Sam Hall’s District 2 canceled out Ron Townsend’s District 7: +84 vs. -79
PC Wu’s District 1 canceled out John Jerralds’ District 5: +241 vs. -225
This referendum was won on the east side of Pensacola.
PC WU: Y: 1264 N: 1023… Difference +241
Sam Hall: Y:869 N: 782…Difference +87
Maren [...]
10 City Precincts had more No votes than Yes votes:
Sam Hall – District 2
#51 Ferry Pass Y:6 N:8
#106 Grace Lutheran Y:187 N:194
#108 Holy Cross Y:112 N:128
#110 PCC Y:14 N:22
John Jerralds – District 5
#98 Macedonia Y:302 N: 605
#41 Bayview Park Y:179 N: 228
Jewel Cannada-Wynn – [...]
City Attorney Rusty Wells issued today a memo to Mayor Mike Wiggins on the new charter, which I have received a copy of. It’s a preview to the full presentation Wells plans to give to the City Council at its Committee of the Whole meeting on Dec. 14. The new [...]
Peter Ellis, the editor of the St. Augustine Record, recently began a blog with an angry post that suggests he is starting his new site under duress:
My first encounter with a blogger was a miserable experience. He reported stuff on his blog about The Record that was wrong and [...]
Mobile Press Register is reporting: “Officials at Pensacola Greyhound Track in western Escambia County expect the track’s poker room to open “around the end of January,” general manager Nick Schlikin said in a Pensacola News Journal report. Construction has yet to begin on the poker room, which is expected to [...]
District Yes %
Wu: 55%
Hall: 53%
DeWeese: 62%
Johnson: 61%
Jerralds: 43%
Cannada-Wynn: 54%
Townsend: 47%
Sam Hall, Maren DeWeese, Larry Johnson and Diane Mack came out big for the charter. Their influence and impact on the voters is evident, especially DeWeese and Johnson.
On the other hand, P.C. Wu [...]
Collier Merrill hosted a successful fundraiser for Holly Benson last night at The Fish House. Benson is running for the Republican nomination for Florida Attorney General. She is the first Panhandle native to run for a statewide office since Skip Hunter ran for Insurance Commissioner in 1994. She was introduced [...]
“I firmly believe the voters are always right” – Charlie Fairchild
Whenever you hear Charlie complain about the Community Maritime Park or the new charter, remember this quote. The voters are right and they didn’t agree with Charlie on either issue.
[...]YES for Approval 7,762 (55.2%)
NO for Rejection 6,308 (44.8%)
Total votes cast 14,070
We will analyze the vote further tomorrow, but the message of change that began in September 2006 with the CMP vote and was continued in the 2008 City Council election is still alive. We can trust the voters to see through all [...]
Press Release:
Despite a slow economy, tourism numbers in the Pensacola Bay Area were the second-highest in history. From Oct. 1, 2008 to Sept. 30, 2009, overnight visitors to the area generated $133 million in lodging revenue.
2007-08 was a record year for the Pensacola Bay Area tourism industry with lodging [...]
What is your prediction for the charter referendum – use percentages? For the tie-breaker, predict total votes cast, too.
[...]The No Boss Mayor effort may have actually had more to do with the state and national interests wanting to stop “strong mayor” than any local grassroots effort. In reviewing the board minutes for the Florida City and County Management Association, I came across this entry from a board meeting [...]
Press Release:
Escambia County Supervisor of Elections David H. Stafford today reminded voters that all mail ballots for the City of Pensacola Charter Referendum must be returned to the Elections Office no later than 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 24th. Voters who have not yet mailed their ballot should deliver [...]
The shortage of H1N1 swine flu vaccine in some parts of the country continues to be a concern of the federal government's vaccination authorities, immunologist Anne Schuchat said this afternoon during a briefing for bloggers on the pandemic. "This has really been bumpy," Schuchat said as she fielded questions from [...]
As of Saturday, 12,144 votes had been received by the Supervisor of Elections. The over 65 voters are still the largest percentage of the voters – 4,743, 39.1 percent of votes cast. That age group has voter turnout of 59 percent. The votes are 4-to1 to the under 35 year [...]
From our research, one of the stronger links between No Boss Mayor and the ICMA is Beth Rawlins, a Clearwater political strategist who specializes in helping Florida cities stop efforts to convert to Mayor-Council formats and to fight consolidation attempts around the state of Florida. Rawlins is who No Boss [...]
Help Manna Food Bank. “Fill the Mayflower” will be at Cordova Mall in front of World Market today and tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 25 from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Coastal Moving & Storage will have their trucks at the mall accepting food donations [...]
All ballots for the Charter Referendum must be received by the Supervisor of Election by tomorrow. If you haven’t mailed your ballot, please drop off at the Supervisor of Elections offices at 213 Palafox Pl, Suite 4. If you lost your ballot, they will give you a new one and [...]
On November 2 when the No Boss Mayor had released its challenge that both sides should tell the voters who is supporting each side of the charter issue, No Boss Mayor already had the $17,000 ICMA check in the bank. The first report was only through Oct. 30. The No [...]
Thanks to a public records request, the IN obtained a copy of the electronic filing of the last campaign report of No Boss Mayor. This is not the official report – NBM has put that in the mail so the final copy may be different.
What were they hiding from the [...]
From Newsweek:
1. Steve Jobs – got people to stop thinking about computers and the Internet as weird, complicated things
2. Jon Stewart – gone from optional to indispensable.
3. The Google Guys – brought the ethic of speed, automation, and efficiency to the work of the mind
[...]
Tim Eagan – former Marty Donovan campaign worker and the man who wanted so badly to present to the Pensacola City Council his plans for a multimillion dollar development at the Port of Pensacola – faces a new charge – failure to appear. Eagan was charged on Nov. 16 for [...]
In ten months Marco Rubio has gone from 5 percent of the GOP vote in 2010 U.S. Senate race to a whopping 37 percent. Gov. Charlie Crist has seen his margin shrink in the 43-point swing, according to a poll by Daily Kos.
Republican Primary – poll 11/16-11/18
Charlie Crist (R) 47%..( [...]
The New York Observer reports “…Morning Joe is struggling to hang on to viewers. So far this fall, from Sept. 1 through Nov. 13, according to The Observer’s analysis of Nielsen numbers, Morning Joe has averaged 357,000 total viewers and 124,000 in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic—down 35 percent and [...]
Orlando Sentinel reports how a Winter Garden couple and their son were terrorized for two days by four people who kidnapped them at gunpoint, forced the woman to withdraw nearly $24,000 from the bank and shot her as she tried to escape. The family lived in 3,700-square-foot house inside a [...]
I got up early this morning and listened to Fox News while I was making coffee. The news anchor signed off his broadcast with, “This is Fox New–fair, balanced and unafraid.” It really struck me as odd. What national news network is truly afraid? What good journalist lets fear impact [...]
Another bit of irony, the anti-charter group is now warning people about the provision that would allow petitions and initiative with signatures from 10 percent of the registered voters.
They are saying, “It’s too low. Fairchild and Donovan would be doing petitions on everything.”
Charlie Fairchild is one of the founders [...]
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, is sharply critical of recommendations from a health panel that said this week women in their 40s don't need routine mammograms.
Wasserman Schultz is a prominent breast cancer survivor.
Here's what she's said on MSNBC (about 4 minutes into the' [...]
I attended today a luncheon for Take Stock in Children – a college scholarship program for Escambia County’s public school students. Each year, sixth grade public school students who are financially eligible can apply for this program at their school and are chosen through a selection process. Students selected will [...]
Courtney B. Peterson has prefiled to run in 2010 for a Pensacola City Council District 2 seat that is currently held by Councilman Sam Hall. Peterson is a member of PYP and should be a very credible candidate.
[...]
For the last two years I've voted in the Hugo Awards, yearly literary honors for science fiction and fantasy (but mostly science fiction). I skipped the best novel category because I hadn't [...]
According to the Mobile Press Register, The Mobile City Council voted 6-1 this morning to take out more than $80 million in bonds to refinance old debt and help pay for the construction of GulfQuest, an interactive maritime museum on the downtown waterfront. What no petition drive?
Pensacola has Marty [...]
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions: Mike Bruce $100
No Boss Mayor is apparently changing its name to “No Backroom Deals, But Ours.”
[...]Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions:
Charles Presti $100
Dr. Richard Hawkins $350
Still no word from No Boss Mayor on who repaid co-founder Charles Fairchild his $3000 loan or how they are paying for their campaign expenditures. Why is No Boss Mayor so reluctant to tell [...]
Today’s column: Don’t let fear stymie strong mayor change
“Diane Mack is right. It’s better to vote to establish a “strong mayor” in Pensacola than to heed the exaggerated fears of opponents, who see conspiracies everywhere and use scare tactics worthy of Sarah Palin’s “death panels” by implying that change will [...]
Press release:
Escambia Sheriff’s Investigators are asking anyone who may know the whereabouts of Terri Lynn Lewis, (40) of Pensacola, to call the Sheriff’s Office at 436-9620 or Crime Stoppers 433-STOP.
Ms. Lewis may be a possible witness to the Oct 10th 2009 murder of Derry Dickerson (81) who was found [...]
Press Release
A delegation representing the City of Pensacola and Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport met with Southwest Airlines executives today (Friday, Nov. 13) in Dallas.
“We had a very productive meeting with top Southwest executives,” said Pensacola Mayor Mike Wiggins. “Everyone was forthright and all the participants left the meeting with [...]
Supervisor of Elections David Stafford says that while he isn’t the authority to determine whether C.J. Lewis violated Florida Election laws, it does appear, in his opinion, that flyers don’t qualify as “independent campaign expenditure” because they don’t expressly advocate a position for or against the referendum and therefore would [...]
Former mayoral candidate C.J. Lewis may have violated Florida Elections laws with his recent mailing of 5,000 flyers to Pensacola voters regarding his stance against the new charter referendum.
Under Florida Elections Laws: “An independent expenditure means an expenditure made by a person for the purpose of expressly advocating the [...]
In a big blow to the No Boss Mayor effort, the Pensacola City Council’s most independent member, Diane Mack, has announced that she is supporting the new charter proposal. She says that while both sides of the charter issue had “engaged in a fairly equal share of exaggeration in their [...]
Many of the same players that supported the biggest backroom deal in the history of Pensacola—the reopening of the General Pension (Read General Pension Fiasco) have now manipulated the campaign finance laws to hide their biggest contributors. Mike Wiggins, Paul Young and Mike DeSorbo all voted for the pension [...]
Supervisor of Elections David Stafford reports that 7,990 ballots have been received by his office, about 1,600 today alone. He believes that about 14,000 votes will be cast, a 37-percent turnout.
A big question is whether the under 35-year-olds will vote on the charter referendum. As of Monday, less than 7 [...]
What if you haven’t received your ballot in the mail or threw it away thinking it was junk mail?
You can still vote. Call the Supervisor of Elections at 595-3900 to check the status of your ballot. Voters needing a replacement ballot –if ballot was destroyed, spoiled, lost, or not received—must [...]
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions:
Jere Peacock: $500.00
Toni Tan: $100.00
Robert Patton: $100.00
No report from No Boss Mayor since Nov. 2. Their last report only showed that they had less than $2300 in the bank. The best guess from different marketing firms is that they [...]
It has been two days since we emailed No Boss Mayor for their financial information. Still no replies. As you may remember, No Boss Mayor sent out a press release on Monday, November 2 with a draft of their first campaign finance report, which wasn’t due until Nov. 6. Since [...]
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contribution:
Melinda Hilterbrand 500.00
This is the fourth financial report released by this PAC.
[...]Dara Kam, political reporter for the Palm Beach Post, is in town investigating the recent Gov. Crist appointment of former ECSO CFO and current bar owner Steve Stevens to the Florida Public Service Commission. She caught with Stevens at his bar “Rick’s Cabana” and blogged on that and his promotion [...]
Still no reports from the No Boss Mayor PAC—-the one who believed a week ago that the voters should know who is backing each political action committee. If you believe that both sides should tell the voters who their backers are, please email the No Boss Mayor folks and let [...]
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions:
Col Richard J. And Betty Hooton $100
Laura Keene $250
Barry Beroset $250
John Beroset $50
Corbett Davis $400
Deedee Ritchie $100
