Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Earl Lennard made official Wednesday what seemed to be implied last week – that he won't run for re-election in 2012.
Last Friday Lennard's chief of staff in his office, Craig Latimer, filed papers to run for the office himself in 2012, which, to say the least, might have made things a bit uncomfortable if the boss intended to run.
But that's not the case now, Lennard told the St. Pete Times and Tampa Tribune.
And Lennard says, because Latimer is now a declared candidate, he will remove his name from the office's website, which had been the source of some controversy.
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.