Candidates for US Senate of Florida FL 2012 Election Race

Florida Candidates for Senate 2012

Filing Deadline: June 22, 2012
State Primary: August 28, 2012

U.S. Senator Candidates:

Akinyemi Agbede (R)
Allan Bense (R)
Vern Buchanan (R)
Bill Fisher Jr. (R)
Adam Hasner (R)
Alexander Ilnyckyj (R)
Josue LaRose (R)
George LeMieux (R)
Nick Loeb (R)
Deon Long (R)
Mike McCalister (R)
Ron McNeil (R)
Craig Miller (R)
Mirand Sharma (R)
Bill Nelson (D)
Piotr Blass (Independent)
Lesther Trujillo (Independent)

Florida Candidates for US Congress:

District 7:
John Mica (R)
Bill Kogut (R)
Vipin Verma (D)

District 8:
Daniel Webster (R)
Val Demings (D)
Alan Grayson (D)

District 9:
Gus Bilirakis (R)

District 10:
C.W. "Bill" Young (R)
Charlie Crist (D/Independent)
Ken Welch (D)

District 11:
Kathy Castor (D)
Eddie Adams Jr. (R)
Josh Kiernan (R)
Mark Sharpe (R)

District 12:
Dennis Ross (R)

District 13:
Vern Buchanan (R)

District 14:
Connie Mack IV (R)
Joe Davidow (R)
Chauncey Goss (R)
Timothy John Rossano (R)
James Roach (D)

District 15:
Bill Posey (R)

District 16:
Tom Rooney (R)

District 17:
Frederica Wilson (D)

District 18:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R)
Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins (Independent)

District 19:
Ted Deutch (D)
James Gleason (R)
Joyce Kaufman (R)
W.M. Trout (Independent)

District 20:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
Joe Goldner (R)
Karen Harrington (R)
Joe Kaufman (R)

District 21:
Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

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)

Undefined New Districts:
Karen Diebel (R)
Mike Fasano (R)
Tammy Hall (R)
Paige Kreegel (R)

Florida Senate Information:

Two-term Senator Bill Nelson was reelected with 60% of the vote in 2006. He will be 70 years old in 2012. Nelson will seek re-election. Plant City Republican Mike McCalister has announced his candidacy, as has Florida State Senate Senate President Mike Haridopolos.

Other potential Republican candidates include outgoing Senator George LeMieux, Congressmen Vern Buchanan and Connie Mack IV, and former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner.

A poll conducted in July, 2010 showed Nelson leading LeMieux 49-28% with 23% undecided. Nelson also led former Governor Jeb Bush by a smaller margin of 46-44% with 9% undecided and a margin of error of 3.26%

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Florida History Information - Every Florida Senate Candidate Should Know

According to popular legend, unlikely to be true, Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahama islands.[8] He landed on the east coast of the newly discovered land on April 2. He named the land La Pascua Florida, or "Flowery Easter," probably due to the abundant plant life in the area or to the fact that he arrived during the Spanish Easter feast, Pascua Florida. Jar Openers, Sponges

Ponce de León may not have been the first European to reach Florida, as he claimed he encountered at least one Indian who could speak Spanish [9] Ponce de León returned with equipment and settlers to start a colony in 1521, but they were driven off by repeated attacks from the native population. The earliest records of inland Florida are those of conquest survivors. Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition explored Florida's west coast in 1528 but was lost at sea upon his attempted seaward escape to Mexico. Matches, Children Identification

One of his expedition's officers, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, survived nine years' trudging between Florida and Mexico, returned to Spain and published his observations. He inspired Hernando de Soto's invasion of Florida in 1539. Members of his expedition later published details of Florida's natives, their lifestyles and behavior. In 1559 Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a brief settlement in Pensacola but after a violent hurricane destroyed the area it was abandoned in 1561

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