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Family Affair
By KAREN BRANCH-BRIOSO
The Tampa Tribune
> 7:05 a.m., South Tampa
Laureen Allen
It’s not just the lines of voters that seem kind of sparse here at Precinct 135.
Laureen Allen, wife of School Board candidate Ken Allen, was the first of the sign-wavers to arrive—just ten minutes before the polls opened. And she wasn’t going to be there that long. She’s a schoolteacher and won’t be back until after class.
“I’ll be in my classroom,” said Allen, 57, a Mitchell Elementary first-grade teacher, who also seems surprised that she was the sole campaign worker at the opening of the polls: “During the primary, it was packed.”
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