Keesha Benson Credit: Photo via bensonforschoolboard/Facebook
Sometimes the candidate who attended Pinellas schools from kindergarten all through high school, then earned her Master’s at FAMU, and PhD at UNC, on the way to becoming a college professor is the best candidate for school board. That’s Keesha Benson, and she’s the most electable, hands down, especially when running against DeSantis stan Dawn Peters, who reportedly took the Qanon oath.

District 3: Keesha Benson
District 6: Brian M. Martin
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...