Here the early voting and absentee ballots received, as per Stafford’s office: City 1: 2,818 — 48% of all registered voters City 2: 2,406 — 48% City 3: 3,310 — 54% City…
Oops, there was an Escambia murder in Oct.
Arthur James Roland, 28, of Pensacola was found shot to death inside a Buick LeSabre about 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 near North S and Bobe streets. This is the 18th homicide…
House District 3
This is just the Escambia County portion of the District. The race pits Republican Clay Ford vs. Democrat Lumon May. Early voting only in House District 3 (Escambia portion) Total — 19,772…
Final Early Voting stats
From Escambia County Supervisor of Elections, David Stafford: These are Early Voting only — does NOT include Absentees returned. 6,172 – Nov. 1, 2008 49,184 Total 24,684 DEM 18,409 REP 6,091 OTHER
College newspapers back Obama 63-1
According to Editor & Publisher, the student paper at Ole Miss, The Daily Mississippian, is the lone paper endorsing John McCain. Republican-roots run deep at my old school. Here’s the list of…
GOP talk show strategy
There is an email circulating among the Republican faithful asking them to inundate the radio shows of WCOA’s Luke McCoy and NewsRadio 1620’s Bubba Bechtol with pro-John McCain phone calls. Seems like…
Senate: GOP will lose seats
Currently the Democrats hold 51 seats in the U.S. Senate. Three Republican senators are retiring — in Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia — one, Ted Stevens of Alaska, has been convicted— so…
But what about the Electoral College?
Obama leads in every state that Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry won four years ago, which gives him a base of 252 electoral votes of the 270 needed to win. Obama also…
WWND?
GOP political expert, Roger Stone, asks on his website, stonezone.com: What would Nixon do? Stone cut his political teeth working for Richard Nixon. He asserts that “Nixon understood that a presidential campaign…
More than third of Floridians have voted
Sarasota Herald Tribune reports that the latest statistics show 34 percent of the state’s 11.2 million voters have cast a ballot in the general election through Friday. Democrats continue to hold a…
Obama pulls further ahead
Over the years, one of the most reliable polls has been Gallup. Their latest poll shows Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing conducted Wednesday through Friday by…
Miami had no murders in October
Looks like Escambia and Santa Rosa counties had none also. Although Santa Rosa had two in the last week of September: A Santa Rosa County man, David J. Lewis, was charged with…
Let’s look at the council reports
For the last reporting period – 10/11-10/30/08: Dist. 1: P.C. Wu $1,350.00 — Mary P Studer $400; RGK Investments $100, Allied Waste $200, SBP (plumbing) $500, Miller Caldwell, Jr. $150 Bob Walker:…
At-large 9 last reports
Megan Pratt wins the prize for best fund-raising – $14,678.67. It’s Who’s Who of Pensacola. There is $3000 loan from Pratt to her campaign. Plus in-kind of $728.67 from Collier Merrill and…
At-Large 8 last reports
Joe Buehler has strong backing from the commercial real estate industry. He reports contributions of $3003 this last period. Beck Properties $500 cash, $453 in-kind. The commercial real estate organization, NW FL…
Loans and In-kind feed last mayor reports
In the Pensacola mayoral race, C.J. Lewis loaned his campaign $5,000 and got a $50 campaign check during this last campaign reporting period, 10/11/2008 – 10/30/2008. Mike Wiggins loaned his campaign $3000…
Robertson is the big fundraiser
The last campaign reports are in: Wilson Robertson, Escambia Co. Comm. Dist. 1: $158,855 Opponent, Davidson: $5,900 Here are the other Escambia County races: Sheriff: Morgan $116,951 Scapecchi $86,753 School Superintendent: Thomas…
Santa Rosa under-delivers on elections
Escambia County has four early voting locations. Santa Rosa County only has two. Escambia was open on Sunday. Santa Rosa was not. I looked at the budgets of the two election supervisors…
Robo calls for Ford
There is an automated phone call being done by Gov. Charlie Crist for Clay Ford, the GOP incumbent running for House District 3. Charlie can’t wait to work with Ford next year.
Big day early voting yesterday
As per the Florida Division of Elections, it was a busy day in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties for early voting: Escambia County, Oct. 30: 5,113 Total: 37,371 Santa Rosa County, Oct…
