Florida Agenda » Palm Beach County Human Rights Council http://floridaagenda.com Florida Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender News and Entertainment from FloridaAgenda.com Your LGBT News Authority Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:16:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Voter’s Guide 2010 Elections http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/28/voter%e2%80%99s-guide-2010-elections/ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/28/voter%e2%80%99s-guide-2010-elections/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:03:06 +0000 FAdmin http://floridaagenda.com/?p=2197 Equality Florida, based in St. Petersburg, has made their recommendations for the upcoming General Election to be held on November 2, 2010. Equality Florida was founded in 1997 and is one of the the state’s largest civil rights organizations dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s LGBT community. Equality Florida has stated that additional recommendations may be made as election day approaches.

In addition to Equality Florida (EF), several other voter’s groups have made recommendations. The additional groups include: Palm Beach County Nonpartisan Voters Coalition (VC), SAVE Dade Action Pac (SD) and Palm Beach County Human Rights Council (PB).

Below is a list of the recommendations. Please note that not all organizations have made recommendations in all races and just because a recommendation isn’t noted, this doesn’t mean that the represented organizations are opposed to the particular candidates or won’t make an additional future recommendations.

United States Senate: Charlie Crist (I) VC

United States Senate: Kendrick Meek (D) SD, PB

U.S. House District 16: Tom Rooney (R) VC,

U.S. House District 18: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) SD

U.S. House District 19: Ted Deutch (D) VC, PB

U.S. House District 20: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) SD

U.S. House District 22: Ron Klein (D) VC, PB

U.S. House District 23: Alcee Hastings (D) VC, PB

U.S. House District 25: Joe Garcia (D) SD

Governor: Alex Sink (D) EF, VC, SD, PB

Attorney General: Dan Gelber (D) EF, VC, SD, PB

Chief Financial Officer: Loranne Ausley (D) EF, SD

Chief Financial Officer: Jeff Atwater (R) VC, PB

Agriculture Commissioner: Scott Maddox (D) EF, SD, PB

Agriculture Commissioner:  Adam Putnam(R) VC

Senate District 25: Kelly Skidmore (D) EF, VC, PB

Senate District 27: Kevin Rader (D) EF, VC, PB

Senate District 35: Gwen Margolis (D) EF, SD

Senate District 38: Les Gerson (D) SD

House District 7: David Pleat (D) EF

House District 9: Michelle Vasilinda (D) EF

House District 24: Michael Hageloh (D) EF

House District 30: Amy Tidd (D) EF

House District 31: Jodi James (D) EF

House District 33:  Leo Cruz (D) EF

House District 35: Amy Mercado (D) EF

House District 36:  Scott Randolph (D) EF

House District 40: Todd Christian (D) EF

House District 41: Lee Douglas (D) EF

House District 44: Diane Rowden (D) EF

House District 49: Soto (D) EF

House District 51: Janet Long (D) EF

House District 53:  Rick Kriseman (D) EF

House District 57: Stacy Frank (D) EF

House District 60: Russ Patterson (D) EF

House District 69: Keith Fitzgerald (D) EF

House District 83: Pat Rooney (R) VC

House District 83:  Mark Marciano(D) PB

House District 84:  Mackenson Bernard (D) EF, VC, PB

House District 85:  Joseph Abruzzo(D) EF, VC, PB

House District 87:  Bill Hager (R) VC

House District 87: Hava Holzhauer (D) PB

House District 88: Mark Pafford (D) VC, PB

House District 89: Jeff Clemens (D) EF, VC, PB

House District 90: Irv Slosberg (D) EF, VC, PB

House District 91:  Barabara Stern (D) EF, PB

House District 95: James Waldman (D) EF

House District 96:  Ari Porth (D) EF

House District 98: Franklin Sands (D) EF

House District 100:  Evan Jenne (D) EF

House District 107:  Luis Garcia (D) EF, SD

House District 112:  Sandra Ruiz (D) EF, SD

House District 114: Millie Herrera (D) EF, SD

House District 115: Jeffrey Soloman (D) EF

House District 118: Dwight Bullard (D) EF, SD

House District 120: Ron Saunders (D) EF

Alachua County School Board, District 1: Rick Nesbit EF,

Broward County Commission District 4:  Ken Keechl (D) EF,

Broward Co. Commission District 6:  Sue Gunzburger (D) EF,

Broward County School Board, District 4: Dave Thomas

Broward County School Board, District 6: Phyllis Hope

Hillsborough Co. Commission District 1:  John Dingfelder (D) EF,

Hillsborough Co. Comm. District 5: Linda Saul-Sena (D) EF,

Hillsborough County School Board, District 6: April Griffin

Leon County Commission, District 1: John ’Corri’ Byrne (D) EF,

Leon County Commission, At Large: Cliff  Thaell (D) EF,

Miami-Dade County Commission, District 8: Eugene Flinn SD

Palm Beach County Commission District 2:  Sherry Lee (R) VC

Palm Beach Co. Comm., District 2:  Paulette Burdick (D) PB

Palm Beach Co. Comm. District 6:  Jess Santamaria(D) VC, PB

Palm Beach Co. Comm. District 7:  Priscilla Taylor (D) VC, PB

Palm Beach School Board District 3: Bill Graham VC, PB

Palm Beach School Board Dist. 4: Jennifer Prior Brown VC, PB

Palm Beach School Board District 6:  Dean Eric Grossman VC

Palm Beach School Board District 6:  Marcia Andrews PB

Pinellas County Commission District 4: Susan Latvala (D) EF

Pinellas County School Board, District 7: James Jackson

Volusia County Commission, At Large:  Joyce Cusack (D) EF,

Amendment 1 (Public Campaign Financing): YES VC,

Amendment 2 (Homestead Tax Credit):  YES VC,

Amendment 4 (Comp. Land Use Plans):  NO VC,

Amend. 5 (Legislative Redistrict):  YES EF, VC, PB

Amend. 6 (Congressional Redistrict):  YES EF, VC, PB

Amendment 8: (Class Size Requirements): YES VC

Early voting is underway. Check with your county election board for early voting polling places and times. The general election will be held on November 2, 2010.

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