The Political Whore

Of the Big Six candidates for St. Petersburg mayor (Jamie Bennett, Kathleen Ford, Bill Foster, Deveron Gibbons, Scott Wagman and Larry Williams), the only one that I have not had a chance to have in the CL Studio was Williams — until now. The former St. Pete city councilman came in recently to tape his half-hour on the HoCast, talking about how to battle the city’s crime problems and whether he is behind the eight ball because he got into the race late.

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With a hat tip to Peter Schorsch at his blog, it appears the St. Petersburg Times local politics blog Bay Buzz had a post late Wednesday, about St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Paul Congemi and an incident at a KFC restaurant. The post was subsequently pulled from the blog (and restored after further reporting on Thursday). But thanks to Google Reader (and Google is forever) the original can be shared here.
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With 83 days until the election, NBC’s great Chuck Todd breaks down the electoral math.

• War over. Or is it?
  
• Shouldn’t somebody be paying attention to John McCain?
• And can we stop paying attention to Joe Lieberman already?
• Corporate income tax? What corporate income tax?
• St. Pete cop cleared in the shooting of Javon Dawson.
• Michael Phelps keeps on winning gold.
• Best Buy inks deal to start hawking iPhones starting on Sept. 7.
• One pissed off waiter sounds off.

Three sad semesters / It was only 15 grand spent in bed / I thought about the army / I dropped out and joined a band instead:

• State climate change commission public hearing in Tampa tonight.
• Booking video shows American Idol finalist’s arrest.
• Not only can’t the SPPD keep cops on board, they can’t even get them through the academy.
• OFF TOPIC: Jerk Ty Pennington poppped for DUI.
• What’s Plan B for Iraq?
• Legislature: Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
• Florida’s leading Christian political grassroots group shuts down.
• Feds probe South Florida election.
• Real election reform in Florida? Try Sarasota.
• OFF TOPIC: Verizon says no to Akon’s sexytime show.
• Stick a fork in Rudy??
• Candidates, Mormons on evolution.
• Strib to cut 145 newspaper jobs.
• Free the campaign debate videos!!
• EMILY in Miami.
• California: Giuliani, Clinton lead in poll.