Tag: Profession (religious)

Because according to stalwart PNJ political reporter Jim Little, the race for District 2 of the Florida House of Representatives is the only open Republican primary for a state-level office in the entire state of Florida. More: Pensacola Statehouse race only open state-level Republican primary in Florida As Little explained in his story last week, “under state law, Florida's party primaries are closed unless all candidates in a race are from the same party and there is no declared write-in candidate.” And since no Democrats or write-ins registered to run for Florida House District 2 (which bundles Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, the city of Pensacola, Myrtle Grove, Warrington and Perdido Key), all you pot-smokin’ peaceniks get to pick between Alex Andrade and Greg Merk, the two Republicans running to replace Frank White, the current state representative who is now a candidate for Florida attorney general. Black folks and brown folks. It’s a beautiful and complex district and there’s no simple way to categorize or label the folks who live in it. In Florida? Nobody throughout the rest of Florida knows who Frank White is. Folks throughout the rest of Florida still won’t know who Frank White is. Frank wants to fight the "liberal elite." And White’s campaign messaging is embarrassingly and obviously lacking in both. It's a chance for folks back home to get better.