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C-SPAN covers Tampa Bay; Florida League Of Women Voters says it's stopping voter registration efforts

05/13/11 Robert Lorei
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Tags: C-SPAN, Debbie Lamb, LWV, League of Women Voters of Florida, League of Women Voters, Deidre MacNab, HB 1355, elections, 2011 Legislative session

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk with C-SPAN producer Debbie Lamb about C-SPAN's "local content vehicle" tour of the Tampa Bay area. C-SPAN producers are spending one week here visiting various literary and historic sites, and interviewing local historians, authors and civic leaders.

During C-SPAN’s inaugural tour stop in Tampa/St. Petersburg, the network will also record interviews about the city’s plans for the 2012 Republican National C...

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League of Women Voters urges Gov. Scott to veto elections bill; hints at lawsuit listen

05/12/11 Seán Kinane
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Tags: 2011 Legislative session, elections, voting, League of Women Voters, Rick Scott

The Florida Legislature passed an election bill that supporters say will help crack down on voting fraud. But opponents, including the League of Women Voters, say there isn’t widespread voting fraud and the bill, if signed by Governor Scott, will make it more difficult to vote in Florida. They are asking Governor Rick Scott to veto the election bill. Mickey Castor is president of the League’s Hillsborough County chapter. She is the stepmother of Democratic U.S. Representative Kathy Castor, bu...

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League of Women Voters president calls FL election bill an assault on voters listen

04/22/11 Lisa Marzilli
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Tags: HB 1355, SB 2086, League of Women Voters, Deirdre Macnab, Rep. Dennis Baxley, voter suppression, elections, 2011 Legislative session

Thursday night the Republican controlled Florida House overwhelmingly approved a sweeping and controversial elections bill, sponsored by GOP Representative Dennis Baxley. Among other things, HB 1355 and it’s Senate companion SB 2086 will prohibit updating personal information, like name or address...

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Miami-Dade County voters recall local elected officials by a landslide. listen

03/16/11 Joshua Lee Holton
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Tags: elections, recall, Rick Scott, Miami

South Florida residents voted yesterday to recall Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. Amid the massive recall campaign building in Wisconsin, public outcry over state budget deficits, government corruption, and incompetence has now led to one of the first major recalls of local elected officials in the country.

Alvarez drew criticism for cutting public worker salaries by 5% while raising the salaries of his personal staff. Political activist Millie Herrera says that many of the coun...

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Interview with Tampa Mayoral candidate Rose Ferlita

02/15/11 Robert Lorei
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Tags: Rose Ferlita, panhandling, homelessness, Cuba, Rays stadium, elections, Tampa election

Coming up next on Radioactivity an interview with Rose Ferlita who is running for mayor of Tampa. Ferlita is a Tampa native. She is by profession a pharmacist- having once owned a local drug store in Seminole Heights, Ferlita now works for a pharmacy in South Tampa.

She served from 1999-2006 as a member of the Tampa City Council and Member of the Hillsborough County Commission from 2006-2010.

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City Council hopefuls talk panhandling listen

01/21/11 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: Tampa City Council, elections, panhandling

Yesterday Tampa City Council voted four to three to support an ordinance banning panhandling on the city’s busiest streets. Today, in Downtown Tampa, twelve candidates from three council districts weighed in on the conversation, and they had a wide range of takes on the issue of a panhandling ban.

Those who vote strictly along party lines have a little more work to do when choosing who will represent them at the local level. City council elections are nonpartisan, and often driven more by ...

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Many are skeptical of Haiti election listen

12/03/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: Haiti, earthquake, elections, Jean Bertrand-Aristide

The London Telegraph reported today that between two and three thousand Haitians protested the results of Sunday’s presidential election in the capitol of Port Au Prince. Some of the twelve presidential candidates were reportedly among the protestors. A United Nations peacekeeping official has meanwhile warned that the international community would pull its support from the country if it did not accept the results of the election. Preliminary results are expected to be out Tuesday. This wee...

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USF holds straw poll, shows Sink victory but conservative turn listen

10/21/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: USF, elections, straw poll, Alex Sink, Rick Scott, Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio

Polling may shape many people’s outlook on the upcoming midterm elections, but some say they don’t offer an accurate sampling of who will actually show up at the ballots. Today a mock election took place at the University of South Florida, and the results show a turn to the right.

If the University of South Florida were an accurate representation of Hillsborough County on the whole, Alex Sink would be the next governor, getting 53 percent of the vote to Scott’s 33 – a 20-point margin. All ...

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Haitian Presidential forum in St. Petersburg listen

10/18/10 Sarah Curran
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Tags: Haiti, elections, Eckerd College, St. Petersubrg

As the small Caribbean nation of Haiti shook on January 12, 2010, the hearts of people all around the world shook with it. Over 200,000 people lost their lives to the disaster and billions of dollars worth of infrastructure laid in ruble. Now the country is hoping a new president will raise a new and more powerful Haiti out of the ashes.

“I am watching My country and it is dying”

Haitians like Beatrice Abbott gathered at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, last Saturday, to h...

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USF Tampa will host forum for Haiti presidential candidates listen

09/23/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Haiti, USF, elections

Note: as of Sept. 29, this forum has been moved to Eckerd College in St. Pete. October 16th from 2pm until 4pm in Fox Hall.

The people of Haiti will choose a new president this fall. Like all elections, the candidates will debate. But the location of one forum might take you by surprise: At least ten of the candidates for president of Haiti will debate in October on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

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