Larry Biddle lends Darden Rice a hand

Larry Biddle, founder of PlanningWorks in St. Petersburg, has an estimable political resume. He was deputy national finance director for the Howard Dean campaign, a deputy campaign manager for Betty Castor's U.S. Senate run and Internet advisor to state CFO Alex Sink.

Using social networking technology to political advantage is one of Biddle's specialties, and now he's using his skills to support Darden Rice, one of two Democrats campaigning for the District 3 Pinellas County Commission seat.

Why Rice? "She's a winner," Biddle said. "She's a candidate that can connect well with people."

Biddle said he's also working on behalf of State House District 48 Democratic hopeful Carl Zimmerman and District 54 Democratic contender George Gonzalez.

Will Van Sant, Times staff writer

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[None of the Above]

Being elected 3 times, Countywide, as a republican, in Pinellas County, says relatively little about Ms Bostock’s being “mainstream…or in line with the thinking of the average voter”…

And what does San Francisco have to do with it…Florida, and Pinellas County Politics (queue the Deliverance Banjo) would never be mistaken for San Francisco…regardless of the liberal political leanings, there is some semblance of culture there and possibly a little more live and let live attitude.

All Nancy’s 3 wins mean, if anything, and in no certain order, is that:

Republican Party Voters, at the behest and education of the Republican Party at any level in this country, actually finished voting farther along the ballot then the ill-served, ill-informed (thanks to the disinterest of the Democratic Party Operatives in educating their electorate) Democratic Voters.

Because of the Democratic Parties disinterest in funding local level viable candidates from their side of the aisle, most Republican incumbents or new candidates for that matter, draw no serious opposition.

As there is a difference in being “beaten” as opposed to “winning or losing”, Nancy has been damned lucky to be elected 3 times to anything. Without the formidable support of a well-organized political machine in the Pinellas County Republican Party, and until very recently, total and complete ineptness of both the State Democratic Party and its puppets in Pinellas, Nancy has been allowed to “seem” as if she is mainstream in any fashion.

Nancy may very well win.

There’s no question she is the frontrunner, but she will not “beat” anyone – she’ll just have won.

And again for the intelligence challenged among us (sometime, self included) don’t just look at the words try to understand the meaning.

Hey None of the Above

Election 101. When you get 50% + 1 vote you win. Long winded obfuscated illogic and condescending attitudes can't change that.

Fact is Bostock was elected 3 times county-wide. The last two were non-partisan elections in which she won by landslides, the last one against a sitting School Board member. This could only have happened with a large number of votes from Independents and Democrats.