David Smith picks up endorsement from military veterans’ business group

David Smith

Republican David Smith has picked up the endorsement of the Florida Association of Veteran-Owned Businesses in his campaign for Florida House District 28.

The group representing military veterans seeks to promote and unite established and start-up companies owned by veterans and disabled veterans throughout the state of Florida, a pool estimated at more than 180,000.

FAVOB Chairman Donald Morrell said the group based its endorsement on his “commitment to veterans and veteran-owned businesses.”

Smith, a Winter Springs business consultant, faces Democrat Lee Mangold, a Casselberry businessman, in Nov. 6 election for the open seat in HD 28, representing northeast Seminole County.

“I’m honored to have the endorsement and support of so many of my fellow veterans,” Smith, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, stated in a news release from his campaign. “FAVOB is making a real difference in Florida, but has mostly gone unnoticed. I hope to change that when I get to Tallahassee. Florida Veterans deserve a strong advocate in the legislature.”

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 Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused.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