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Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2017

Democratic nominee Paul Chandler‘s stealth resignation from the special election for Florida House 44, combined with Hurricane Irma, might have already given the election victory to Republican nominee Bobby Olszewski. Chandler filed his resignation Friday, but the Florida Secretary of State’s office was closed Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday because of Hurricane Irma. So […]

Scott PowersAugust 8, 2017

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With a week left before voters in Florida’s House District 44 decide who will be the Republican nominee seeking to fill the vacant seat, nearly 3,000 votes have been cast, with a large portion of them coming from the Dr. Phillips and Windermere areas of the sprawling southwest Orange County district. Through Tuesday, 2,940 votes […]

Scott PowersAugust 1, 2017

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More than 2,000 absentee ballots already have been returned in the upcoming special Republican primary election for House District 44 in west Orange County. The office of Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles reported Tuesday afternoon that 7,175 absentee ballots have been requested and mailed out for the contest, and 2,063 already have been […]

Scott PowersJune 9, 2016

Orange County voters will try again and try again to do something many officials thought it had already done once, convert the sheriff, tax collector, comptroller and three other offices to nonpartisan elected officials. The Orange County Charter Review Commission voted Thursday to put not one but two new proposed charter amendments on the November […]

Scott PowersJanuary 12, 2016

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs lost a power struggle with the county’s six constitutional officers Tuesday when a panel refused her request proposing they be switched to Orange County charter posts. A working group of the Orange County Charter Review Commission turned down Jacobs’ request to recommend a charter amendment, after hearing each of the […]

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