Tony Daniel, of Tampa, holds a sign along E Jackson Street at N Florida Tuesday in Tampa last year. He also drives a truck and trailer with large, neatly printed signs that feature a Confederate flag, a Nazi flag, Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s portrait, a black and white photo of three men lynched by hanging, references to Home Depot and no less than four uses of a the word TAMPA —Tony Daniel has a long, unhappy history at City Hall. Dating back to the mid 1990s, Daniel, 60, has regularly used his three minutes of public comment at council meetings to hurl profane and racially provocative invective at council members. Once he chained himself to his seat during a council meeting. He’s been removed and arrested multiple times for his behavior during public comment. More recently, Daniel made news for driving his pickup truck though the city with a large sign described in a Tampa Bay Times story last year as emblazoned with a "Confederate flag, a Nazi flag, a photo of a lynching, Mayor Bo...
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