Lynn Gray Credit: Photo via LynnforSchoolBoard/Facebook
This is a runoff from the summer primary, and the choice could not be more clear.

Former public and private school teacher Lynn Gray, incumbent in District 7 for Hillsborough County (the country’s seventh largest school district) has served the board for nearly a decade.

She placed first in her crowded primary and now faces Karen Bendorf, a middle school teacher who opposes the tax that would raise teacher pay. Bendorf, a pastor’s wife, told the Tampa Bay Times she was inspired to run “after being asked to address a child by a pronoun she found uncomfortable.”

Yikes.

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This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2024.

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...