ELECTED OFFICIALS, MINISTERS MEET WITH MAYOR ANDREW GILLUM

            The Black Elected officials in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties including Black Ministers came together on Saturday, October 27th at Allen Temple AME Church to meet with Mayor Andrew Gillum. All participants came together to support and endorse his candidacy as the first African American Democratic nominee for Governor in the State of Florida. “We are hopeful that the voters in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties come out in mass numbers on or before November 6th to support Mayor Gillum,” stated Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick.

            Front row, left to right:Rev. W. D. Sims (St. Matthew M. B. Church), Bishop Thomas Scott (34th Street Church of God), Renee Flowers (Pinellas County School Board), Representative-Elect Dianne Hart (District 61), Rev. Dr. Glenn Dames (Allen Temple AME Church), Mayor Andrew Gillum, Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick (District 5), Tamara Shamburger (Hillsborough County School Board), Mary Thomas Mathis (Plant City Commissioner).

            Back row, left to right: Ken Welch (Pinellas County Commission, Chairman), Senator Darryl Rouson (District 19), Rev. Dr.  W. James Favorite (Beulah Institutional Baptist Church), Henry “Shake” Washington, Rev. Gregory V. Gay (Mount Olive AME Church), and Representative Wengay “Newt” Newton (District 70). (Photograph by BRUNSON)