Councilwoman-elect Megan Pratt has started a blog, becoming the third Council member to do so (Sam Hall and Maren DeWeese being the other two).
Pratt writes:
I’ve been mulling the best way for me to communicate about city issues. I’m not yet convinced that a blog is it, but I wanted to get something started. I hope [...]
The PNJ ran a nice feel-good piece today about how the two mothers of young children elected to the Pensacola City Council (those two being Maren DeWeese and Megan Benson Pratt) bright “new insight” to the Council. I hope they’re right. I hope that being the mother of young children would spur one to think [...]
2008 City runoffs / 2008 Congressional elections / C. J. Lewis / Diane Mack / Jacqueline Shumaker / Larry B. Johnson / Maren DeWeese / Megan Benson Pratt
November 6, 2008 2Unfortunately, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Progressive Pensacola endorses Megan Benson Pratt for Pensacola City Council, District 9 (At-Large).
Pratt, 35, is one of the few young professionals with enough financial and personal stability to run for Council, which is low-paying and currently dominated by retirees. Pensacola, quite frankly, is lucky to have Pratt. A Harvard graduate with both masters and [...]
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 [...]
Bill Slayton / Finance reports / Joe Buehler / Kevin White / LuTimothy May / Malcolm Thomas / Marie Young / Marty Donovan / Megan Benson Pratt / Mike DeSorbo / Mike Wiggins / Ron McNesby / Ronald Townsend / Sam Hall / Wilson Robertson
August 15, 2008 2This year, the Realtors PAC of Florida has given $7,000 to candidates for local office, comprised of $500 donations to 14 different candidates. Who do they like? Who likes their money?
Joe Buehler
for Pensacola City Council, At-Large 8
Megan Benson Pratt
for Pensacola City Council, At-Large 9
Malcolm Thomas
for Escambia Superintendent of Schools
LuTimothy May
for Escambia County School [...]
Megan Benson Pratt is running for Pensacola City Council, District 9 (At-Large). She is the daughter of ECUA board member Lois Benson and the sister of Holly Benson, Secretary of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration.
Pratt brought in $15,575 (the most of any City candidate) in the second quarter. Who wants her on [...]
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