Campaign Fundraising Questions Dog Hillsborough County, Florida’s Democrat Elections Supervisor



Craig Latimer denied asking co-workers for campaign donations last year when he was running to be Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections while serving as that office’s chief of staff.  


 


“I’ve certainly never solicited any contributions from any employees in here,” Latimer said then.


 


But the Tampa Bay Times has documents from Latimer’s campaign that say otherwise:


 


In one, Latimer’s campaign coordinator — also a manager in the office — encourages a half dozen campaign volunteers from the agency’s top staff to donate the $500 maximum contribution. Latimer followed up that memo with an email encouraging the same employees to hit up 10 friends for campaign money.


 


“To date no one has supplied any names and addresses,” Latimer, a Democrat, writes in the October 2011 email, the sentence underlined, the letters in bold. “It is important that we raise money to get our message out … You are not going to offend your friends, just encourage them to donate to your future.”