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Whitehead lost his bid for re-election in the Republican primary election held on [[August 26]], [[2008]].
On January 27, 2012, it was announced by the [[Pensacola News Journal]] that Mike Whitehead , Republican, had prefiled to run for [[Escambia County Tax Collector]] in the 2012 General Election. He would be running against incumbent [[Janet Holley]], who has been the Tax Collector since 1998.The incumbent, Holley, a Democrat, has been criticized for retiring on the job and subsequently "double dipping" at the rate of $220,000 per year. The practice of double dipping is regarded as an abuse of the system and was subsequently banned by the Florida Legislature.
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