St. Petersburg political candidates

Mayor

Candidate, Age Biography at a glance

Patrick Bailey, 41 Owner of a Clex Collections, a bill collection agency in St. Petersburg. The city native is making his first try for public office. Bailey declined to answer questions about his educational background, saying it "is not a fair question." He has not been a member of any civic, fraternal or professional groups or previously worked on political campaigns. He says that his main qualification for the job is that his "heart is in St. Pete," and that electing him will place government in the people's hands. Bailey is married and has four children.
ASSETS: Collections business, lawn care business, stock.
LIABILITIES: loans.
SOURCES OF INCOME: businesses.

Ronnie Beck, 46 Owner of Sunwest Space Systems Inc., a 21-year-old company that makes shop drawings for steel fabricators. He was born at MacDill Air Force Base and went to Robinson High School in Tampa. He earned an associate's degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1979. He started attending the University of South Florida in 1980, earning his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1990. Before he opened his own business, Beck drafted steel shop drawings and sold telescopes. Beck has served as president of the Riviera Bay Neighborhood Association and as president of the USF Pinellas County Alumni Association, and he is a member of the St. Petersburg Area Black Chamber of Commerce. He has served on the city's Board of Adjustment since 1997, when he ran an unsuccessful campaign to serve District 2 on the City Council. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Astronomy Club, the Southeast Planetarium Association and the National Parks Association, among other groups. He also has provided space slide presentations to elementary and middle school students during the past two decades. He has been married since 1974 and has no children.
ASSETS: home, cars, stock, bonds, IRA.
LIABILITIES: loans.
SOURCE OF INCOME: his company.

Rick Baker, 44 President and part owner of the Fisher and Sauls law firm in St. Petersburg. Baker is making his first run for office after advising Mayor David Fischer on all three of Fischer's mayoral campaigns. Baker, a Chicago native, earned his bachelor's degree in management, his master's degree in business administration and his law degree from Florida State University after graduating from Brandon High School. Baker's civic activities include founding the Council of Neighborhood Associations' Neighborhood Leadership Program, serving as president of the Suncoast Children's Dream Fund and founding and leading the YMCA Neighbor-to-Neighbor Program that provides Christmas trees, dinners and toys to needy families. Baker was local chair of Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign, is chairman of the board of Florida International Museum and formerly served as chairman of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. Baker recently wrote a book chronicling the history of St. Petersburg called Mangroves to Major League. He is married and has two children.
ASSETS: mutual funds, savings accounts, home, law firm stock.
LIABILITIES: none.
SOURCES OF INCOME: legal salary, publishing company, investment portfolio, bank interest.

Kathleen Ford, 43 An attorney and City Council member who moved to St. Petersburg in 1987. Ford was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Yorktown, Va., the oldest of six children. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1979 from the University of Virginia, where she was co-captain of the women's track team. After working in pediatric intensive care units in Houston, she went to the South Texas College of Law and earned a law degree in 1985. She met her husband, St. Petersburg native Harvey A. Ford, in Houston. The couple moved to St. Petersburg and she worked as a personal injury consultant reviewing medical records for five years. In 1992, she started working as a trial lawyer part time, but she has put that on hold to serve on the City Council. Ford has served as president of the North Shore Neighborhood Association. She has been a Junior League of St. Petersburg board member, a Girl Scout leader and a Northeast Little League volunteer. She is married and has a 15-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.
ASSETS: house, IRA, stocks.
LIABILITIES: loans.
SOURCE OF INCOME: city council salary.

Louis Miceli, 38 Factory worker at Jabil Circuit in St. Petersburg who also has worked part-time doing maintenance work for the minor-league St. Petersburg Devil Rays. Originally from Passaic, N.J., Miceli graduated from Northeast High School in St. Petersburg. Miceli is making his first run for public office. He is married and has three children.
ASSETS: home, stock.
LIABILITIES: mortgage, loan.
SOURCES OF INCOME: salaries.

Karl Nurse, 46 President of Bay Tech Label, a printing company in St. Petersburg. The former city Planning Commission chairman and current member is making his first run for the city's top job -- he ran an unsuccessful bid for City Council in 1993 against David Welch. Nurse serves on the city's Housing Roundtable and is a member of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. Born in Toronto, Nurse attended elementary, middle and high school in Clearwater. He later graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College and the University of South Florida. In the mid-1970s, Nurse served as an aide to Democratic state Rep. Tom R. Moore, and in the late '70s, he was an aide to state Sen. Don Chamberlin. Nurse, who is married and has four grown children, says he has worked to "turn around" the Old Southeast neighborhood where he has lived for the past 10 years, renovating six houses there and serving as president and board member of the neighborhood association.
ASSETS: Commercial building, home, lake house, printing company, 401(k) and IRA.
LIABILITIES: Commercial building loan, mortgages, loan.
SOURCES OF INCOME: Bay Tech Label

Larry Williams, 56 Has lived in St. Petersburg since 1964 and owns a diagnostic imaging company, Diagnostic Outpatient Centers. He was first elected to the City Council in 1995 to represent District 5. He is in the midst of his second term and has served as council chairman for the past year. Williams was born in Illinois, went to high school in Leesburg and became a radiological technologist after attending Mound Park Hospital School of Radiologic Technology (part of what is now Bayfront Medical Center) from 1964 to 1966. He was supervisor of outpatient and radiology procedures at Mound Park Hospital for four years before going first to the Apollo Medical Center (now Vencor Hospital) and then to Edward H. White Hospital to serve as director of radiology. Williams has twice chaired the Lakewood High School Parents Advisory Committee, spent eight years on the Bi-Racial Advisory Committee for Pinellas County Schools and is past president of the Pinellas Point Civic Association. He has served on the Community Alliance and the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce's baseball committee. He lobbied in the early '90s to change the mayor's office from a largely ceremonial post to a position with real power. He and his wife, Pam, have five children, aged 20 to 32. He has been extremely active in youth sports, coaching at Lakewood High School and for Little League baseball and youth soccer.
ASSETS: business, two houses, stock, antique automobile.
LIABILITIES: loans and credit cards, car loan.
SOURCE OF INCOME: diagnostic imaging business.

Omali Yeshitela, 59 Owns a consulting practice, W & Associates, based in St. Petersburg, from which he conducts speaking tours, works on issue campaigns and helps to start non-profit organizations. Yeshitela participated in the civil rights movement as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was sentenced to prison in 1966 for tearing down a mural in St. Petersburg City Hall that he considered racially offensive. After he served about 2 1/2 years in jail and prison, he was released but remained ineligible to vote until the governor and three members of Florida's Cabinet restored his rights last year. Yeshitela is chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and founder of the National People's Democratic Uhuru movement. He has chaired the political action committee of the Coalition of African American Leadership and served on the board of radio station WMNF. He also served on Mayor David Fischer's Challenge 2001 Steering Committee and on the St. Petersburg Housing Authority's Hope VI Advisory Committee. Yeshitela attended Gibbs High School and received his high school equivalency diploma. He later attended Gibbs Junior College and St. Petersburg Junior College. Yeshitela is married and has seven children.
ASSETS: consulting practice, home, bank accounts.
LIABILITIES: mortgage, loan.
SOURCES OF INCOME: consulting practice.

Maria Scruggs-Weston, 43 Has been community partnership coordinator at St. Anthony's Hospital for the past 11 months. A St. Petersburg native, Weston graduated from Northeast High School and Florida State University with a bachelor's degree in criminology in 1979. She has worked as an investigator for the State Attorney's Office in Orlando, a beverage agent for the Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a narcotics and racketeering agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. She also worked as a community planner for the Juvenile Welfare Board and director of resident services at the St. Petersburg Housing Authority. Weston is on the Boys & Girls Club Advisory Board, the National Council of Negro Women, the South County Advisory Council for Pinellas schools and the Coalition of African-American Leadership. In 1993, she coordinated Operation Block Vote, an effort to get the black vote out. Weston, a resident of the 13th Street Heights neighborhood, was the first black to be elected homecoming queen in Pinellas County at an integrated school -- Northeast High School -- in 1975. She is divorced and has a 12-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old stepdaughter.
ASSETS: none.
LIABILITIES: loan.
SOURCE OF INCOME: St. Anthony's Hospital job.

Mayor
Candidate, Age	Biography at a glance
Patrick Bailey, 41		Owner of a Clex Collections, a bill collection agency in St. Petersburg. The city native is making his first try for public office. Bailey declined to answer questions about his educational background, saying it "is not a fair question." He has not been a member of any civic, fraternal or professional groups or previously worked on political campaigns. He says that his main qualification for the job is that his "heart is in St. Pete," and that electing him will place government in the people's hands. Bailey is married and has four children. ASSETS: Collections business, lawn care business, stock. LIABILITIES: loans. SOURCES OF INCOME: businesses.
Ronnie Beck, 46		Owner of Sunwest Space Systems Inc., a 21-year-old company that makes shop drawings for steel fabricators. He was born at MacDill Air Force Base and went to Robinson High School in Tampa. He earned an associate's degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1979. He started attending the University of South Florida in 1980, earning his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1990. Before he opened his own business, Beck drafted steel shop drawings and sold telescopes. Beck has served as president of the Riviera Bay Neighborhood Association and as president of the USF Pinellas County Alumni Association, and he is a member of the St. Petersburg Area Black Chamber of Commerce. He has served on the city's Board of Adjustment since 1997, when he ran an unsuccessful campaign to serve District 2 on the City Council. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Astronomy Club, the Southeast Planetarium Association and the National Parks Association, among other groups. He also has provided space slide presentations to elementary and middle school students during the past two decades. He has been married since 1974 and has no children. ASSETS: home, cars, stock, bonds, IRA. LIABILITIES: loans. SOURCE OF INCOME: his company.
Rick Baker, 44		President and part owner of the Fisher and Sauls law firm in St. Petersburg. Baker is making his first run for office after advising Mayor David Fischer on all three of Fischer's mayoral campaigns. Baker, a Chicago native, earned his bachelor's degree in management, his master's degree in business administration and his law degree from Florida State University after graduating from Brandon High School. Baker's civic activities include founding the Council of Neighborhood Associations' Neighborhood Leadership Program, serving as president of the Suncoast Children's Dream Fund and founding and leading the YMCA Neighbor-to-Neighbor Program that provides Christmas trees, dinners and toys to needy families. Baker was local chair of Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign, is chairman of the board of Florida International Museum and formerly served as chairman of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. Baker recently wrote a book chronicling the history of St. Petersburg called Mangroves to Major League. He is married and has two children. ASSETS: mutual funds, savings accounts, home, law firm stock. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCES OF INCOME: legal salary, publishing company, investment portfolio, bank interest.
Kathleen Ford, 43		An attorney and City Council member who moved to St. Petersburg in 1987. Ford was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Yorktown, Va., the oldest of six children. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1979 from the University of Virginia, where she was co-captain of the women's track team. After working in pediatric intensive care units in Houston, she went to the South Texas College of Law and earned a law degree in 1985. She met her husband, St. Petersburg native Harvey A. Ford, in Houston. The couple moved to St. Petersburg and she worked as a personal injury consultant reviewing medical records for five years. In 1992, she started working as a trial lawyer part time, but she has put that on hold to serve on the City Council. Ford has served as president of the North Shore Neighborhood Association. She has been a Junior League of St. Petersburg board member, a Girl Scout leader and a Northeast Little League volunteer. She is married and has a 15-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter. ASSETS: house, IRA, stocks. LIABILITIES: loans. SOURCE OF INCOME: city council salary.
Louis Miceli, 38		Factory worker at Jabil Circuit in St. Petersburg who also has worked part-time doing maintenance work for the minor-league St. Petersburg Devil Rays. Originally from Passaic, N.J., Miceli graduated from Northeast High School in St. Petersburg. Miceli is making his first run for public office. He is married and has three children. ASSETS: home, stock. LIABILITIES: mortgage, loan. SOURCES OF INCOME: salaries.
Karl Nurse, 46		President of Bay Tech Label, a printing company in St. Petersburg. The former city Planning Commission chairman and current member is making his first run for the city's top job -- he ran an unsuccessful bid for City Council in 1993 against David Welch. Nurse serves on the city's Housing Roundtable and is a member of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. Born in Toronto, Nurse attended elementary, middle and high school in Clearwater. He later graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College and the University of South Florida. In the mid-1970s, Nurse served as an aide to Democratic state Rep. Tom R. Moore, and in the late '70s, he was an aide to state Sen. Don Chamberlin. Nurse, who is married and has four grown children, says he has worked to "turn around" the Old Southeast neighborhood where he has lived for the past 10 years, renovating six houses there and serving as president and board member of the neighborhood association. ASSETS: Commercial building, home, lake house, printing company, 401(k) and IRA. LIABILITIES: Commercial building loan, mortgages, loan. SOURCES OF INCOME: Bay Tech Label
Larry Williams, 56		Has lived in St. Petersburg since 1964 and owns a diagnostic imaging company, Diagnostic Outpatient Centers. He was first elected to the City Council in 1995 to represent District 5. He is in the midst of his second term and has served as council chairman for the past year. Williams was born in Illinois, went to high school in Leesburg and became a radiological technologist after attending Mound Park Hospital School of Radiologic Technology (part of what is now Bayfront Medical Center) from 1964 to 1966. He was supervisor of outpatient and radiology procedures at Mound Park Hospital for four years before going first to the Apollo Medical Center (now Vencor Hospital) and then to Edward H. White Hospital to serve as director of radiology. Williams has twice chaired the Lakewood High School Parents Advisory Committee, spent eight years on the Bi-Racial Advisory Committee for Pinellas County Schools and is past president of the Pinellas Point Civic Association. He has served on the Community Alliance and the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce's baseball committee. He lobbied in the early '90s to change the mayor's office from a largely ceremonial post to a position with real power. He and his wife, Pam, have five children, aged 20 to 32. He has been extremely active in youth sports, coaching at Lakewood High School and for Little League baseball and youth soccer. ASSETS: business, two houses, stock, antique automobile. LIABILITIES: loans and credit cards, car loan. SOURCE OF INCOME: diagnostic imaging business.
Omali Yeshitela, 59		Owns a consulting practice, W & Associates, based in St. Petersburg, from which he conducts speaking tours, works on issue campaigns and helps to start non-profit organizations. Yeshitela participated in the civil rights movement as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was sentenced to prison in 1966 for tearing down a mural in St. Petersburg City Hall that he considered racially offensive. After he served about 2 1/2 years in jail and prison, he was released but remained ineligible to vote until the governor and three members of Florida's Cabinet restored his rights last year. Yeshitela is chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and founder of the National People's Democratic Uhuru movement. He has chaired the political action committee of the Coalition of African American Leadership and served on the board of radio station WMNF. He also served on Mayor David Fischer's Challenge 2001 Steering Committee and on the St. Petersburg Housing Authority's Hope VI Advisory Committee. Yeshitela attended Gibbs High School and received his high school equivalency diploma. He later attended Gibbs Junior College and St. Petersburg Junior College. Yeshitela is married and has seven children. ASSETS: consulting practice, home, bank accounts. LIABILITIES: mortgage, loan. SOURCES OF INCOME: consulting practice.
Maria Scruggs-Weston, 43		Has been community partnership coordinator at St. Anthony's Hospital for the past 11 months. A St. Petersburg native, Weston graduated from Northeast High School and Florida State University with a bachelor's degree in criminology in 1979. She has worked as an investigator for the State Attorney's Office in Orlando, a beverage agent for the Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a narcotics and racketeering agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. She also worked as a community planner for the Juvenile Welfare Board and director of resident services at the St. Petersburg Housing Authority. Weston is on the Boys & Girls Club Advisory Board, the National Council of Negro Women, the South County Advisory Council for Pinellas schools and the Coalition of African-American Leadership. In 1993, she coordinated Operation Block Vote, an effort to get the black vote out. Weston, a resident of the 13th Street Heights neighborhood, was the first black to be elected homecoming queen in Pinellas County at an integrated school -- Northeast High School -- in 1975. She is divorced and has a 12-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old stepdaughter. ASSETS: none. LIABILITIES: loan. SOURCE OF INCOME: St. Anthony's Hospital job.

City Council

District 1

Dennis A. Homol Sr., 37 City wastewater plant mechanic

Richard D. Kriseman, 38 Lawyer

District 2

John Bryan, 50 Retired home builder and commercial property manager. Bryan was born in St. Petersburg and attended schools here, including St. Petersburg Junior College. He served on the Environmental Development Commission for 11 years, including three as chairman. Vice chairman of the city's budget review committee in 1984-85, Bryan also has served on the Pinellas County construction licensing board and the Southern Growth Policies Board. He chaired the Northeast Exchange Club committee to help develop Coffee Pot Park in northeast St. Petersburg, was a member of the Suncoasters and is a volunteer mentor in the county school system. Bryan is married and has three children from a previous marriage, two of whom are adults.
ASSETS: property in St. Petersburg, Hernando.
LIABILITIES: none.
SOURCE OF INCOME: commercial rental property.

Bill Griswold, 72 Retired from the Air Force in 1967. He represented District 2 on the City Council from 1985 to 1993, stepping down because of term limits. His wife, Bea Griswold, then won the seat, which she has held until now and is vacating because of term limits. Griswold is a native of New York and attended schools in Vermont. He graduated from leadership, management and officer candidate schools while in the Air Force. He is a member of the American Legion and the Meadowlawn Civic Association. Griswold has been involved in Suncoast Tiger Bay and the St. Petersburg Historical Society, and has served on the Pinellas Planning Commission, the Florida Suncoast League of Cities, the city waterfront committee and advisory boards of the University of South Florida and Bayfront Medical Center. Griswold has four adult children.
ASSETS: none.
LIABILITIES: none.
SOURCE OF INCOME: Air Force retirement pay, Social Security.

Craig Patrick, 28 Public relations director for Hydrogen Media, an Internet business solutions company. A native of Alabama, he is a graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile. He has been a television news anchor and reporter for WTSP-Ch. 10 and stations in Savannah, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala. A three-year resident of St. Petersburg, Patrick is making his first bid for public office. Patrick works with the Tampa Bay Partnership on its transportation and international councils. He is a member of the Riviera Bay Civic Association, the Friends of Weedon Island and serves as an adviser or board member for several non-profit organizations, including the Juvenile Welfare Board, the Suncoast Boys and Girls Club and the South Pinellas Red Cross. He and his fiancee Susanna Alderson plan an April wedding.
ASSETS: residence.
LIABILITIES: mortgage.
SOURCE OF INCOME: Hydrogen Media.
WEB SITE: http://www.craigpatrick.com.

District 4

Chris Eaton, 43 Owner and president of Bridge Builders Inc., a consulting company specializing in humanitarian work in developing countries. He is a commissioner on the Pinellas Wages Coalition Hardship Review Board and was co-founder and executive director of Single Purpose Ministries, an interdenominational organization for single adults in the Tampa Bay area. Eaton is chairman of the Planning Team for the National Short-Term Missions Conference and has served on the board of directors of the National Association of Single Adult Leaders. He is co-author of Vacations With A Purpose; A Planning Handbook for Your Short-Term Missions Team. Born in Montclair, N.J., he moved to St. Petersburg in 1974. He is a graduate of Lakewood High School and has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of South Florida. He is single.
ASSETS: home, office, checking account, mutual funds, money market, stocks.
LIABILITIES: first and second mortgages on business property, first and second mortgages on home, car loan.
SOURCE OF INCOME: Bridge Builders Inc.
WEB SITE: http://www.chriseatoncampaign.com.

Douglas Neil Every, 31 Money management officer at MacDill Federal Credit Union. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg. He received an associate arts degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1997. He served in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division for four years. He has been a block captain for his neighborhood crime watch. Since 1991, he has been married to Elisabeth J. Every, who is employed by Target. The couple have no children.
ASSETS: house.
LIABILITIES: mortgage.
SOURCE OF INCOME: MacDill Federal Credit Union.

Patricia Fulton, 60 Contract technical writer for Nielsen Media Research. A native of St. Petersburg, she attended local schools through St. Petersburg Junior College, received her bachelor's degree from Rollins College and a doctorate degree in English from Auburn University. She has been a high school and college instructor, writer and editor for trade publications and has hosted a radio talk show. This is her third run for political office; she was a candidate for mayor in 1993 and for the District 4 City Council seat in 1997. Fulton founded the downtown Core Group and is its president. She was recently elected president of Suncoast Tiger Bay Club. She is a former officer with the Council of Neighborhood Associations. Divorced since 1977, Fulton has two adult daughters. A third daughter died in 1990.
ASSETS: none.
LIABILITIES: none.
SOURCE OF INCOME: technical writing.

Virginia Littrell, 50 Executive director of the Florida Consumer Action Network. She has worked as an independent consultant for the city of St. Petersburg's millennium celebration, served as development officer for the Museum of Fine Arts and was director of the St. Petersburg Arts Center. Littrell is chairwoman of both the city's Planning Commission and Historic Preservation Commission and a member of the State of Florida's Historic Preservation Advisory Council and the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation. She also sits on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program and the steering committee for the 22nd Street Redevelopment Corporation's Main Street application. She has served as president of the Junior League of St. Petersburg and on the board of directors of the Pinellas County Education Foundation. Littrell also has been a member of the St. Petersburg Historical Museum's board of directors. Born in St. Petersburg, she graduated from Lakewood High School and the University of South Florida, from which she received a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary social sciences. She is divorced and has no children.
ASSETS: home, checking accounts, car.
LIABILITIES: none.
SOURCE OF INCOME: Florida Consumer Action Network.

District 5

James Bennett, 48 Owner of yard maintenance business

Robert Eschenfelder, 33 Attorney

Jim Gary, 42 Owner of a computer networking business

District 6

Abdul Karim Ali, 53 Has worked for 25 years for Dayton Rogers of Florida, a company on 30th Avenue N that ships metal stamps. He is a shipping clerk. Prior to that, he worked as a laborer in construction. He is originally from Cordele, Ga., but moved to St. Petersburg in 1968. That same summer, his father, a sanitation worker named Joe Savage, led St. Petersburg's garbage strike to improve pay and working conditions for the city's garbage haulers. Since the early 1970s, Ali, a member of the Muslim American Society of Tampa Bay, has worked on various community groups, including the St. Petersburg Housing Task Force, the Community Alliance and the Chamber of Commerce's baseball subcommittee. He is a founding member of the St. Petersburg Employment and Economic Development Corp., served as chair of the Planning Commission in 1988 and 1989 and as president of the Highland Oaks Neighborhood Association. In 1989, he ran for a seat on City Council but lost. He is married and lives in the Lakewood neighborhood.
ASSETS: 1981 Toyota, home, rental property, life insurance.
LIABILITIES: mortgage, credit cards, loan, car.
SOURCE OF INCOME: shipping clerk salary, rental property.

Ezell Boykins Jr., 51 Works as a printing press operator for Business Cards Express of Clearwater. He was born in St. Petersburg, went to Dixie Hollins High School and moved to Washington, D.C., when he was 18. There, he worked as a press operator for consultant Booz-Allen & Hamilton and insurer Equitable Life Insurance. He returned to St. Petersburg 13 years later and opened up his own printing business. The business folded within three years and Boykins declared bankruptcy. He has since worked for several companies in the Tampa Bay area, including Fotomat Corp. and Mega Direct. He has been employed at Business Cards Express for the past three years. Since returning to St. Petersburg, Boykins has been active in youth sports and the Pinellas Youth Football Conference. He served eight years as the organization's vice president and nine years as its president. He served on the mayor's task force that helped produce the 31st Street Sports Complex. Boykins is divorced and has seven children, ranging in ages from 11 to 33.
ASSETS: jewelry, computer, television, VCR, clothing, cell phone.
LIABILITIES: credit card debt.
SOURCE OF INCOME: printing press operator salary.

Chrisshun Cox, 35 Has worked as a property tax researcher for First American Real Estate Tax Service since last October. She was born in St. Petersburg and graduated from Pinellas Technical Education Center with certificates as a health unit coordinator and accounting clerk. Between 1990 and 1996, she worked as an orthopaedic secretary at St. Anthony's Hospital and from 1996 to 2000, she was a neonatal secretary at All Children's Hospital. For the past six years, Cox has been president of the Melrose Mercy/Pine Acres Neighborhood Association. She has been active in the St. Petersburg Housing Authority, the city's Housing Roundtable and the Governor's Front Porch program. She is unmarried and has four children, including an 8-year-old nephew in her custody.
ASSETS: home, Social Security disability for her son.
LIABILITIES: mortgage.
SOURCE OF INCOME: property tax researcher salary.

Dwight Chimurenga Waller, 49 Lab technician for R.P. Scherer North America, which sells soft gel capsules. He has also worked as a lab technician for Tampa Bay Snack Foods and Pet Dairy. He graduated from Gibbs High School in 1969 and has an associate's degree from St. Petersburg Junior College. Waller is active with the African People's Socialist Party and is now national president of the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, a black socialist group. He is also a member of St. Petersburg's Citizen Review Committee. He is twice divorced and now married with four children ranging in age from 20 to 29.
ASSETS: two houses, car.
LIABILITIES: mortgage.
SOURCE OF INCOME: lab technician salary.

Earnest Williams, 54 Owns Earnest Williams State Farm Insurance Agency. He was born and raised in Marianna, moving to St. Petersburg 29 years ago. He worked for the city of St. Petersburg for 11 years as an assistant parks director and criminal justice planner. The Lakewood Estates resident is chairman of the Regional Workforce Development Board and a member of the Pinellas School Readiness Coalition and the School Biracial Committee. He has served on the city's Nuisance Abatement Board, the School Controlled Choice Task Force, the Community Alliance and the Neighborhood Housing Services board. He is married and has two grown children.
ASSETS: office building, home, stocks.
LIABILITIES: three loans.
SOURCE OF INCOME: insurance agency salary.

District 1
Dennis A. Homol Sr., 37		City wastewater plant mechanic
Richard D. Kriseman, 38		Lawyer
District 2
John Bryan, 50		Retired home builder and commercial property manager. Bryan was born in St. Petersburg and attended schools here, including St. Petersburg Junior College. He served on the Environmental Development Commission for 11 years, including three as chairman. Vice chairman of the city's budget review committee in 1984-85, Bryan also has served on the Pinellas County construction licensing board and the Southern Growth Policies Board. He chaired the Northeast Exchange Club committee to help develop Coffee Pot Park in northeast St. Petersburg, was a member of the Suncoasters and is a volunteer mentor in the county school system. Bryan is married and has three children from a previous marriage, two of whom are adults. ASSETS: property in St. Petersburg, Hernando. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCE OF INCOME: commercial rental property.
Bill Griswold, 72		Retired from the Air Force in 1967. He represented District 2 on the City Council from 1985 to 1993, stepping down because of term limits. His wife, Bea Griswold, then won the seat, which she has held until now and is vacating because of term limits. Griswold is a native of New York and attended schools in Vermont. He graduated from leadership, management and officer candidate schools while in the Air Force. He is a member of the American Legion and the Meadowlawn Civic Association. Griswold has been involved in Suncoast Tiger Bay and the St. Petersburg Historical Society, and has served on the Pinellas Planning Commission, the Florida Suncoast League of Cities, the city waterfront committee and advisory boards of the University of South Florida and Bayfront Medical Center. Griswold has four adult children. ASSETS: none. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCE OF INCOME: Air Force retirement pay, Social Security.
Craig Patrick, 28		Public relations director for Hydrogen Media, an Internet business solutions company. A native of Alabama, he is a graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile. He has been a television news anchor and reporter for WTSP-Ch. 10 and stations in Savannah, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala. A three-year resident of St. Petersburg, Patrick is making his first bid for public office. Patrick works with the Tampa Bay Partnership on its transportation and international councils. He is a member of the Riviera Bay Civic Association, the Friends of Weedon Island and serves as an adviser or board member for several non-profit organizations, including the Juvenile Welfare Board, the Suncoast Boys and Girls Club and the South Pinellas Red Cross. He and his fiancee Susanna Alderson plan an April wedding. ASSETS: residence. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: Hydrogen Media. WEB SITE: http://www.craigpatrick.com.
District 4
Chris Eaton, 43		Owner and president of Bridge Builders Inc., a consulting company specializing in humanitarian work in developing countries. He is a commissioner on the Pinellas Wages Coalition Hardship Review Board and was co-founder and executive director of Single Purpose Ministries, an interdenominational organization for single adults in the Tampa Bay area. Eaton is chairman of the Planning Team for the National Short-Term Missions Conference and has served on the board of directors of the National Association of Single Adult Leaders. He is co-author of Vacations With A Purpose; A Planning Handbook for Your Short-Term Missions Team. Born in Montclair, N.J., he moved to St. Petersburg in 1974. He is a graduate of Lakewood High School and has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of South Florida. He is single. ASSETS: home, office, checking account, mutual funds, money market, stocks. LIABILITIES: first and second mortgages on business property, first and second mortgages on home, car loan. SOURCE OF INCOME: Bridge Builders Inc. WEB SITE: http://www.chriseatoncampaign.com.
Douglas Neil Every, 31		Money management officer at MacDill Federal Credit Union. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg. He received an associate arts degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1997. He served in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division for four years. He has been a block captain for his neighborhood crime watch. Since 1991, he has been married to Elisabeth J. Every, who is employed by Target. The couple have no children. ASSETS: house. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: MacDill Federal Credit Union.
Patricia Fulton, 60		Contract technical writer for Nielsen Media Research. A native of St. Petersburg, she attended local schools through St. Petersburg Junior College, received her bachelor's degree from Rollins College and a doctorate degree in English from Auburn University. She has been a high school and college instructor, writer and editor for trade publications and has hosted a radio talk show. This is her third run for political office; she was a candidate for mayor in 1993 and for the District 4 City Council seat in 1997. Fulton founded the downtown Core Group and is its president. She was recently elected president of Suncoast Tiger Bay Club. She is a former officer with the Council of Neighborhood Associations. Divorced since 1977, Fulton has two adult daughters. A third daughter died in 1990. ASSETS: none. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCE OF INCOME: technical writing.
Virginia Littrell, 50		Executive director of the Florida Consumer Action Network. She has worked as an independent consultant for the city of St. Petersburg's millennium celebration, served as development officer for the Museum of Fine Arts and was director of the St. Petersburg Arts Center. Littrell is chairwoman of both the city's Planning Commission and Historic Preservation Commission and a member of the State of Florida's Historic Preservation Advisory Council and the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation. She also sits on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program and the steering committee for the 22nd Street Redevelopment Corporation's Main Street application. She has served as president of the Junior League of St. Petersburg and on the board of directors of the Pinellas County Education Foundation. Littrell also has been a member of the St. Petersburg Historical Museum's board of directors. Born in St. Petersburg, she graduated from Lakewood High School and the University of South Florida, from which she received a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary social sciences. She is divorced and has no children. ASSETS: home, checking accounts, car. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCE OF INCOME: Florida Consumer Action Network.
District 5
James Bennett, 48		Owner of yard maintenance business
Robert Eschenfelder, 33		Attorney
Jim Gary, 42		Owner of a computer networking business
District 6
Abdul Karim Ali, 53		Has worked for 25 years for Dayton Rogers of Florida, a company on 30th Avenue N that ships metal stamps. He is a shipping clerk. Prior to that, he worked as a laborer in construction. He is originally from Cordele, Ga., but moved to St. Petersburg in 1968. That same summer, his father, a sanitation worker named Joe Savage, led St. Petersburg's garbage strike to improve pay and working conditions for the city's garbage haulers. Since the early 1970s, Ali, a member of the Muslim American Society of Tampa Bay, has worked on various community groups, including the St. Petersburg Housing Task Force, the Community Alliance and the Chamber of Commerce's baseball subcommittee. He is a founding member of the St. Petersburg Employment and Economic Development Corp., served as chair of the Planning Commission in 1988 and 1989 and as president of the Highland Oaks Neighborhood Association. In 1989, he ran for a seat on City Council but lost. He is married and lives in the Lakewood neighborhood. ASSETS: 1981 Toyota, home, rental property, life insurance. LIABILITIES: mortgage, credit cards, loan, car. SOURCE OF INCOME: shipping clerk salary, rental property.
Ezell Boykins Jr., 51		Works as a printing press operator for Business Cards Express of Clearwater. He was born in St. Petersburg, went to Dixie Hollins High School and moved to Washington, D.C., when he was 18. There, he worked as a press operator for consultant Booz-Allen & Hamilton and insurer Equitable Life Insurance. He returned to St. Petersburg 13 years later and opened up his own printing business. The business folded within three years and Boykins declared bankruptcy. He has since worked for several companies in the Tampa Bay area, including Fotomat Corp. and Mega Direct. He has been employed at Business Cards Express for the past three years. Since returning to St. Petersburg, Boykins has been active in youth sports and the Pinellas Youth Football Conference. He served eight years as the organization's vice president and nine years as its president. He served on the mayor's task force that helped produce the 31st Street Sports Complex. Boykins is divorced and has seven children, ranging in ages from 11 to 33. ASSETS: jewelry, computer, television, VCR, clothing, cell phone. LIABILITIES: credit card debt. SOURCE OF INCOME: printing press operator salary.
Chrisshun Cox, 35		Has worked as a property tax researcher for First American Real Estate Tax Service since last October. She was born in St. Petersburg and graduated from Pinellas Technical Education Center with certificates as a health unit coordinator and accounting clerk. Between 1990 and 1996, she worked as an orthopaedic secretary at St. Anthony's Hospital and from 1996 to 2000, she was a neonatal secretary at All Children's Hospital. For the past six years, Cox has been president of the Melrose Mercy/Pine Acres Neighborhood Association. She has been active in the St. Petersburg Housing Authority, the city's Housing Roundtable and the Governor's Front Porch program. She is unmarried and has four children, including an 8-year-old nephew in her custody. ASSETS: home, Social Security disability for her son. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: property tax researcher salary.
Dwight Chimurenga Waller, 49		Lab technician for R.P. Scherer North America, which sells soft gel capsules. He has also worked as a lab technician for Tampa Bay Snack Foods and Pet Dairy. He graduated from Gibbs High School in 1969 and has an associate's degree from St. Petersburg Junior College. Waller is active with the African People's Socialist Party and is now national president of the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, a black socialist group. He is also a member of St. Petersburg's Citizen Review Committee. He is twice divorced and now married with four children ranging in age from 20 to 29. ASSETS: two houses, car. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: lab technician salary.
Earnest Williams, 54		Owns Earnest Williams State Farm Insurance Agency. He was born and raised in Marianna, moving to St. Petersburg 29 years ago. He worked for the city of St. Petersburg for 11 years as an assistant parks director and criminal justice planner. The Lakewood Estates resident is chairman of the Regional Workforce Development Board and a member of the Pinellas School Readiness Coalition and the School Biracial Committee. He has served on the city's Nuisance Abatement Board, the School Controlled Choice Task Force, the Community Alliance and the Neighborhood Housing Services board. He is married and has two grown children. ASSETS: office building, home, stocks. LIABILITIES: three loans. SOURCE OF INCOME: insurance agency salary.