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2018 Florida House Of Representatives Election
The 2018 Florida House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Florida on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the Florida House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The election coincided with the Florida gubernatorial election, 2018, election for Governor of Florida, governor, and 2018 Florida elections, other elections. The Republicans won 73 seats and losing only two, maintaining their control since 1997, while the Democrats gained six seats. Four vacant seats, all won by Republicans in 2016, were picked up by Democrats. Results Closest races Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%: # # gain # # # # # # gain # # # # # # # # gain # # # # gain # gain # # # # # # Predictions Retiring incumbents Republicans *Clay Ingram, District 1 (term-limited) *Frank White (Florida politician), Frank White, District 2 (retiring, ran for Fl Att gen) *Elizabeth W. Porter, District 10 (term-limited) *Jay Fant, Distri ...
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Janet Cruz
Janet Cruz (born July 7, 1956) is an American politician who formerly served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Florida Senate, representing part of Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County and Tampa, Florida, Tampa from 2018 until 2022 before losing re-election, as well as four terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing a Tampa-based district from 2010 until her election to the Senate. History Cruz was born in Tampa, Florida, Tampa and attended Hillsborough Community College, where she graduated with an Associate degree, Associate degree in opticianry in 1977. She had her first child at the age of 16 and started a small business to support herself and her family. Cruz owns and operates several franchised Pearle Vision Center stores in the Tampa Bay region and worked as a Regional Director for Cigna, Cigna Healthcare in Senior Group Sales. Florida House of Representatives 2009 special election On December 13, 2009, Florida ...
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Governing (magazine)
''Governing'' is a website, edited and published in Washington, D.C., that covers state and local government in the United States. Originally a national monthly magazine, it was published in print from 1987 to 2019. It covers policy, politics, and the management of government enterprises. Its subject areas include government finance, land use, economic development, the environment, technology, and transportation. History For most of its life, ''Governing'' was published by Washington, D.C.–based Congressional Quarterly, Inc., a subsidiary of the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1994, ''Governing'' acquired its primary competitor, ''City & State ''City & State'' is a political journalism organization based in New York City. The company publishes a weekly magazine covering politics and government in New York City and New York State that is distributed to New York State legislators, co ...'' magazine, and that publication was merged into ''Governing.'' In 2 ...
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Larry Alhern
Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names. Larry may refer to the following: People Arts and entertainment *Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer *Larry Boone, American country singer * Larry Collins, American musician, member of the rockabilly sibling duo The Collins Kids *Larry Carlton (born 1948), American jazz guitarist and singer *Larry David (born 1947), Emmy-winning American actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director *Larry Emdur, Australian television personality * Larry Feign, American cartoonist working in Hong Kong *Larry Fine (1902–1975), American comedian and actor, one of the Three Stooges *Larry Gates, American actor *Larry Gatlin, American country singer *Larry Gayao (better known as Larry g(EE)), Filipino-American soul-pop artist *Larry Gelbart (1928–2009), American screenwriter, playwright, director and author *Larry Graham, founder of American funk band Graham Cen ...
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Ross Spano
Vincent Ross Spano (born July 16, 1966) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative from . The district stretches from Lakeland to the northeastern suburbs of Tampa. A Republican, he was first elected to Congress in the 2018 elections. He ran for reelection in the 2020 election but was defeated in the Republican primary. Personal life Ross Spano was born in Tampa and currently lives in nearby Dover. He graduated from Brandon High School. He later attended the University of South Florida, where he graduated with a BA in history in 1994, and the Florida State University College of Law, receiving a JD ''cum laude'' in 1998, where he was a member of the FSU moot court team and the FSU Journal of Transnational Law and Policy. Ross Spano was admitted to the Florida bar the same year. Spano is a Baptist. Florida House of Representatives In 2012, following the reconfiguration of the Florida House of Representatives districts, Spano ran in the newly created 59th D ...
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Jake Rayburn
Jake may refer to: Name * Jake (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Katrin Jäke (born c. 1975), German swimmer * Jake (gamer), American ''Overwatch'' player and coach * Jake, a member of the band Enhypen Animals * Jake (rescue dog), a search and rescue dog in the United States * Jake, a young male wild turkey Slang * Jake, a slang term in the United States for Jamaica ginger extract * Jake, a slang term used in Discordianism to describe a prank, often celebrated on Jake Day * Jake, a slang term in the United Kingdom to call police Other uses * Allied reporting name of the Aichi E13A, a Japanese World War II reconnaissance floatplane * "The Jake," nickname of the Major League Baseball stadium once known as Jacobs Field, now Progressive Field * Jake the Alligator Man, an oddity on view in Long Beach, Washington * Jake / Bot2, one of the remotely operated vehicles used during the filming of the documentary ''Ghosts of the Abyss'' * Ja ...
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Ben Albritton
Ben Albritton (born August 17, 1968) is a Republican politician, current member of the Florida Senate and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 56th District, which includes DeSoto County, Hardee County, and southwestern Polk County, from 2012 to 2018. Albritton previously represented the 66th District from 2010 to 2012. History Albritton was born in Lakeland and attended Florida Southern College, where he received a degree in citrus in 1990. Following graduation, he joined his family's citrus grove company, working with his brother and his uncle. Albritton served on the Peace River Valley Citrus Growers Association Board from 2002 to 2007, and in 2005, he was appointed to the Florida Citrus Commission by Governor Jeb Bush, where he served until 2010 following reappointment by Governor Charlie Crist, including a tenure as chairman from 2007 to 2010. Additionally, Albritton served on the East Charlotte County Drainage District as a board memb ...
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Tom Goodson
Tom Goodson (born February 16, 1951) is a Republican politician and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives. History Goodson attended Brevard Community College, graduating with his Associate degree in 1973, and later attended Florida State University, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 1975. In 1988, he founded Goodson Paving, which continues to operate. Goodson was elected to the Canaveral Port Authority in 2002, defeating Don Molitor with 51% of the vote. He was re-elected unopposed in 2006. Florida House of Representatives In 2010, when incumbent State Representative Ralph Poppell could not seek re-election due to term limits, Goodson ran to succeed him in the 29th District, which included Brevard County and Indian River County. In the Republican primary, he narrowly defeated Erin Grall, J. Roger Shealy, and Bob Dale, winning 31% of the vote and defeating Grall, the second-place finisher, by only 280 votes. He was unopposed in the general election. W ...
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Mike Miller (Florida Politician)
Michael Joseph Miller (born May 18, 1968) is an American Republican politician from Florida. He served two terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 47th District, which includes Belle Isle, Edgewood, Orlando, and Winter Park in central Orange County, from 2014 to 2018. He was the Republican nominee for Florida's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election, and lost to incumbent Democrat Stephanie Murphy. Early life and career Miller was born in Washington, D.C., and later moved to Florida, attending the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship. After graduating from college, he worked for Senator Connie Mack III and Representative Ric Keller. He worked on Bill McCollum's 2004 United States Senate campaign, which was ultimately unsuccessful, as his finance director. After leaving the McCollum campaign, Miller worked as a consultant in business development. While working as a consultant, he attended Rollins College, receiving his Master o ...
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Don Hahnfeldt
Don Hahnfeldt (April 29, 1944 – December 24, 2017) was an American politician. Formative years Hahnfeldt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor's degree from Roosevelt University and his master's degrees from Naval Postgraduate School and from Valdosta State University. Hahnfeldt then served in the United States Navy and became a submarine captain. Public service Hahnfeldt lived in The Villages, Florida. After serving on the Sumter County Board of Commissioners from 2012 until 2016, he then served as the Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives for District 33, which includes Sumter County and parts of Lake County and Marion County, Florida Marion County is a county located in the North Central region of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 375,908. Its county seat is Ocala. Marion County comprises the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan S .... Death Hahnfeldt died from cancer at the ag ...
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Jay Metz
Jays are a paraphyletic grouping of passerine birds within the family Corvidae. Although the term "jay" carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few similarities: they are small to medium-sized, usually have colorful feathers and are quite noisy. These superificial characteristics set them apart from most other corvids such as crows, ravens, jackdaws, rooks and magpies, which are larger and have darker plumage. Many so-called "jays" are genetically closer to these other corvids than other jays, however. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into a New World and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to ...
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Jason Brodeur
Jason T. Brodeur is a Florida State Senator representing the 10th district, which consists of Seminole and a small part of Orange County. Before the redistricting that took effect with the 2022 election, he represented the old 9th district. A Republican, Brodeur previously served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018. From 2010-2012, he represented the 33rd District. During his final six years in the Florida House, Brodeur represented the 28th District, which consists of eastern Seminole County. He also served as the president and CEO of the Seminole County Chamber, which advocates for pro-business practices in Seminole County and across the state of Florida. History Brodeur attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a degree in food and resource economics in 1997 and a Masters of Business Administration in 2003 before attending Dartmouth College, where he completed a Master of Public Health Degree. During college, Brodeur particip ...
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Jay Fant
Julian E. "Jay" Fant (born March 28, 1968) is a Republican politician who formerly served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 15th District, which includes parts of downtown Jacksonville in southern Duval County, from 2014 to 2018. Early life, education, and career Fant was born in Jacksonville in 1968 to an established family; the Fant Family first moved to the area in 1920 and started First Guaranty Bank in 1947, which his father later ran. He attended Washington and Lee University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1990, and then the University of Florida College of Law at the University of Florida, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1994. Upon graduation in 1994, Fant returned home and was elected to serve on the board of First Guaranty Bank, and he began managing the operations of the company in 2001. Fant worked in trust administration and corporate management until 2003, when he was named president and chief executive officer of the bank. H ...
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