Terry Roen, Author at Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Terry RoenNovember 8, 2016

Republican incumbents strolled to victory Tuesday over their Democratic opponents in three U.S. House races. District 6 Republican Ron DeSantis, a two-term Republican incumbent who ran for the U.S. Senate this year before dropping out this summer, won Florida’s 6th Congressional District race to defend his seat. DeSantis, of Palm Coast, beat Democrat Bill McCullough, a political […]

Terry RoenNovember 8, 2016

Attorney Michael Barber won the District 1 seat in Orange County’s Soil and Water Conservation race. The former assistant state attorney beat Environmentalist Maria Bolton-Joubert and Star Grayson, Congressman Alan Grayson’s daughter, for the win. Barber garnered 159,987 votes or 42 percent of the vote over Bolton-Joubert’s 145,714 (38 percent), and Grayson’s 76,628 (20 percent). “I […]

Terry RoenNovember 1, 2016

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has two weeks to return $77.6 million in taxpayer money it received as an incentive to build a Central Florida research center. However, the nonprofit research center has balked at the demand and claims they should not be required to repay the state. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity […]

Terry Roen

Republicans steamroll to win U.S. House races

Orlando attorney wins seat on Soil & Water Conservation

Florida DEO demands $77M back from Sanford Burnham