Unfortunately, voters only retired one City Council incumbent on Tuesday — but it was a good one.
Congratulations to Maren DeWeese for ousting 20-year incumbent Mike DeSorbo. I can’t tell you how satisfied I am that our City government is rid of him.
Congratulations also to Megan Benson Pratt for her sound victory in the District [...]
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We received today the following letter from C. J. Lewis, candidate for mayor of Pensacola:
With November 4 almost here I’m writing to thank you for the endorsement of Progressive Pensacola. It more than counterbalances the non-endorsements of the Pensacola News Journal and the Independent Weekly. Both dismissals worked to my favor according to [...]
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Dr. Martin Luther King said in 1967:
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
His words, as they so often do, ring so clear and so true forty years later. I feel that fierce urgency. We can’t wait two or [...]
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Progressive Pensacola endorses Christopher “C. J.” Lewis for Mayor of Pensacola.
We could present a glowing piece about Lewis, his great common-sense ideas, his refreshingly strategic way of analysing our City’s problems; but, as is usually the case with Lewis, he does a better job of saying it himself. Go to his website. Seriously. Read it. [...]
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I just saw my first campaign signs for J. D. Smith, the former City Councilman who once represented north Pensacola’s District 2 from downtown’s Port Royal condos, and whom is running again for Council, this time in an at-large race. Smith faces an uphill battle against Megan Benson Pratt and Wendell Rich, who both have [...]
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The Pensacola City Council will convene a special meeting today at 4:30 PM to discuss the City Manager’s job, which is to be vacated by current City Manager Tom Bonfield upon the completion of negotiations with his new employers in Durham, North Carolina.
Presumably Council members want to start the ball rolling on the selection of [...]
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Important day in City politics. This morning, Pensacola mayor John Fogg announced he will not seek re-election, and a few hours later, At-Large councilman Mike Wiggins filed for the office.
Pensacola has a weak mayor system, and the mayor is essentially merely a third at-large council member. However, there’s about a $9300 salary bump and the [...]
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Jack Nobles and Mike Wiggins, the Pensacola City Council’s two at-large members, and perhaps its two most do-nothing and anti-progress members, now have challengers in this fall’s elections.
Both candidates have been on the City Council since 1995. The last serious challenge to either was in 2004, when Ray Russenberger failed in his bid to unseat [...]
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