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Scott PowersMay 18, 2016

Republican Geoffrey LaGarde has filed to run in the Orlando-based Congressional District 10 race. If LaGarde qualifies — and he said he intends to do so by petition — it could force a Republican primary in that district with businesswoman Thuy Lowe of Sorrento. LaGarde, 34, is a master sergeant in the Air Force Reserves, currently active, […]

Scott PowersMay 18, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott‘s two-day summit to link education to jobs set for Orlando next week will feature many Florida college, business and Republican leaders as well as the football coaches from the University of Florida, Florida State University and the University of Miami. The Degrees to Jobs Summit, set for May 25 and 26 at […]

Scott PowersMay 18, 2016

Democrat Mike Clelland became the first local candidate to go up on the airwaves in Orlando Wednesday with a television ad highlighting his firefighter background for his Senate District 13 race. The 30-second commercial, “Blaring”, is designed to introduce Clelland to the area, according to his campaign. It begins with scenes of firetrucks and firefighters […]

Scott PowersMay 18, 2016

Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings has received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York in the Orlando-based Democratic Congressional District 10 race. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, previously endorsed state Sen. Darren Soto in the other hotly-contested Congressional Democratic primary in Orlando, Congressional District 6. “Throughout her years […]

Scott PowersMay 17, 2016

It took about a month for former U.S. Rep. Ric Keller to figure out the Republican Congressional District 6 race was doing just fine without him. That race, seeking a Republican to run to succeed U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in a redrawn district now dominated by Volusia County, has been as topsy-turvy as any in […]

Scott PowersMay 16, 2016

Former Democratic state Rep. Ricardo Rangel has dropped from his campaign to run for Congress and filed to try to win back his old Florida House seat that he lost in a party primary two years ago. Rangel, of Kissimmee, served in the House representing northern Osceola County in House District 43 from 2012 to […]

Scott PowersMay 16, 2016

BusinessForce, the political action arm of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, has endorsed incumbents Brandon Arrington and Fred Hawkins for re-election to the Osceola County Board of Commissioners. Arrington, a Democrat from Kissimmee, was first elected in 2008 and represents District 3. He has four challengers this year including two Democrats, Jamie Matos and […]

Scott PowersMay 15, 2016

The American Nurses Association has endorsed Val Demings in the Democratic primary race for Congressional District 10. The association represents 3.4 million nurses nationwide. “The American Nurses Association is proud to endorse Val Demings as our candidate in Florida’s 10th Congressional District,” Willa Fuller, executive director of the Florida Nurses Association, stated in a news […]

Scott PowersMay 13, 2016

A recent official House of Representatives mailing from state Rep. Randolph Bracy has one of his Florida Senate Democratic primary election opponents crying foul because the newsletter went beyond the House district. Last week Bracy sent out an Official Florida House of Representatives Newsletter for Spring 2016, containing all the usual positive reports and handsome photographs any […]

Scott PowersMay 12, 2016

Republican state Rep. Mike Miller raised more than $10,000 in April that keeps him comfortably better funded for his re-election campaign in House District 47, but two Democrats showed some fundraising prowess of their own. Miller, of Winter Park, brought in $10,400, and spent very little, giving him a war chest of $109,850 and no […]

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Republican Geoff LaGarde enters CD 10 race

Rick Scott’s Degrees To Jobs Summit to feature football coaches

Mike Clelland debuts TV commercial in SD 13 race

Nydia Velazquez endorses Val Demings in CD 10 race

Ric Keller came and went, yet the crazy CD 6 Republican race rolls on

Ricardo Rangel switches from congressional race to run for his old Florida House seat

BusinessForce endorses Brandon Arrington, Fred Hawkins for re-election in Osceola County

Nurses union endorses Val Demings in CD 10 race

Randolph Bracy newsletter criticized by SD 11 opponent Chuck O’Neal for going beyond district

Mike Miller posts $10K in donations as Dems Henry Lim, Beth Tuura chase in HD 47