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A.G. GancarskiApril 30, 2018

Popular Northeast Florida Republican Congressmen John Rutherford and Ted Yoho, heavy favorites for re-election, have qualified for the 2018 ballot. Rutherford, whose district encompasses Nassau, Duval, and northern St. Johns Counties, has $300,000 in the bank for his re-election campaign. Jacksonville candidates Joceline Berrios and Monica DePaul, as well as Ponte Vedra businessman George Selmont, comprise the three candidates from the […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 29, 2018

U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho epitomizes the post-Tea Party rock-ribbed Republican type … yet he won’t stay in Congress forever. Yoho, elected in 2012, pledged in that campaign to only serve eight years in Congress. If that pledge holds true, Yoho’s last campaign would be this year’s. Though at least one opponent can’t wait. Self-styled “new Republican” Judson […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 16, 2018

There’s more than a few key races heating up among Florida’s congressional seats, but for every true competitor in a 2018 battleground district there are a dozen head-scratchers who’ve mounted hopeless House campaigns. No, none of these candidates have sacrificed a goat as part of a pagan ritual, but it likely wouldn’t make their long-shot […]

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John Rutherford, Ted Yoho qualify for re-election

‘New Republican’ Judson Sapp challenges Ted Yoho

New crop of not-ready-for-primetimers launch congressional campaigns