I-Drive Chamber endorses Jerry Demings in Orange County mayor’s race

Jerry Demings

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings has received the endorsement of the International Drive Resort Area Chamber of Commerce for his quest to become county mayor.

The chamber’s board of directors said it gave its endorsement to Demings after interviewing all the potential candidates, which include Winter Park businessman Rob Panepinto and Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke.

“The International Drive Resort Area Chamber of Commerce … believes that Jerry Demings possesses the experience, vision and leadership that it will take to move Orange County forward and make Orange County a great Place to work and play,” I-Drive Chamber President Maria Triscari stated in a news release issued by Demings’ campaign on Thursday.

“We encourage all our members to vote for Jerry Demings for the next mayor of Orange County,” she added.

Demings, Panepinto, Clarke and two other candidates are running in the non-partisan election to succeed Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, who is leaving due to term limits.

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 Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused.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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