Clerk's Office Candidate Says Campaign is Not a 'Vendetta'
Roberta Cutting says she wants to cut spending and give half the clerk's $140,000 salary 'back to the people.'
Roberta Cutting was burned by the Pasco County Clerk's Office in 2011, she says. So when she discovered last October that no one was running against Republican Paula O'Neil in the 2012 election, Cutting, 53, decided she would be the one to challenge her. O'Neil was elected in 2008, after serving as second-in-command since 2002. "How else do you hold a pubic official accountable with no one running against her," Cutting said. Cutting's beef with O' Neil started when she was interning at the clerk's office in 2011. Cutting said she was required to complete a 90-hour internship to fulfill requirements for a paralegal degree from Pasco-Hernando Community College. After putting in about 16 hours the first week in various departments, Cutting …
