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Scott PowersJuly 1, 2016

Democratic candidate Carlos Guillermo Smith got through the candidate filing period with no primary opponent and only an independent waiting in the November election for Florida House District 49, but still had a nice campaign finance haul in June. Smith’s campaign reported raising $9,051 in the June period ending June 24, and spent $5,690, leaving him with […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

State Sen. Darren Soto has won the endorsement of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in his quest for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s Congressional District 9. The union represents more than a half-million workers in the construction industry, including more than 70,000 public employees. “Our members are committed to being part of the […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica has gotten a primary opponent in his bid for a 13th term representing Orange and Seminole Counties in Congress. Mica, of Winter Park, will face Mark Busch, a Casselberry businessman who was once served as vice chairman of the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District, for Florida’s 7th Congressional […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

Another Grayson is running for election. Star Grayson, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson‘s 17-year-old daughter, has filed to run for the District 1 seat in Orange County’s Soil and Water Conservation District. The younger Grayson, a Democrat like her father and stepmother Dena Grayson, will turn 18 in November, before the Nov. 8 election. Star Grayson was […]

Scott PowersJune 23, 2016

Rollins College business professor and former Department of Defense analyst Stephanie Murphy has filed to run for Congress as a Democrat in the Seminole County-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The last-moment entry of Murphy 37, of Winter Park, gives the Democrats something they have been beating the bushes for all year, a credible candidate to […]

Scott PowersJune 20, 2016

Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, a wealthy real estate, banking and car dealership businessman who was running for president out of California until March, has filed to run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Florida. De La Fuente qualified to appear in the Aug. 30 Democratic U.S. Senate primary on Monday according to […]

Scott PowersJune 20, 2016

Orlando TV journalist Keith Landry announced Monday he had quit his longtime job reporting for Fox 35 TV News to run for Orange County comptroller. Landry said he would file his paperwork today. Landry, 47, of Orlando, will take on Phil Diamond in the contest to succeed retiring career Comptroller Martha Haynie. Landry has served as an anchor, reporter and public […]

Scott PowersJune 9, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Bob Poe of Orlando announced Thursday that he has HIV, though he is healthy and has been so since first being diagnosed 18 years ago. Poe, a Democrat running in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, said he struggled all year trying to decide whether, when and how to come out to voters and the public […]

Scott PowersJune 2, 2016

Sean Ashby, a teacher and Democrat running in the House District 50 race, is asking Orange County school officials if student safety protocols were sufficient in a recent investigation of an alleged student abduction attempt. Ashby is raising questions about an April 29 incident which did not become public until almost two weeks later. Hours after […]

Scott PowersJune 2, 2016

Democrat Carlos Guillermo Smith‘s campaign raised more than $15,000 in May for his run in Orlando-based House District 49, making him one of the first House candidates to top the $100,000 campaign finance mark. A year after Smith formally entered the race — Republican incumbent state Rep. Rene Plasencia decided to switch to House District 50 — […]

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Carlos Guillermo Smith continues solid fundraising in HD 49

Darren Soto gets laborers’ union endorsement in CD 9 race

John Mica faces GOP primary in CD 7, while Dem Stephanie Murphy awaits qualifying

Star Grayson, Alan Grayson’s daughter, files to run in Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District

Stephanie Murphy files to run against John Mica in CD 7

Roque De La Fuente files as Democrat in U.S. Senate race

Former Fox 35 News journalist Keith Landry to run for Orange Co. comptroller

Congressional Candidate Bob Poe: ‘I have HIV’

HD 50 candidate Sean Ashby seeks inquiry of April 29 abduction attempt

Carlos Guillermo Smith announces $15K haul in May for HD 49 race