Business owner and veteran Tom Derzypolski is running for Tallahassee City Commission Seat 3, one of six candidates seeking the seat ahead of the August primary election.<\/p>\n
WFSU\u2019s Tristan Wood spoke with Derzypolski on Candidate Convos, a digital series of one-on-one interviews with local candidates in Tallahassee and Leon County ahead of the August primaries.<\/p>\n
You can watch Derzypolski\u2019s full appearance here:<\/p>\n
During the conversation, Derzypolski said political divisions among local leaders have made it more difficult to focus on collaboration and shared goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve tried to figure out, well, maybe this person started it. Well, maybe that person started it,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat you have is a perfect storm of people who have been offended one way or the other, and they cannot set that down and get back to work on behalf of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derzypolski said he believes he can work with other elected officials regardless of political differences and wants to bring a more collaborative approach to City Hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will absolutely work and collaborate with the other elected officials, with staff, and our county to get us back on track,\u201d he said. \u201cI know how to grow jobs, I know how to create environments where people feel like they can contribute and be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said Tallahassee should focus on expanding economic opportunities by using the city\u2019s research institutions to grow industries like medical technology and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve heard about all the assets available at the Mag Lab,\u201d Derzypolski said. \u201cWith the Academic Medical Center through FSU Health, this is a point for us to rally and push off of into the future, and tell the world that we are open for business for medical device research, pharmaceutical research with Florida A&M and FSU Health.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Seat 3 race also includes PJ Perez, Maxwell Herrle, Talethia Edwards, Norm Roche, and Darryl “Dar Wavemaker” Alfred. The primary election is scheduled for August 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business owner and veteran Tom Derzypolski is running for Tallahassee City Commission Seat 3, one of six candidates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-347339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}