Is a crowded Tampa City Council Special Election a gift to the GOP?
n 2012, as the GOP faithful were descending upon Tampa for that year’s Republican National Convention, a billboard along Interstate 275 announced to attendees a big, bold welcome to the city.
The billboard included what was a fairly well-known factoid locally at the time, but probably little-known elsewhere, that Tampa was home to a Democratic Mayor (Bob Buckhorn at the time) and an all-Democrat City Council.
More than a decade later, it’s still that way. But could a Republican claw back a seat on the otherwise liberal dais?
Rep. Dianne Hart worries it could happen. Speaking to Creative Loafing Tampa, Hart said she was concerned about the potential for vote-splitting that could benefit Republicans in the upcoming Special Election for the District 5 seat on the Tampa City Council.
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