Jamie Bennett's many press releases

From the Jamie Bennett campaign:

BENNETT REPORTS APPROX. $20,000 IN SECOND QUARTER, $51,000 TOTAL
 
St. Petersburg – The Jamie Bennett for Mayor Campaign today filed the required finance report and reported collecting $19,699 in the past 90 days including approximately $2,750 in in-kind donations. Since the starting the campaign, Bennett has raised approximately $51,000.
 
“I’m honored to have the continued support of so many of my friends and neighbors in St. Petersburg,” Bennett said. “The continuing support for my agenda and my message affirms that residents want experienced and responsible leadership in our next Mayor.” 

 
BENNETT PASSES RESOLUTION FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL
 
St. Petersburg – Council Member Jamie Bennett on Thursday successfully passed a resolution through the St. Petersburg City Council urging the Obama Administration and the Florida High Speed Rail Authority to fund high-speed rail investments in Florida that include St. Petersburg. The Council approved Bennett’s resolution unanimously. The resolution is attached.
 
“We have a limited opportunity to jump start our investment in high-speed rail in Florida with federal stimulus funds,” Bennett said. “As Florida’s fourth largest city, St. Petersburg needs to be part of a state commuter rail system and it’s time for us to speak up.”
 
 
BENNETT LEADS EFFORT TO KEEP CITY COMMITMENT TO WORKERS, DISAPPOINTED OTHER MAYORAL CANDIDATES REMAIN SILENT
 
St. Petersburg – During Thursday’s City Council meeting and public comments on the 2010 city budget, City Council Member Jamie Bennett continued to insist that St. Petersburg honor its commitments in approved contracts with city workers.
 
“Our workers make our city run and I’ve been saying since May that we should not use this budget crunch to break our word to them,” Bennett said. “If the leaders of bargaining units will meet us half way, we can and should use our budget reserves to meet our previously agreed to commitments.”
 
“I’m also disappointed that only one of the other nine candidates running for Mayor took advantage of the opportunity to be heard on the budget they must use to run our city next year,” Bennett said. “When the Council held a day-long, line by line budget review on May 26, not a single other candidate attended. As Mayor, you don’t have the option of simply not showing up.”

Bay Buzz here: Kathleen Ford was the other candidate to speak at Thursday's budget forum.

Cristina Silva, Times staff writer

Comments

[saintpetersblog]

So that's just over 16K in cash for the quarter. Not bad, except he raised, I'd say half of that before Ticketgate. In fact, most of that money was either in or on the hook before May 8.

Not that I am bitter.

[Pelican Pete]

There were Three Mayoral Candidates at the forum. Bennett on the dias, Ford who spoke and was incorrect regarding the facts and Bill Foster who was there to support the Police, Firefighters and Paramedics.

[iS cHARLIE STILL MARRIED NOW THAT THE MOVIE OUTRAGE IS OUT?]

Where is my RAY's tickets the tax payers paid for?

[True Blue]

Peter, Peter you continue your lies as you have your whole life. Mrs. Ford was the only one there willing to discuss the FACTS.

[New Dem on the blog...]

Jim ("True Blue" for the rest of you)

Ford's "facts" are what most of us call "fiction." Get over your personal biases, and support a real Dem willing to work not only for the city, but for all its citizens. Seriously, Jim, she's the quintessential DINO.

[Chris]

I have to break with Bennet on high speed rail.
It would be a total loss, and would be heavily subsidized by us suckers.
It would have to hit all the hotels around Disney (high speed, indeed) and Universal, and it would have to go up and down the beaches. And it would still fail.
By the time we pay for it, we will have been able to give everyone living within twenty miles of it a $4000 credit towards an electric auto.
It is insanely expensive, and its riders would have to rent a car anyway, unless they were happy to go exactly where it dropped them.
Of all the issues to make hay with, high speed rail is the worst. How many cops could we hire? How many children could have health care? How many megawatts of photo voltaic solar paneling could we install? How many college educations could we hand out?

The dumbest, absolute worst of ideas.

[shuturyap]

Don't put your head in a hole when you don't know what's in it.
When good goes bad, bad comes to good.
Stimulus flimulus. Screwed up country we live in.

[True Blue]

latest Bennett press release: I have tried to kiss everybody's as_, given them ticklets to the Rays,slaped them on the back, smiled real pretty. So Why can't I be Mayor?

Answer: Because you're an empty suit blowhard that has no ethics and would be as bad as the clown in the office now.

[awhitewolf]

...Has to agree. It would be a difficult choice as to which one is the bigger clown between bennett and tricky rick...

[awhitewolf]

...and high speed rail would be a great idea, if it didn't cost so much to build, and cost so much to maintain, and cost so much to staff, and it generated a reasonable patronage (of paying customers, not the free or discounted rates that will surely evolve in this program for every group that cries poormouth), and if didn't evolve into a giant cluster**** of overweighted management that our governments are infamous for...light rail and high speed rail is but a thinly cloaked ploy to get the taxpayer's eye off the ball...transparent, efficient, practical, and cost effective government...