Tag: Harry Cohen

We hurtle toward next week’s big election in a hurricane of anger and insult, with some mailers you can barely hold in your hands without burning your fingers. In some cases, it’s less impassioned politicking, more all-out dumpster fire. Or a state race in which your choices are, if you believe what the ads say, a candidate who’s against teachers and school kids or a tax cheat, depending. There’s even an ugly smear attempt in a normally dignified race for judge, and another judicial candidate using his more generic middle name because he doesn’t want the "ethnicity" of his first name to hurt him with voters. Sigh. Then, there’s this quiet pocket of politics in the city of Tampa. I know it’s early to talk about the race to replace term-limited Mayor Bob Buckhorn since the city election isn’t until March. Refreshing is not a word you hear much in politics. City Council member and mayoral candidate Harry Cohen regularly names civility in politics as a priority, and the others in the race seem to agree. Or maybe in one local election, we get the novelty of civility in politics.