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Last Call for 5.13.21 â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics
Last Call â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics.
First Shot
Top Republicans in the Senate are planning a post-Special Session fishing trip, and donors are welcome to join.
Senate President
Wilton Simpson and Sen.
Kathleen Passidomo, who is set to succeed him, will host a Key West fishing fundraiser May 25-27. The agenda includes a VIP dinner on May 25, welcome reception and dinner on May 26, and a fishing outing and dinner on May 27.
Money raised will head to the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the main political committee supporting Republican state Senate candidates.
Endorsements in Pittsburgh’s mayoral race have been trickling out for weeks now, but last week Mayor Bill Peduto received the endorsement of two South Hills officials whose names raised some eyebrows: Anthony Coghill and Bob Palmosina.
Coghill represents southern neighborhoods in City Council, while Palmosina holds an Allegheny County Council district that covers some of the same area. But both men are ward chairs on the Allegheny County Democratic Committee a group that endorsed state Rep. Ed Gainey for mayor, and which endorsed Palmosina and Coghill for re-election in the same primary.
“I was in a tough spot,” said Coghill, who chairs the city’s sprawling 19th Ward. The endorsement process, he said, is “the best form of democracy that I know. I wasn’t happy that [Peduto] didn’t seek the endorsement, I can tell you that.” But Peduto has done right by the district, he said, and “ultimately I work for the taxpayers. I have to do what’s best for
PA House of Representatives
State Representative Ed Gainey won the endorsement of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee in his bid for mayor of Pittsburgh Sunday, holding off a spirited challenge from Tony Moreno.
Incumbent Bill Peduto, who both men hope to beat on May 18, did not seek the endorsement. But moments after his 326-224 win, Gainey said the endorsement “speaks volumes. This is the first time I can [remember] them endorsing an African American to be mayor of the city of Pittsburgh. This is just more momentum, he added. We’ve got to unite this city … in the best way possible, and I’ve done that my whole career.”