RSS Feed of the blog

Contributors:

Reporter William March has covered state and national politics since 1994. Email

Reporter Mike Salinero has covered Hillsborough County government for The Tampa Tribune since 2007. Email

Reporter Lindsay Peterson has been a general assignment reporter at the Tampa Tribune since 2005, focusing on higher education since 2009. Email

TBO RNC 2012 Section

Florida Political Blogs:

• State Of Sunshine
• Pushing Rope
• Interstate4Jamming
• News Service of Florida
• FLA Politics
• Sayfie Review/

News Blog Search

Advanced Search

Most Recent Entries

• How come the poll results don’t match?
• Q Poll: Mack has long lead in primary, ties Nelson in general matchup
• Mack campaign retracts Fortuno endorsement quotes
• Coburn backs LeMieux, answering Mack’s Fortuno
• Q Poll: Romney has significant lead in Florida
• Storm The Swarm: SOCCENT deputy chief asks for technology to stop threat of Iranian small boats
• Nelson disses Obama on Castro daughter
• Hoyer to campaign with Ehrlich
• Mack dumbest speaker in Congress?  It’s complicated
• Guetzloe sentenced for not filing tax returns
• Mack asks feds to investigate LeMieux appointment
• Pentagon Reports Deaths of 7 Troops This Week in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom
• Mack demands investigation of LeMieux appointment
• Ross backs Mack
• LeMieux wins East Hillsborough GOP straw poll

More

• Breaking News
• Command Post Tampa
• Fact Finders - Databay Blog
• Guestbook: Remembering The Fallen Soldiers
• Fresh Squeezed Politics
• RNC 2012: The Road to Tampa
• Political Safari

Monthly Archives

• May 2012
• April 2012
• March 2012
• February 2012
• January 2012
• December 2011

Glorioso to run for Hillsborough election supervisor

Posted Oct 3, 2011 by Christian M. Wade

Updated Oct 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM

As expected, state Rep. Rich Glorioso, R-Plant City, has entered the race for Hillsborough County’s next election supervisor.

Glorioso, who is termed out after serving eight years in the state House, has filed paperwork to run for the seat in the 2012 elections.

A retired Air Force colonel, Glorioso served as a Plant City Commissioner from 1998 to 2004, including stints as the vice chairman of the Public Transportation Commission chairman of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, among other committee posts.

The Plant City Republican will likely face a heated challenge from Democrat Craig Latimer, who serves chief of staff for the current elections supervisor, Earl Lennard. One other, Republican Julianne De Priest also has filed to run for the office, which oversees one of the state’s largest electorates.

Latimer is a former Hillsborough sheriff’s detective who was named chief of staff under former Supervisor of Elections Phyllis Busansky. After Busansky’s death, Latimer threw his name in the hat to take her place, but Gov. Charlie Crist chose Lennard instead.

Lennard, a Republican and former Hillsborough schools superintendent, said he won’t run for re-election in 2012.