Mitch Perry
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), Florida Gulf Coast Chapter is endorsing Rebecca Smith for the House District 60 seat in Hillsborough County.
“Today, we are pleased to offer our endorsement of Rebecca Smith to become the District 60 Representative to the Florida State Legislature,” said Steve P. Cona III, president and CEO of the group. “Rebecca has been a long-standing business leader in the Tampa area for more than three decades. The success of her construction management company, A.D. Morgan Corporation, demonstrates her understanding of the importance of the construction industry in Florida and the jobs that are created by our industry.”
Smith is founder and president of A.D. Morgan Corp. in Tampa, which she founded in 1989. She’s also on the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority, and announced her candidacy two weeks ago.
“I am grateful for this endorsement from one our area’s most respected member organizations and look forward to representing the people residing in District 60 in the State Legislature in Tallahassee,” Smith said in a prepared statement.
House District 60 has been represented by Dana Young since 2010. Young is running for the newly created state Senate District 18.
House District 60 includes all of South Tampa, much of south Hillsborough County, and Town ‘n’ Country.
Smith is a Republican, the second to enter the contest. Engineer Jackie Toledo has also announced her candidacy for the seat. Toledo lost an extremely close race for the Tampa City Council a year ago.
No Democrat has yet entered the contest.
