{"id":72942,"date":"2018-10-30T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=72942"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:35:02","slug":"elected-officials-ministers-meet-with-mayor-andrew-gillum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=72942","title":{"rendered":"ELECTED OFFICIALS, MINISTERS MEET WITH MAYOR ANDREW GILLUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ELECTED OFFICIALS, MINISTERS MEET WITH MAYOR ANDREW GILLUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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. &#8220;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,&#8221; stated Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Front row, left to right:<\/strong><strong>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\u00a0Frank Reddick (District 5), Tamara Shamburger (Hillsborough County School Board), Mary Thomas Mathis (Plant City Commissioner).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Back row, left to right:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Ken Welch (Pinellas County Commission, Chairman), Senator Darryl Rouson (District 19),\u00a0Rev. Dr. \u00a0W. James Favorite (Beulah Institutional Baptist Church), Henry\u00a0&#8220;Shake&#8221; Washington, Rev. Gregory V. Gay (Mount Olive\u00a0AME Church), and Representative Wengay &#8220;Newt&#8221; Newton (District 70). (Photograph by BRUNSON)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELECTED OFFICIALS, MINISTERS MEET WITH MAYOR ANDREW GILLUM \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":72941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}