Katie Blaxberg at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on Oct. 4, 2024. Credit: Photo by Ray Roa

Like in Hillsborough County, this race is a runoff from the summer primary, and the choice is obvious.

While the races are nonpartisan, Republican Katie Blaxberg, running to serve District 5 in the country’s ninth largest school district, has drawn a bipartisan and wide-ranging coalition of support, which should come as no surprise.

Despite being a first-time candidate, she was an aide to former House Rep. Chris Latvala, and is even-keeled and wholly devoted to parents, but not in the Moms For Liberty kind of way.

M4L, however, is an inspiration for Blaxberg’s opponent Stacy Geier. Yikes.

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This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2024.