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Scott PowersSeptember 18, 2018

Democratic Florida House candidate Anna Eskamani has released her first television commiercial of the campaign season, focusing on her mother’s story and then on the House District 47 candidate’s commitment to health care coverage. The 30-second television commercial, “Fighting for Our Health”, starts out covering much of the same ground as the biographical video Eskamani […]

Scott PowersSeptember 18, 2018

Orange County Mayor-elect Jerry Demings has announced his transition advisory team to be lead by Orlando entrepreneur Harold Mills and the last Democrat to hold the post he won in the August election, Linda Chapin. The bipartisan, 37-member team is full of leaders of Central Florida businesses and nonprofits including those from Walt Disney World, […]

Scott PowersSeptember 17, 2018

Democratic Florida House nominee Lee Mangold has received the endorsement of a coalition of unions representing teachers and other employees of Seminole County Schools for his quest to be elected in House District 28, his campaign announced Monday. Mangold has been endorseed by UniServe, the umbrella organization for the Seminole Education Association, Seminole Education Clerical […]

Scott PowersSeptember 17, 2018

Fresh off July’s federal court ruling that Florida’s college campuses can host early voting sites, the University of Central Florida announced one will be open on its campus for the Nov. 6 election on the Orlando campus. UCF and Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles announced Monday the Live Oak Event Center on the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 17, 2018

Orange County Mayor-elect Jerry Demings is setting out to help shape the Orange County Commission with which he’ll work. He’s hosting a fundraiser set for next week to support Mayra Uribe‘s quest to be elected in District 3. Demings, currently the Orange County Sheriff, was elected Mayor of the county in the Aug. 28 election, when […]

Scott PowersSeptember 17, 2018

Eight outside political committees and groups provided almost $1.2 million support to U.S. Rep. Darren Soto‘s defeat of his predecessor former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson in the Aug. 28 Democratic primary for Florida’s 9th Congressional District. Apparently highlighting the outside help for Soto was the George Soros–backed Latino Victory Fund, which claimed on primary day that […]

Jacob OglesSeptember 15, 2018

With the Republican nomination fight for Governor behind him and having officially resigned from his U.S. House seat, former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis will travel Florida in a series of campaign stops today. DeSantis will start his Saturday in Casselberry at the Seminole County Victory HQ at 10 a.m. Then he heads to the Hispanic […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 14, 2018

Incoming House Speaker Jose Oliva will take over chairmanship of the Public Integrity and Ethics Committee “to investigate the misuse of funds by the University of Central Florida,” term-limited Speaker Richard Corcoran announced Friday. The university’s chief financial officer, William Merck, stepped down Thursday after an audit revealed the school improperly used $38 million in state […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2018

Updated with news of a House District 50 debate. A Central Florida organization teaming with WFTV Channel 9 to produce elections debates for Orlando-area Florida House districts has firmed up four and has three others falling through because of lack of commitments from Republican candidates, an organizer said Friday. Gregory Eisenberg, chief executive officer of […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2018

Republican congressional candidate state Rep. Mike Miller signed a pledge Friday to vote for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, his campaign for Congress announced. The pledge, to “Let Us Vote for a U.S. Balanced Budget Amendment,” re-affirms Miller’s support for a balanced budget and for a Constitutional amendment to require it, and he […]

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Anna Eskamani TV ad links tribute to mother and commitment to health care

Linda Chapin, Harold Mills to lead Jerry Demings transition team

Seminole County schools unions back Lee Mangold in HD 28 race

Orange County, UCF announce campus early voting site for general election

Jerry Demings weighing in on Orange County Commission race

Outside groups spent $1.2 million to help Darren Soto defeat Alan Grayson

Ron DeSantis to campaign in Central Florida on Saturday

Jose Oliva to lead investigation of misspent state money at UCF

Central Florida house district election debates: four on, three off

Mike Miller signs balanced budget pledge