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Sep 13-19, 2006

Sep 13-19, 2006 / Vol. 19 / No. 26

Morning Roundup

Feeding time: The heart and soul of the Seminole Heights blog is moving (gulp) to Lutz! Tampa Bay tax revolt overview. More bad news for Jim Davis: two South Florida Democratic mayors endorse Charlie Crist, including the DINO (Democrat In Name Only) mayor of Fort Lauderdale. A wider view of slippage in Democratic support for…

by Wayne Garcia

Cat Trap Fever update

Our intrepid South Tampa cat trapper Petra Gearhart, profiled in this week’s issue, offers an update on the status of abandoned cats at Holiday Mobile Home Park. As of Sunday night, she has trapped and neutered 80 homeless cats found in the 24-acre trailer park off of Interbay Boulevard. “When I took this on I…

by Alex Pickett

Norm Roche’s letter to the editor

Norm Roche was a unsuccessful candidate for Pinellas County Commission against incumbent Calvin Harris, if you recall, and he's upset with a St. Petersburg Times editorial excoriating Pinellas Democratic Chairman Ed Helm on Sunday. Here is the letter to the editor he has submitted to the Times, in full and, as yet, unpublished: Allow me…

by Wayne Garcia

Good thing they caught that typo

Tampa Bay’s 10 reporter Mike Deeson thought he had a pretty good scoop: At a time when city of Tampa employees were getting raises around 3 percent, Mayor Pam Iorio’s political guru Fran Davin was slated for a whopping 17 percent hike for her part-time special assistant job. Deeson — who skewered Davin earlier this…

by Wayne Garcia

Phyllis’ swift preemptive strike

Congressional District 9 candidate Phyllis Busansky is attempting a preemptive strike against what she believes will be a nasty ad campaign coming from her opponent, Gus Bilirakis, who has hired the same firm that did the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004. She's also getting in a little fear-driven fundraising. On Friday, Busansky's…

by Wayne Garcia

Do you, Col. Jones?

Am I the only one who cringes every time I see a Jim Davis Campaign news release that pointedly leads with a reference to "Colonel Jones" as his lieutenant govenor running mate? I know the Democrats feel they have to overcome an anti-defense perception among voters, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.

by Wayne Garcia

Morning Roundup

The last week of summer: Katherine Harris is on her own. Oops, maybe not. Tampa Taxi Shots: "I really believe the answer to this war is to kill all Muslims on Earth and destroy any written or computer record of this horrible religion." Oh, and of course, the media is to blame. Davis losing the…

by Wayne Garcia

Morning Roundup

A bit under the weather for a second day, but well enough to post these: Tampa Rail on Ralph Mervine's latest sales job. Democrats in Pinellas and Hillsborough, you ain't alone: Polk County Democrats are dysfunctional, too. Sarasota County blinks in its growth-management war with its cities. WaPo's The Fix blog has primary election winners…

by Wayne Garcia

Morning Roundup

Big, big day: Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel kiss and make up … OK, they don't quite go that far, but the two leading Dems did reach an understanding. Another ass-kissing Tribune editorial about Mayor Pam. This time in defense of not cutting taxes. Just trying to head off the coming … TAX REVOLT!! day two,…

by Wayne Garcia

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