNC Chairman Michael Steele to Pinellas County! He will be greeting volunteers, elected officials and candidates at the St. Petersburg Pier. Bring flags, campaign signs of your favorite candidate or make [...]
Mike Fasano’s 2011 Farm Share feeds 500 families
Bob Graham, Alex Sink campaigning for Keith Fitzgerald
The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi asking Rep. Darryl Rouson to ‘pee in a cup’
Jeff Brandes fundraiser at BayCities in Tampa
Rep. Dana Young receives ‘Defender of Liberty’ award from ACU’s Al Cardenas
AG Pam Bondi campaigning for Jim Frishe
