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Drew WilsonNovember 8, 2018

Most Florida Democrats woke up consumed by what went wrong on Election Day. Another nil for five performance in statewide races, and a one for six performance in the state Senate, assuming current margins hold. But Ruth’s List Florida was more than a little cheery with an email celebrating its “historic victories” on Tuesday. Their […]

Jacob OglesNovember 6, 2018

State Rep. Margaret Good won her first full term in the Florida House on Tuesday after defeating Republican challenger Ray Pilon, but by a closer margin than expected. With all votes counted, Good led Pilon 51 percent-49 percent, or 41,278 votes to 40,134. The Sarasota Democrat made national headlines after her special election victory in […]

Jacob OglesNovember 6, 2018

Candidates in Southwest Florida anticipated lengthy debates about Medicaid expansions, gun rights and maybe charter school funding to dominate political discourse this election. So it seemed illustrative to state Sen. Kathleen Passidomo when a Naples candidate forum contained not one question about health care came up. “This year,” she said, “it’s all about the water […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

At least eight Republican-held Florida House seats should be in Democrats’ grasps — that is if voters vote their colors — while Republicans have two Democratic seats that ought to be flippable. And another 14 districts, all but one of which are held by Republicans, the voter registrations between Republicans and Democrats are air-tight, within […]

Jacob OglesNovember 4, 2018

Democratic State Rep. Margaret Good has spent nearly a half million dollars in the hope of remaining in office, a feat all the more remarkable because it’s the second time that has happened this calendar year. The final financial reports before the Nov. 6 general election show Good through Nov. 1 raised a total of $542,192, and […]

Jacob OglesOctober 28, 2018

Republican state Senate candidate Joe Gruters knows his success this year relies on the strength of the GOP ticket as a whole. “We’re trying to drive turnout for the entire team,” he said. As the 10-year chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota, Gruters knows the importance of lifting the entire slate more acutely than […]

Jacob OglesOctober 27, 2018

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Republican Will Robinson raised more in a week in mid-October than many non-incumbents pulled in all year in the contest for Florida House District 71. He continues to out-raise and outspend Democrat Tracy Pratt in the open Bradenton-area race. In the fundraising period from Oct. 13 through 19, he pulled in $18,900 in monetary contributions. […]

Jacob OglesOctober 26, 2018

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Democratic state Rep. Margaret Good plans to stand her ground on gun safety, and said her Republican challenger Ray Pilon, a lifetime National Rifle Association member, shouldn’t attack her on her Parkland vote. Pilon, who previously held Good’s Florida House District 72 seat, released a new attack ad featuring Andrew Pollock calling into question Good’s […]

Drew WilsonOctober 25, 2018

The Florida Retail Federation PAC, the political arm of the state’s retail trade organization, endorsed more than two dozen candidates seeking to earn their first terms in the state House next month. The bulk of the 26 candidates getting FRF’s seal of approval are seeking open seats in the state House, but a handful of […]

Jacob OglesOctober 10, 2018

Democrats running in the Sarasota-Bradenton area banded together at an event organized by the progressive group Indivisible. State Rep. Margaret Good, the incumbent in state House District 72, and Democratic Congressional candidate David Shapiro, who thus far mustered a serious campaign for Florida’s 16th Congressional District, rallied the crowd of activists from both Indivisible’s Northeast […]

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Ruth’s List Florida dubs run-of-the-mill results “historic victories”

Democrat Margaret Good holds onto District 72 seat

Red Tide Politics: It’s the environment, stupid.

Voter registration shows 10 House seats most flippable, mostly toward Democrats

Margaret Good spends nearly half a million — again

Joe Gruters shifts into overdrive for himself, fellow Republicans

Will Robinson keeps outraising, outspending Tracy Pratt

Margaret Good says hey, hey, don’t vote for NRA-owned Ray Pilon

Florida Retailers recommend bundle of new state representatives

David Shapiro, Margaret Good rally Sarasota voters around Democratic slate