In the third installment of our Candidate Spotlight series, let’s focus on the city level. Many of you know of the trials we have gone through with the City Commission tax increases. There are not enough common sense people on the commission who represent all of Tallahassee. But there is someone who wants to see that change and is our focus here. Meet Gloria Pugh.

Gloria Pugh is “not your typical wanna-be politician.” Pugh is a successful businesswoman, the CEO and Co-Owner of AMWAT Moving Warehouse and Storage with her husband Dean. Now, she is throwing her hat in the political ring, running for Tallahassee City Commission, Seat 1. Pugh comments “As a resident of Tallahassee since 1988 and an employer since 1997, my personal and professional commitments have always been to improve economic vitality, culture and arts, human services, and public safety.” Pugh wants to give back to a community that has given her so much.

Pugh is a proven leader. Not only does she run a successful business, she serves on the Community Leadership Council on Gun Violence, the Florida Consumer Council, the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, and is an investor partner in the economic development council of Tallahassee-Leon County. Pugh wants to focus also on public safety, saying that if don’t address the problems of public safety, it could jeopardize all the progress the city has made economically.

We need a fresh voice with a new set of ideas on the Tallahassee City Commission. Gloria Pugh would be a great asset to that commission and to the citizens of the City of Tallahassee. Visit her facebook page here and also her website, gloriapugh.com.