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A wounded Ken Welch got circled at St. Pete’s first mayoral debate
The whole stage came for the incumbent, and he had few answers worth hearing. The post A wounded Ken Welch got circled at St. Pete’s first mayoral debate appeared first on Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government. .
St. Petersburg is, for all its sunshine and geography-is-destiny optimism, a city of discontent. That’s not the worst civic setting to have — South Florida has its corruption, Jacksonville and Orlando are soulless, Tampa is forever unfulfilled — but discontent is the ‘burg’s resting state.
It’s a place stitched from dozens of well-defined neighborhoods that, come election season, get pitted against one another like the Greek and Italian city-states I’ve been reading about from this side of the Mediterranean.
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