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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:00 PM Jun 2020

Democrats recruit candidates for all state House, Senate races

For the first time in at least 20 years, it would appear Florida Democrats are going to field candidates in all 140 state legislative races.

Among recent filers are challengers to powerful Republican incumbents Sen. Travis Hutson of St. Augustine and Rep. Tom Leek of Ormond Beach.

Hutson, who chairs an appropriations subcommittee on transportation, tourism and economic development, will be on the ballot opposite Heather Hunter, a 22-year-old recent Flagler College graduate who interned with the Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida and lives in Tallahassee.

And in Florida House District 25 — where Leek is completing his second two-year term as chair of the House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee — Libertarian Joe Hannoush will be joined on the ballot by Sarah Zutter, 22, of Port Orange. She is a recent graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who’s been politically active since 2016.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/06/05/democrats-recruit-candidates-all-state-house-senate-races/3158131001/

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