Angela Birdsong Credit: c/o Angela Birdsong

Three of the races here are no-brainers, but for some reason, voters are a bit confused about District 2. Perhaps it’s the name recognition of Commissioner Ken Hagan—or maybe it’s the more than $416K he’s raised to his opponent’s $68K—but hopefully Angela Birdsong beats the incumbent this time around (she lost to him in 2018 by nearly 5 percentage points). Hagan claims to support term limits, but has skirted them for two decades by bouncing between districts. Birdsong is better on mass transit and brings fresh ideas to the chair.

District 1: Harry Cohen
District 2: Angela Birdsong
District 5: Mariella Smith
District 7: Kimberly Overman
See all of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s election 2022 endorsements on this handy ballot cheat sheet.

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This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...