Month: July 2020
Stubborn Castor Perpetuates Tampa’s Racism Reputation
Recruiting Poll Workers Will Thwart Trump’s Fraud Claims

By Steve Rosenfeld, Editor, Voting Booth In 2000, Ion Sancho had a front-row seat to the partisan mayhem and legal posturing surrounding Florida’s presidential recount. The Florida Supreme Court asked Sancho, then supervisor of elections in Florida’s capital, to be its technical adviser—second in charge—of overseeing the recount, …
DeSantis Plays Defense as Presidential Hopes Fade
Tampa’s Castor: A Distrusted, Unrepentant Racist

By Jim Bleyer Jane Castor wears the title of Tampa mayor but a more accurate representation to the city’s majority of African Americans would be Racist-in-Chief. Her actions as Tampa’s police chief from 2009-2015 undermined race relations and her inaction to repair them as mayor during her turbulent …