Peter Schorsch
If the Florida Democratic Party did, in fact, try to convince former state Rep. Amanda Murphy to run for Senate District 16, they weren’t persuasive.
Multiple sources told us Thursday that Murphy will not run for the seat, formerly held by Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala, who resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal.
Currently, former state Rep. Ed Hooper is running for the Pinellas-based district against a long-shot Democratic opponent, Bernie Fensterwald, and fellow Republican Ilir Karruli.
Murphy, a New Port Richey Democrat and financial advisor, served three years in the House, first winning a special election to replace the outgoing Mike Fasano, a Republican, in House District 36.
Gov. Rick Scott appointed him to be the Pasco County Tax Collector.
Murphy lost the seat in 2016 to current officeholder Amber Mariano, the then-21-year-old daughter of Pasco County Commissioner Jack Mariano.
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DONNA L BRYAN
May 6, 2018 at 4:40 pm
Amber Mariano was 20 years old when she ran and should not have been allowed to run as the Florida Constitution says under section 5(c)QUALIFICATIONS. Each legislator shall be at least twenty-one years of age, an elector and resident of the district from which elected and shall have resided in the state for a period of two years prior to election.
Amber was 20 and did not turn 21 until October 18th so she did not meet the qualifications she also was originally running in Orlando and then changed to Pasco . When I spoke to Corcoran to object to her being on the ballot he said she qualified but yet the constitution says something else how much more are the Republicans going to get away with– why doesn’t anyone investigate such matters?
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