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New Port Richey and Port Richey elects incumbents in four council seats
Incumbent council members took all four available seats
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Voters in both Port Richey and New Port Richey on Tuesday returned their incumbents to all four available city council seats. [ Tampa Bay Times ]
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NEW PORT RICHEY â Voters in both Port Richey and New Port Richey on Tuesday returned their incumbents to all four available city council seats.
In New Port Richey two incumbents and two challengers sought the two available seats. Voters returned Matt Murphy for a second term and gave Mike Peters his first full term. A council appointee, Peters has only been on the council since November.
The unofficial results are in from Tuesdayâs municipal elections and two current West Pasco city councils will remain unchanged.
Two incumbents in Port Richey and two in New Port Richey all retained their seats after precincts closed to voters at 7 p.m., Tuesday. According to the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections website, www.PascoVotes.com, all votes cast at precincts and ballots submitted by mail are completely reported.
In Port Richey, incumbents Tom Kinsella and Todd Maklary received the two highest amounts of votes, winning the two available seats over challenger Seth Kapp. A total of 656 Port Richey residents cast ballots and Kinsella received 40.85 percent of the vote (268 total). He was followed by Maklary at 38.41 percent (252) and Kapp at 20.73 percent (136).
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Ron DeSantisâ COVID-19 response may be getting dragged through the mud by national media, but a new survey shows Florida voters are fans.
Polling firm Cygnal surveyed 800 likely general election voters in Florida and found 60% believe DeSantis has done a good job navigating the state through the pandemic. That beats the 58% approval earned by the Joe Biden administration and the 49% approval for
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Ron DeSantis gets high marks for his COVID-19 response strategy.
Floridians arenât just fans of DeSantisâ plans; theyâre fans of the man himself, handing him a plus-17 job approval rating halfway through his first term. The media, which has taken to thrashing DeSantis a few times in recent weeks, earned a minus-14 approval rating from the same set of voters.