June 11th Luncheon: Jeremy Wallace – “Looking into the political crystal ball: What lies ahead in 2012”

Every Monday, Sarasota Democrats turn to Jeremy Wallace’s column in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune to read his latest coverage of local politics. We welcome him to our June 11th luncheon to hear him speak about how the landscape of Sarasota County politics has changed since 2006, what that means for the 2012 elections, where the best chances are for Democrats to pick up seats in the US Congress and the Florida legislature, and what redistricting may look like for our region. Wallace has been the Herald-Tribune Media Group’s political writer and columnist for the last seven years. He writes about national politics, covers the Florida statehouse and reports regularly on local government. He has also become a regular guest on Florida This Week with Rob Lorei, a public affairs program on Tampa’s PBS station WEDU. His 20-year career in journalism has included running a statehouse bureau in Tallahassee, covering the White House for the Boston Globe and filing front page news stories for more than 30 of the biggest newspapers in the country while working in Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau. In that span, he’s rubbed elbows with each of the last five U.S. Presidents and covered, among others, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John Ashcroft, Colin Powell and, of course, Katherine Harris. Prior to coming to the Herald-Tribune, Wallace was a political writer in New York for five years where he covered Hillary Clinton’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate. Wallace is originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, but grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He earned his journalism degree from the University of Missouri. You won’t want to miss hearing Wallace’s perspective on Sarasota politics.

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