Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersMay 28, 2018

The latest personal finance reports for candidates running for Congress in Central Florida find the Florida’s 7th Congressional District race includes two candidates with net worths of more than $1 million, incumbent Democrat U.S Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park and Republican challenger Scott Sturgill of Sanford. They and Democratic former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, […]

Scott PowersMay 4, 2018

U.S. Rep. Val Demings need only win her August 28 primary to earn re-election to a second term representing Florida’s 10th Congressional District as no Republicans qualified for the ballot to oppose her. With qualifying ending Friday, Demings drew a Democratic primary challenge from Wade Darius, but no one else, creating an open primary vote […]

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 […]

Scott PowersJanuary 15, 2018

Orlando businessman Wade Darius is seeking to challenge U.S. Rep. Val Demings in a Democratic primary this year for Florida’s 10th Congressional District. Darius, 36, chief executive officer of TD Homes Marketing of Orlando, said Monday he is challenging Demings primarily out of his belief that she has not been aggressive enough in opposing the […]

Tag: Wade Darius
Image via Florida A&M University.

Three Central Florida congressional candidates top $1 million in net worths

No Republican opposition for Val Demings

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

Val Demings picks up Democratic primary challenger in CD 10