NEPHEW-AUNT BATTLE ROUND 2 WON'T HAPPEN

In this morning's Tampa Tribune columnist Ernest Hooper writes that a potential second showdown between Tampa City Councilman Kevin White and his aunt, Bernadine White-King, won't happen this year.

Ms. White-King, who runs Hillsborough County's Summer Food Programme, is ineligible to run under the federal Hatch Act. The law prohibits employees of federal, state, or local agencies which administers programmes financed by federal grants to run for public office in partisan elections.

The two had campaigned against each other in 2003 for the nonpartisan City Council position that the nephew won by a seven percent margin.

As Mr. Hooper wrote:

The race made for an interesting family feud with White-King, daughter of the late African-American civil rights activist Moses White, challenging Kevin White, Moses' grandson.

Kevin White was born out of wedlock to Gerald Lamar White, Bernadine's brother, and grew up only loosely associated with the influential family. Kevin's father and the rest of the extended White family supported White-King.

Your daddy doesn't support you, and you still win?!? Would love to see some of their family reunions.