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Park wins big!!!
The Community Maritime Park was resoundingly passed last night: Yes 10,297 No -8140. The results are unofficial, but the 56% for the park is expected to hold. Save Our City got 3,716 fewer votes than they did in 2003 when the same group under a different name defeated the first Trillium plan. The [...]
Young voters swamp polls at 5 pm
Our readers - under 40 years old - hit the polls heavy after work. Veteran poll watchers report more young voters than past elections. Will it be enough to pass the park and elect Grover Robinson? We'll know in a couple hours.
Voting Problem Reported in Duval
"Duval County ran out of ballot in 4 precinct and sent people home and now are asking that they return and vote by 7pm. It was Democrat Ballots, of course." - Linda C Hicks Spencer State Committeewoman of Nassau County (DEM) Jacksonville is in Duval County.
Jim Davis Mid Day Report
Dear Rick, Alicia Rodriguez, one of our many volunteers, making GOTV calls in our Tampa Headquarters As news pours in from all over the state, one theme seems to carry from the Panhandle to the Keys – turnout is low. The fact of the matter is, the fewer people who vote, the more each [...]
Rod Smith Mid Day report
We can win this today -- but right now, all bets are off. With the skies pouring down rain in South Florida, we face a huge risk of people staying home. And we need every single vote. Every vote counts so much that we're asking you, please: if you have a car and an umbrella, get out there and [...]
From When Pro Baseball Was King In P’cola
Hi,We are having an auction on the 16th of September. Featured in this auction is a Babe Ruth-signed baseball. It was signed in Pensacola in 1929 when the Yankees played the Pensacola Fliers at Legion Field. Babe Ruth signed about 100 balls and passed them out to the children. This ball has [...]
Community Maritime Park – Election Night Celebration
Apple Annie's inside Seville Quarter Tonight - 7 to 10 p.m. The band Rumor Mill is playing.
Mid-day poll watch report – updated
Supervisor of Elections David Stafford reports City of Pensacola precincts have been steady. It's been slower in the county. Cokesbury polling place has been steady, but Stafford's Palafox office and Bayview Center have been slow. There is expected to be a steady stream of voters from 4 pm until [...]
Email from SOC supporter
Rick, How 'bout this one for a real tear jerker... Welcome to Studerville! We snicker and give WHOPPER promises for your money and your property! Won't be a dry eye in the whole county! bill P.S. My son who is 31, leaves Escambia County this week for Georgia. Reason: He's fed up with all the [...]
Edwin Roberts campaign party
Edwin Roberts’ Victory Celebration Heritage Hall, Seville Quarter (Corner of Government & Tarragona) Tuesday, September 5 6:00 p.m.
9/11 Rememberance
From an email: Please join us in this FLY THE FLAG campaign and PLEASE forward this email immediately to everyone in your address book asking them to also forward it. We have a little less than one week and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into [...]
Husker shares video
From the 9/2/06 Nebraska vs. Louisiana Tech game This video is awesome! Since you may not ever get to a game in Lincoln I thought you might like a sense of what it's like to be there in person. Thanks, John Slattery