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By Times Staff
Published December 3, 2005
Campaign rolls along on its energy policy
Most politicians run on their campaign platforms. Scott Farrell, one of five Democratic 11th Congressional District candidates, rides in his. It's a 1990 33-foot Xplorer RV he converted to run on biodiesel or used vegetable oil. Farrell will take the RV to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress for an energy plan to eliminate what he calls America's "Homeland insecurity" - its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. His so-called Real American Values Tour, however, was delayed briefly Friday after the fuel pump broke. The alternative fuel had nothing to do with it, Farrell said. The more likely culprit: the 140,000 miles on the odometer.
County looks to help mobile home residents
Pinellas County leaders have drawn up an ordinance dealing with the displacement of mobile home park residents in the face of redevelopment. The plan would make developers responsible for finding alternative housing and offering rental aid to park residents affected by any rezoning. Officials say the ordinance is the first of its kind in the state. The County Commission might consider the proposal later this month.
Woman jailed for plot against jackpot winner
Winning a $6,000 bingo jackpot almost cost a Hobe Sound woman her life. Now the plot to kill her will cost another woman 20 years. Natia Johnson, 25, watched as Pamela Anderson won her jackpot in August 2003. She called her brother, who shot Anderson outside her home. Johnson, who was captured after being shown on America's Most Wanted, pleaded no contest to attempted murder and robbery and was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. Her brother was sentenced to life in prison. "She made me lose over two years with my children, just because she had the greed to take somebody else's money," said Anderson.
OVERHEARD
"I don't think it'll ever go back to what it was, but we can't live in the past.The good times are today."
--Jose Oural, 81, who helps run Centro Asturiano in Tampa, quoted in the Miami Herald on the glory days of Ybor City.
Lawyer marks Farkas' words on Toronto trip
Not so fast, Rep. Frank Farkas, or so says the top lawyer for the state Senate. A day after Farkas blasted Senate counsel Stephen Kahn for suggesting Farkas wouldn't answer questions about a controversial trip to Toronto, Kahn responded with an account of the day Farkas said no.
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