Jim Kennedy Files To Run For Second Term On City Council
Saint Petersburg City Councilman Jim Kennedy has filed the paperwork to run for a second and final term in 2013.
Kennedy was first appointed in October 2007 to the District 2 seat, which encompasses the northernmost portions of the city, before winning election in 2009. If he wins reelection, he will serve 10 years on the City Council before he must leave due to term limits.
Kennedy, an attorney, has been a resident of St. Petersburg for nearly thirty years.
As for his campaign plans, Kennedy has or will soon enough brought back in organizer Johnny Bardine, who ran Kennedy's campaign in 2009.
The only trouble I could see Kennedy running into is if the "Stop the Lens" crowd puts together a slate of candidates able to use the debate over the new Pier as a springboard to election.
sparky
11:41 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Well Jim baby i don't live in your district but I will be certain to tell all my friends that do if you were so arrogant as to not have a vote on the pier and are in favor of violating the city charter concerning commercial development of park land in the form of spa beach and the proposed Pier...you just don't deserve a vote from them. Remember that 30,000 people vote in a typical city election and over 20,000 people signed petitions asking for a vote on the pier...don't you think we will be at the polls in force for you and the mayor?
As City Councilman you are supposed to work for US. We will speak in the voting booth.
Tom Lambdon - VOTEONTHEPIER.COM
12:57 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
When Mr. Kennedy decided to publicly tell more than 23,000 registered City VOTERS to sit down and shut up regarding their wishes to have their voices heard through referendum regarding THEIR Pier - upon the certification by the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections of the VOTEONTHEPIER.COM Petition as being sufficient - he wrote his own ticket out of City Hall.
It is even sadder that Mr. Kennedy apparently believes he knows more about what is best for the nearly quarter million City residents on this long term and very expensive taxpayer funded abortion of a FORCED project that the current City administration - including Mr. Kennedy are labeling a Pier - as they march forward with earplugs in and blinders on - while TWO petition drives - one of which that was more than successfully completed on July 19, 2012 with MORE THAN the required number of certified registered City VOTERS having signed the Petition - only to be arrogantly and deliberately ignored by Mr. Kennedy and his other morally bankrupt cohorts currently on Council (with the exceptions of Karl Nurse and Wengay Newton) - resulting in the petitioners being forced by these same idiots - to file a civil suit in Circuit Court - to have a judge decide if Council had a duty to place the preservation and refurbishment of the Pier question before City VOTERS - as the Petition asked.
This will prove to be a HUGE obstacle for you to overcome Mr. Kennedy - as VOTERS DO NOT like to be told to sit down and shut up!
Concerned Floridian
2:29 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
Agreeing w/Sparky and Tom. I did not have a position w/the Pier until the city council made the anti-democratic move of ignoring and acting superlatively deaf to the Vox Populi.
And lets us all remember that Mr. Kennedy was the most virulent and arrogant opponent on this council against the people when he claimed that being 'elected' gave him a blank check to run the city as he wishes until he's ousted. Just with this, he made the call for being ousted. Lets see if voters in his district will remain dormant or not.
Tom Lambdon - VOTEONTHEPIER.COM
2:58 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
DITTO Concerned Floridian!
I believe Mr. Kennedy should consider buying a lawn service to ride a tractor and THINK while he is riding it - of how badly he blew it with City VOTERS!
Elected officials should NEVER fear the outcome of a vote on literally anything - by the very people that elected them to LISTEN to their concerns.
The Pier OBVIOUSLY is a HUGE LONG TERM EXPENSIVE AND CONTENTIOUS ISSUE - and CLEARLY represents the PERFECT example of what a Citywide referendum by electors was designed to decide.
It is OBVIOUS that other sitting council members - and Mr. Kennedy clearly DID fear the outcome of City VOTERS deciding the fate of the iconic centerpiece of the City's cherished downtown waterfront park system - since ALL polls taken over the past couple of years clearly show that more than 3/4 of the City DOES NOT support the half-baked Lens proposal being shoved down their throats by a few TEMPORARY and apparently incompetent elected officials.
We should all pitch in and have a custom hat made for Mr. Kennedy to wear while cutting lawns on his tractor - saying "Arrogance Towards The People That Elected Me Put My Ass Out of City Hall And Onto This Tractor!"
The database of the more than 23,000 registered City VOTERS that Mr. Kennedy told to sit down and shut up on August 2, 2012 WILL be used effectively to REMIND City VOTERS of Mr. Kennedy's inability to represent them any longer.
NOW is the time for City VOTERS to rise up and clean house at City Hall.
Johann
3:34 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I DO live in district 2 and I can assure you the word is out all over Riviera Bay, Meadowlawn, etc that Mr. Kennedy serves only HIS OWN interests!! He brags about having canals dredged, yet he forgets to mention he LIVES ON A CANA THAT NEEDED DREDGING so he could buy a BIGGER BOAT. Spitting in the face of 23,000 registered CITY VOTERS from the VOTP petition drive, and CONTINUING to thumb his nose at another 8-10,000+ STOP THE LENS petition signers. Should he run un-opposed, people fully intend to write-in NONE OF THE ABOVE on the primary ballot. As for Foster, YOU'RE DONE in this town politically. I'd vote for BARNEY THE DINOSAUR first.
Concerned Floridian
10:04 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Johann & all concerned residents of District 2: Please, find someone to run against this incumbent. Otherwise, I'm afraid to say ... Mr. Kennedy is a shoo in.
While I'd love to see 'None of the Above' being elected one of these days - wouldn't this be something to witness, a voice for democracy? - it has yet to happen in recent ages.
On top of this, Jim Kennedy would not care that a large numbers of folks registered their disatisfaction w/a 'None of the Above' vote. As he didn't care for more than 15,000 people who signed a petition expressing their individual and collective desire in re of an important issue, the Pier. In fact he dissed all of those folks, an insulting afront to democracy - and the 'elected official' has shown great arrogance in being proud of his shameful rebuttal ... Shame, shame, shame.
Johann: what about running?
Rider
4:19 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
nic weathersbee
8:04 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
Tom said it all, and then some :-)! No need to say anything more, he covered all the bases. Thank you Tom Lambdon for being the first person to step up against this corrupt Pier debacle. Thank you for calling me on that Saturday afternoon in August of 2010. It's been a long road, and I'm glad we stood up, along with all the other hard working people who helped with this...it's not over by a long shot!