Julie Brown, who is challenging John Dingfelder for his seat on the Tampa City Council, has released a list of her Neighborhood Leadership Team, working with her so "that the voices of the neighborhoods are heard at City Hall.â€
She's got some recognizable names on it — but not always for their neighborhood activism. Only two of them are neighborhood association presidents, according to the city's civic association roster, one is a developer/real estate developer and another is a commercial real estate lawyer.
Here's the list (with my comments in brackets):
[Former chief circuit judge] Dennis Alvarez, Davis Island
Laura & Buddy Blain, Hyde Park
Henry Brown, Hyde Park Preservation
Margaret Hamrick, Port Tampa
[Former Hillsborough County Commissioner] Chris Hart, Bayshore Beautiful
Dave Hubbard, Bayshore Gardens
Mike Hursey, Gandy Sun Bay South [president of the neighborhood's civic association]
Linda & Bill Jennings, Hyde Park
[Arts patrons] Bonnie & Jim Judy, Palma Ceia
[Real estate lawyer] Marion Mathiason, Parkland Estates
Leon & Diane Mezrah, Harbour Island
Jim Murman [husband of former state Rep. Sandra Murman and a powerful trial lawyer in town], Davis Island
[Developer and real estate investor] Park Newton, Governors Place
Tom Rockey, Palma Ceia
Renee Rodriguez, Port Tampa
Al Steenson, Gandy Sun Bay South
Hon. Trey Traviesa, Harbour Island
Jorge Ugarte, Interbay [president of the neighborhood's civic association]
Gene Wells, Ballast Point
[Longtime Hillsborough school principal and the namesake of the high school in New Tampa] Paul Wharton, New Suburb Beautiful
