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Scott PowersSeptember 24, 2018

Democratic Florida House nominee Anna Eskamani‘s campaign announced Monday that her campaign and political committee now have topped $420,000 in fundraising, an astonishing total for a first-time candidate. Yet her declaration comes amid indications that fundraising is coming alive for the campaign of her Republican opponent in House District 47, Stockton Reeves. Eskamani’s announcement Monday includes […]

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 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 5, 2018

The House District 47 race just went hard-core ugly with a reported third-party push poll call that has both the apparent target, Democrat Anna Eskamani, and the perceived beneficiary, Republican Stockton Reeves, expressing outrage Wednesday. A pollster in a live-interview telephone call Tuesday night asked if the recipient’s views of Eskamani would change, “if you […]

Scott PowersSeptember 4, 2018

Several Central Florida Republican Florida House candidates entered the fall general election with solid financial advantages over their Democratic challengers. That was the case with several House incumbent members seeking re-election and also is the case for David Smith who is running to win an open seat for Florida’s House District 28. It’s not the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 4, 2018

Democrat Anna Eskamani has raised more than $350,000 in her bid for Florida House District 47, her campaign announced Tuesday. The amount, according to her campaign, is an extraordinary total for a first-time candidate to a Florida House seat. It speaks to both her campaign’s fundraising prowess and to the unusual phenomenon of her campaign, which […]

Scott PowersAugust 29, 2018

Were some Republican voters put under the impression that one of the two Republicans running in Florida’s House District 47 primary Tuesday had dropped out? And might that impression have confused some voters to the point that they didn’t vote, possibly changing the outcome of the election? Mikaela Nix, who lost that primary to Stockton […]

Scott PowersAugust 24, 2018

Republican House of Representatives candidate Stockton Reeves VI has filed new campaign finance reports showing expenses for campaign mailers that his primary opponent claimed he had not accounted for in the state House District 47 battle. The filing, for Friday’s campaign finance reporting deadline, shows Reeves paying $66,952 to Strategic Image Management to cover consulting and […]

Scott PowersAugust 23, 2018

Republican Florida House candidate Mikaela Nix has been endorsed by Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos López-Cantera for House District 47, her campaign announced Thursday. “I admire Mikaela because she has a passion for helping people and a love for the law,” said López-Cantera in a prepared statement. “There’s no doubt that she would be an effective leader […]

Scott PowersAugust 23, 2018

Republican Mikaela Nix has filed an ethics complaint against Stockton Reeves VI, charging that he is hiding expenses in his campaign finance reports. The two will face off in next Tuesday’s Republican primary for House District 47. The complaint is the second filed against Reeves on Nix’ behalf. Earlier, it was from an Orange County Republican, who […]

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Anna Eskamani touts $420K raised, Stockton Reeves’ fundraising comes alive

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

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

HD 47 push poll question on Iran has both Anna Eskamani and Stockton Reeves incensed

Central Florida Republicans start House general campaigns with strong financial edges

Anna Eskamani clears $350K in her fundraising for HD 47

Candidate withdrawal notices spark concerns over HD 47 primary results

Stockton Reeves files reports on challenged campaign mailers

Mikaela Nix gets Carlos López-Cantera’s backing in HD 47 primary

Mikaela Nix files new ethics complaint against Stockton Reeves in HD 47 primary