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GOP House candidate says Sansom has to go listen

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Tags: Politics, Ray Sansom, Northwest Florida State College, indictments, Fabian Calvo, Richard Corcoran, Kathryn Starkey

A Republican candidate for a House seat in Pinellas County is calling on Ray Sansom to resign from the Legislature.

Fabian Calvo owns a Real Estate Investment Trust and a property management company in Clearwater. He also hosts a daily radio show on WTAN 1340 AM in the afternoon.

And he’s now one of three candidates to enter the District 45 seat currently held by Tom Anderson of Dunedin, who will leave the seat next year because of term limits.

Calvo says that Sansom, currently await...

Indictments pile up against Sansom; House colleagues react listen

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Tags: Politics, Ray Sansom, Northwest Florida State College, indictments

This week, ousted Speaker of the Florida House Ray Sansom had more charges added to his indictment. A grand jury charged Sansom and his developer friend Jay Odom with perjury.

The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald reported on emails between Odom, Sansom, and the president of Northwest Florida State College about using state funding to construct an aircraft hanger. On the day he became House Speaker, Sansom took a position with the College, whose president, Bob Richburg, was also i...