Election 2020: Safety Harbor Voters To Choose Mayor, Commissioner

SAFETY HARBOR, FL — Safety Harbor voters will head to the polls Tuesday to choose a mayor and Seat 4 city commissioner.

Incumbent Mayor Joe Ayoub is being challenged by Tanja Vidovic, and incumbent Carlos Diaz has two challengers for Seat 4 on the commission — John Patrick Estok and David Roth.

A resident of Safety Harbor since 1990, Ayoub served as mayor from January 2013 to April 2014 and was re-elected in March 2017. He's also served on the Pinellas Planning Council, Pinellas School Transportation Safety Committee, Safety Harbor Middle School Advisory Council, as vice president of the Budget Advisory Committee for Safety Harbor, a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority board member and as chairman of the board of PSTA Board member of Plato Academy Charter School.

A certified public accountant and chief financial officer of Data Blue, he holds a master's degree in accounting.

His opponent, Tanya Vidovic, is a mother of three, a community activist and an artist.

Vidovic is best known for suing the City of Tampa and Tampa Fire Rescue in federal court for discrimination after she was fired in 2016.

Last year, Vidovic returned to her Tampa fire station after a jury agreed that the city discriminated against her because she was pregnant and then retaliated against her when she complained. A judge ordered her to be reinstated and for the city to pay her $245,000 in damages.

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