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Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2016

U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will join Val Demings for a campaign event Tuesday in Demings’ bid to win the Democratic nomination to run for Congress in Congressional District 10. Pelosi, a California congresswoman who already has endorsed Demings over her rivals state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, businessman Bob Poe and lawyer Fatima Rita Fahmy, […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Val Demings has gained the endorsements of the Service Trades Council group of unions representing Walt Disney World workers and specifically the United Food and Commercial Workers, her campaign announced Friday. Demings, a former Orlando police chief, is running in Orlando-based Congressional District 10, in a Democratic primary field that includes state […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2016

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs has appointed Millie Irizarry as her special assistant in the Office of Public Engagement and Hispanic Affairs, her office announced. Irizarry’s responsibilities include building awareness of Orange County services to Hispanic communities throughout the county. Irizarry is also charged with finding how Orange County can best deliver services to its […]

Scott PowersFebruary 18, 2016

State Rep. John Cortes of Kissimmee has endorsed state Sen. Darren Soto in his bid to seek the Democratic nomination to run for Congress in Congressional District 9, which includes Kissimmee. Cortes’s house district is largely contained within Soto’s Senate district, and in CD 9. “Darren Soto is exactly the kind of representative Central Florida […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2016

Hillary For Florida will open field offices in Jacksonville and Orlando on Wednesday, giving the Hillary Clinton Democratic presidential campaign five Florida offices. The Orlando office will officially open at 2153 West Oak Ridge Rd., at 6 p.m. National Organization of Women Florida President Terry Sanders will give the opening remarks. The Jacksonville office will officially open […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2016

Susannah Randolph has won the endorsement of the National Women’s Political Caucus in her bid for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s Congressional District 9, her campaign announced. The NWPC, founded in 1971, is a national, multi-partisan, grassroots membership organization dedicated to identifying, recruiting, training and supporting women candidates for elected and appointed office. The group […]

Scott PowersFebruary 14, 2016

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There is Valleri Crabtree at the Rotary Club of Celebration. There she at Place for Grace in St. Cloud. There’s Crabtree at the Leadership Osceola reception, and the Osceola Council on Aging, and the Polk County Democratic Executive Committee, and the Poinciana Villages Community Meeting, and at a Fashion Square Mall festival, and at her […]

Scott PowersFebruary 12, 2016

Val Demings, Annette Taddeo, and Randall Perkins are among 16 Democratic congressional candidates nationally to be picked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red To Blue program, signaling stronger financial and organizational backing. The DCCC selected the trio and also announced that it would include Congressional District 13 in the program, though it did not identify […]

Scott PowersFebruary 11, 2016

Susannah Randolph has received the endorsement of Students for a New America Politics organization in her Democratic race for Orlando-based Congressional District 9, her campaign says. SNAP’s political action committee calls itself the nation’s largest and most effective student-run PAC. The organization typically contributes small amounts, three- and low four-figure amounts of cash, to campaigns […]

Scott PowersFebruary 10, 2016

State Sen. Alan Hays has filed to run for the supervisor of elections office in Lake County rather than stay in the Florida Senate. Hays, who still could run for a two-year term in the Florida Senate, instead filed Monday to replace a legend in Lake County, Supervisor Emogene W. Stegall, who has run the elections office […]

Orlando

Nancy Pelosi to join Val Demings in CD 10 event in Orlando

Food workers union, Disney union group endorse Val Demings in CD 10 race

Orange County mayor appoints special assistant for Hispanic affairs

John Cortes endorses Darren Soto in CD 9 race

Hillary Clinton campaign opening field offices in Orlando, Jacksonville on Wednesday

Susannah Randolph gets nod from National Women’s Political Caucus in CD 9 race

Valleri Crabtree, Dena Minning, trying opposite approaches to being CD 9 X-factors

Val Demings, Annette Taddeo, Randall Perkins win DCCC “Red to Blue” backing

Susannah Randolph wins nod from student progressives in CD 9 race

Alan Hays files to run for Lake County Supervisor of Elections