Before you vote on Tuesday, make sure you check the location of your polling place. Voting locations have changed for many who will be voting in Tuesday’s special election for Lakeland city commissioner. And for quite a few voters, postcards that arrived in the mail last week contained incorrect locations. Tip: Look up your polling place online.
Tag: 2019 City Candidates
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City Candidate Forum: LkldLive
Two of the three candidates for Lakeland City Commission — Patrick Shawn Jones and Bill Watts — participated in a moderated debate tonight at LkldLive. Check the video below. The first few minutes are missing because of technical issues, but we’ll be adding a separate video of that potion soon. Tuesday is Election Day in […]
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City Candidate Forum: Dixieland Neighborhood Association
All three candidates in next Tuesday’s special election for Lakeland City Commission — Patrick Shawn Jones, Sara Roberts McCarley and Bill Watts — spoke and answered questions tonight at a meeting of the Dixieland Historic Neighborhood Association at Hillcrest Coffee. To our knowledge, it is the one open-to-the-public event during the shortened campaign season where […]
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Meet City Commission Candidates at Tuesday Forums
Two forums scheduled for Tuesday evening will let Lakeland voters meet and hear from candidates running in the Jan. 15 special election to fill the Southwest District seat on the Lakeland City Commission. All three candidates have agreed to speak at the Dixieland Historic Neighborhood Association’s 6:30 meeting at Hillcrest Coffee, 119 Hillcrest St., organizers […]
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City Campaign Coffers Vary: $400 to $30,990
Between the two of them, Patrick Jones and Bill Watts have raised a little over $1,000 for their City Commission campaigns. Sara Roberts McCarley has attracted 11 individual $1,000 donations, part of a campaign treasury topping $30,000.
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Candidate QA: Sara Roberts McCarley
In preparation for the Jan. 15 City Commission special election, LkldNow sat down with each of the three candidates and asked them the same questions — some serious and some light-hearted. The idea is to give voters a chance to get to know each of the three candidates better. Here is a transcript of our interview with […]
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Candidate QA: Patrick Shawn Jones
In preparation for the Jan. 15 City Commission special election, LkldNow sat down with each of the three candidates and asked them the same questions — some serious and some light-hearted. The idea is to give voters a chance to get to know each of the three candidates better. Here is a transcript of our interview with […]
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Candidate QA: Bill Watts
In preparation for the Jan. 15 City Commission special election, LkldNow sat down with each of the three candidates and asked them the same questions — some serious and some light-hearted. The idea is to give voters a chance to get to know each of the three candidates better. Here is a transcript of our interview with […]
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City Commission Race: Ledger Coverage
As a voter research tool, LkldNow is compiling links to Ledger coverage of the early 2019 special election race for Lakeland City Commission: Jan. 13: Candidates weigh in on monument, police, taxes Jan. 12: Commission candidates talk broadband, Bonnet Springs Jan. 11: Lakeland commission candidates weigh in on deveopment Jan. 8: Candidates share vision during […]
