Fresh rumors put Kathleen Ford in St. Pete mayor race mix
January 16, 2009 at 2:59 pm by Wayne GarciaFirst it was a Tweet from St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler:
HowardTampaBay My Sunday column: St. Pete mayor’s race. Wanna take bets on Kathleen Ford entering? Who do you like?about 1 hour ago from web
Then BayBuzz weighed in with this:
The buzz around town is that former city council member Kathleen Ford has reconsidered and will run for mayor.Ford declined to comment on her mayoral ambitions, but confirmed that numerous community leaders have approached her about running.
“There are a lot of people concerned about the issues facing the city and the lack of leadership to address the crime problem, the decline of Baywalk, the outrageous property taxes collected over the past eight years,” she said. “Folks want an open, honest, accountable and affordable government. We are tired of the secret deal making.”
I said on WMNF’s Radioactivity on Wednesday that Ford’s name had dropped out of the murmurs about who’s in and who’s out, but that there wasn’t another candidate running from the ranks of the, for lack of a better term, revolutionaries in St. Petersburg, many of whom have taken up under the umbrella of POWW on the baseball issue. The absence to date on the mayoral ballot leaves that sector of St. Pete politics wide open for a Ford run.
