Primary Primer If everything you know about the upcoming Primary Election is based on campaign ads and fundraising emails, you might think Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist are the only guys on the ballot. But even though they appear to be campaigning against each other already, they both have primary opponents to beat first. Scott has two challengers: Yinka Abosede Adeshina and Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder. Crist, a newcomer to the Democratic Party, must take on Nan Rich, a former state rep. and state senator.
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There’s also a contest for Attorney General on the Democrat ticket, a County Commission race with candidates on both sides and two nonpartisan races (Circuit Judge, 1st Judicial Circuit, Group 2 and School Board District 3). To help you learn more about all the candidates, we did a mock ballot and included each candidate's website. Most have easy to find and read “About me” and “Issues” pages (and if they don’t you might want to make note of that when debating who to vote for). We also did a breakdown of the Crist/Rich race—because it’s the most contested of all the statewide races on the ballot.
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Ballot Breakdown August 26 • Primary Election
Democrat
Republican
GOVERNOR
GOVERNOR Rick Scott (I)
Charlie Crist
rickscottforflorida.com
charliecrist.com
Yinka Abosede Adeshina yinkaadeshinaforgovernor2014.com
Nan Rich
Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder
nanrich2014.com
elizabethforgovernor.com
ATTORNEY GENERAL George Sheldon
georgesheldon2014.com
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, District 1
Perry E. Thurston thurstonforflorida.com
John Krause
krause4congress.com
COUNTY COMMISSIONER, District 2 Ray Guillory
raymondguillory.com
Nonpartisan Races
Jeff Miller (I)
jeffmillerforcongress.com
COUNTY COMMISSIONER, District 2 Doug Underhill
Deb Moore
electdebmoore.com
voteunderhill.com
Gene Valentino (I) genevalentino.com
CIRCUIT JUDGE, Group 22 Michelle Inere inereforjudge.com
Jennie Kinsey
jenniekinseyforjudge.com
SCHOOL BOARD, District 3 Laura Dortch Edler
democracy.com/edlerforschoolboarddistrict3
Linda Moultrie (I)
democracy.com/Linda-Moultrie
Charlie Nichols
*(I) = incumbent 010 1
inweekly.net
Rich v. Crist
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY IS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 Important Information from Escambia County Supervisor of Elections David H. Stafford
Nan Rich
Age: 72 Currently Resides: Weston, Broward County Education: Miami Beach High School. Rich studied English at the University of Florida in the early 1960s, leaving before graduating to marry David Rich. Career Highlights: •Rich owned a floor covering business with her husband where she worked before becoming a stay-at-home mother. While raising four children, Rich became active with the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), worked to found Dade County’s Guardian ad Litem program in 1980s and served as chairwoman of the Children's Services Board of Broward County. •From 1996 to 1999, Rich served as the first Floridian elected as NCJW’s president. In 1999, President Bill Clinton appointed Rich to serve as a Board Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. •Rich served as a Democrat in the Florida House of Representatives (2000-2004) and in the state Senate (2004-2012). Rich was the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2010 to 2012 and was term-limited from office in November 2012. Rich on Crist: “He doesn’t want to do it [participate in a debate] because he doesn’t want to give me any more name recognition…he also knows I’m going right after him on the flips and flops of his record.” (Inweekly, “Come On Charlie,” June 26, 2014) Rich on Scott: “I have a very different opinion about where the priorities should be and how the dollars should follow those priorities. The dollars should be invested in education because that is the future for our children…we have got to get back to investing in public education. I mean from the very beginning—child care, to Pre-K, to K to 12, and Higher Ed—it’s a continuum.” (Inweekly, “Sowing Grassroots,” Dec. 12, 2013)
Charlie Crist
Age: 58 Currently Resides: St. Petersburg, Pinellas County Education: St. Petersburg High School. Crist earned an undergraduate degree from Florida State University in 1978 and a Juris Doctorate from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. Career Highlights: •Early in his legal career, Crist interned in the Florida State Attorney’s office before accepting a position as general counsel for the minor league division of the Baseball Commissioner's Office. He then went on to work as state director for U.S. Senator Connie Mack before practicing law with the Tampa firm of Wood and Crist. •Crist served as a Republican in the Florida State Senate (1993-1999) and later as the state’s Commissioner of Education (20012003) and Attorney General (2003-2007). •Crist then served as the Governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican; he ran for U.S. Senate in 2010, when he switched parties after losing the Republican primary to Marco Rubio, becoming an Independent to run in the general election, which Rubio won.
VOTE EARLY AT 7 AREA LOCATIONS! SAT., AUG. 16, THROUGH SAT., AUG. 23
Beginning Saturday, August 16, 2014, voters may cast their ballot early at any one of the seven area locations. Early voting times are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Supervisor of Elections Main Office 213 Palafox Place, 2nd Floor Southwest Branch Library 12248 Gulf Beach Highway Main Library 239 Spring Street Molino Branch Library 6450-A Highway 95A, Molino
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Crist on Rich: Crist has said little regarding Rich. When asked about the possibility of debating Rich in January 2014, Rich told the Miami Herald, “I’m not even thinking about that right now, to be honest with you,” adding, “And this is not really a race about candidates. This is a race about the people of our state.”
Sources: articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-08-09/news/fl-election-governor-primary-20140809_1_nanrich-charlie-crist-crist-and-scott/2
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•In 2012, Crist announced his move to the Democratic Party, a decision he documented in his February 2014 book, “The Party’s Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat.”
Crist on Scott: “I think that when you run the first time nobody really knows who you are. What’s that old expression? ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’ I don’t think Floridians are going to be fooled again.” (Inweekly, “A Party to Call His Own,” Oct. 30, 2013)
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