The Florida Primary For Election Senate Race - Will Bill Nelson be Re-elected?
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For more potential candidates, see News Article below. The election will be quite heated.
Bernie DeCastro (Constitution)
Alex Snitker (Libertarian)
State Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, has all but announced his candidacy. He is not well known statewide, but his legislative position will enable him to raise considerable money and elevate his profile. "I was conservative before conservative was cool,'' said Haridopolos, a 40-year-old university lecturer and consultant who may be the nominal frontrunner. "I've been a consistent conservative my entire career and made a career converting the Florida Senate from a liberal-to-moderate place, where liberals and trial lawyers and tax advocates won, to a place that is unquestionably fiscally conservative now." Haridopolos has been firing salvos against Nelson for months. In July, he sent Nelson a letter seeking answers to what he deemed pressing questions about Florida's future. Six days later, with no response, Haridopolos issued a news release using his Senate office letterhead. "It is important that Floridians know what Sen. Nelson plans to do in the coming months as our state's senior senator to make up for the inaction they have seen," it read.
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, has taken a similarly aggressive posture against Nelson. Just before Election Day, his campaign issued an unusual fundraising appeal that lacked any reference that Mack was on the ballot for the U.S. House. Instead it cast Nelson as a liberal "professional politician." Mack, 43, followed up with another attack on Nelson and President Barack Obama after the November unemployment numbers were released. Thanks to sharing the name of his father, the former Florida senator, the younger Connie Mack IV already enjoys the kind of statewide name recognition most other contenders lack. That may give him more time than others to decide whether it's worth risking a safe congressional seat. "I haven't made any decision to run. I haven't made any decisions not to run,'' said Mack, who is married to U.S. Rep. Mary Bono of California. "Some of my very good friends around the state have called and encouraged me to run. But this is a decision I'll have to make on my own time, and I don't feel the time is now."
Former state House Majority Leader Hasner, 40, is talking to key Republican leaders across the state and country and expects to make a decision after the holidays. Hasner, one of the first prominent elected Republicans to publicly criticize Gov. Crist, is little known in much of the state but is well connected and can raise money across the country from Jewish Republican operatives. He is married to a savvy campaign strategist, Jillian Hasner, who most recently managed Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign in California.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, has long been viewed as a future Senate candidate but lately sounds more focused on his new post as the only Floridian on the influential House Ways and Means Committee. A multimillionaire who can self-fund a campaign, Buchanan, 59, has the luxury of waiting until late in the political season to decide his future.
Plant City Republican Mike McCalister declared his candidacy Dec. 6 in the Villages. The retired Army colonel was a late entry in the race for governor this year and took a surprising 10 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, which helped Rick Scott defeat Bill McCollum.
District 1:
Jeff Miller (R)
Chuck Lynch (D)
Jim Bryan (D)
Calen Fretts (Libertarian)
William Drummond II (Reform)
Jason Samek (Independent)
District 2:
Steve Southerland (R)
Leonard Bembry (D)
Al Lawson (D)
Jay Liles (D)
Alvin Peters (D)
Nancy Argenziano (IP)
District 3:
Corrine Brown (D)
Bill Smalley (D)
LeAnne Kolb (R)
Mike Yost (R)
Gerald Nyren (Libertarian)
District 4:
Ander Crenshaw (R)
Bob Black (R)
Jim Klauder (R)
Deb Pueschel (R)
Gary Koniz (D)
Brian Lieberman (Independent)
District 5:
Rich Nugent (R)
Dave Werder (D)
Eileen Fleming (Independent)
Bruce Ray Riggs (Independent)
John Russell (Independent)
District 6:
Cliff Stearns (R)
Ted Yoho (R)
James Jett (R)
Steve Oelrich (R)
District 7:
John Mica (R)
Bill Kogut (R)
Vipin Verma (D)
District 8:
Daniel Webster (R)
Val Demings (D)
Nelson Betancourt (Independent)
Leonard Church (Independent)
District 9:
Gus Bilirakis (R)
Jonathan Michael Snow (D)
District 10:
C.W. "Bill" Young (R)
Madeline Vance (R)
Charlie Crist (D/Independent)
Ken Welch (D)
Michael Hull (Libertarian)
District 11:
Kathy Castor (D)
Eddie Adams Jr. (R)
Josh Kiernan (R)
E.J. Otero (R)
Mark Sharpe (R)
Shawn Harrison (R)
Tommy Castellano (Independent)
District 12:
Dennis Ross (R)
District 13:
Vern Buchanan (R)
Keith Fitzgerald (D)
District 14:
James Roach (D)
Thomas Scherer (D)
Connie Mack IV (R)
Gary Aubuchon (R)
Joe Davidow (R)
Byron Donalds (R)
Chauncey Goss (R)
Tammy Hall (R)
Ray Judah (R)
Brian Owens (R)
Trey Radel (R)
Timothy John Rossano (R)
Burt Saunders (R)
Christopher Sandy (R)
John Sawyer (R)
Lee Titchworth (R)
District 15:
David Gunter (D)
Shannon Roberts (D)
Bill Posey (R)
Richard Gillmor (Independent)
District 16:
David Lutrin (D)
Tom Rooney (R)
Joe Arnold (R)
District 17:
Frederica Wilson (D)
District 18:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R)
Marcus Rivchin Jr. (R)
Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins (Independent)
Jose Peixoto (Independent)
District 19:
Ted Deutch (D)
James Gleason (R)
Joyce Kaufman (R)
Anna Trujillo (R)
Mike Trout (Independent)
District 20:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
Joe Kaufman (R)
Joe Goldner (R)
Karen Harrington (R)
Ozzie deFaria (R)
Juan Eliel Garcia (R)
Carl Mathiesen (R)
Les Winston (R)
Ilya Katz (Independent)
District 21:
Mario Diaz-Balart (R)
District 22:
Allen West (R)
Lois Frankel (D)
Patrick Murphy (D)
District 23:
Alcee Hastings (D)
District 24:
Sandy Adams (R)
Nicholas Ruiz III (D)
District 25:
David Rivera (R)
Carlos Curbelo (R)
Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (R)
Anitere Flores (R)
J.C. Planas (R)
Luis Garcia (D)
Annette Taddeo (D)
Justin Sternad (D)
New Districts 26 & 27:
Alan Grayson (D)
Manny Yevancey (D)
Karen Diebel (R)
Mike Fasano (R)
Paige Kreegel (R)
Julius Anthony Melendez (R)
Mark Oxner (R)
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Beginning in 1868, the federal government instituted a congressional program of "reconstruction" in Florida and the other southern states. During this period, Republican officeholders tried to enact sweeping changes, many of which were aimed at giving voting power for Negroes .
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At the time of the 1876 presidential election, federal troops still occupied Florida. The state's Republican government and recently enfranchised African American voters helped to put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House. However, Democrats gained control of enough state offices to end the years of Republican rule and prompt the removal of federal troops the following year. A series of political battles in the state left Negroes with little voice in their government.
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