St Petersburg Passes Anti-Homeless Ordinances

Tampa Bay 10 has a video of the St Petersburg City Council passing ordinances against the homeless. The ACLU and public defender's office attempted to stop the ordinances.

Update: St Petersburg shut down the original tent city at St Vincent De Paul. This forced homeless people to move out of the fenced property and onto the streets. Businesses and residents complained. City Council reacted by creating ordinances that would forbid outdoor camping.

Guess where the homeless are now going to? If you guessed St Vincent De Paul then you are correct.

Mary Mulhern Wins

Congratulations to Mary Mulhern for winning the winning the the district 2 Tampa City council race. Democrat John Dingfelder also won. Democrats I'm not too fond of like Gwen Miller, Tom Scott and Pam Iorio won.

Jim Johnson liveblogged the election and has the play by play details. I can safely say after the election that I thought Shawn Harrison's money advantage was going to give him the edge. So I can't get on Jim getting the Mulhern/Harrison race wrong. Wow, Harrison is even more of a sucky candidate than I imagined.

The good news for the left is we got a progressive on the City Council.