(Updated) Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern said she will run for the Hillsborough County Commission District countywide District 7 seat in 2014.
That seat is currently held by Mark Sharpe, who will be term-limited out in two years' time.
It will not be Mulhern's first attempt to get elected to the Board of County Commissioners. In her first run for public office in 2006, she lost to Rose Ferlita in the race for the District 1 seat. Several months later, however, she took on incumbent Shawn Harrison for a Tampa City Council seat and narrowly defeated him.
Last year she was easily re-elected to that seat, winning a majority of the votes against challengers Scott Strepina and Susan Long.
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.