Mike La Rosa wins re-election in HD 42

Mike La Rosa

Republican state Rep. Mike La Rosa rode to an easy victory Tuesday night in Florida House District 42.

La Rosa pulled off a 54 percent to 46 percent win over Democrat Barbara Cady in a district that has trended Democrat to the point where La Rosa swam against a six-point Democratic advantage in voter registration.

The district is similar in many ways to House District 30, where La Rosa’s Republican colleague state Rep. Bob Cortes went down hard Tuesday night.

But La Rosa, the three-term representative from Saint Cloud ran on a campaign that he was had been delivering for the district, watching out for the critical tourism industry as a powerful chairman of the House Gaming Control and Tourism Subcommittee, and was a steady figure in a rapidly changing Osceola County, while Cady ran largely on homeowners’ association rights.

Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].



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