The Lake County Democratic Party is excited about its record-number of Democratic candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Nancy Hurlbert 352-483-4962 [email protected]

June 26, 2018

TAVARES, Fla. – The Lake County Democratic Party is excited about its record-number of

Democratic candidates fielded for both the Primary and General elections. "It has been a long

time since the Democratic Party had a Primary in Lake County and now we have four primary

contests," said Nancy Hurlbert, Chair of the local Party.

Six Democrats – 3 in each of two districts – are running in the Primary for U.S. Congress. In

Congressional District 6, Stephen Sevigny, Nancy Soderberg and John Upchurch will be on the

August 28th Primary ballot, as will Kristen Carlson, Andrew Learned and Raymond Pena in

Congressional District 15.

For FL Senate, District 22, Democrats Robert Doyel and Ricardo Rangel are on the Primary

ballot. Similarly, Cynthia Brown and Sheryl Cohn are vying in the FL House, District 32 Primary

race.

“Not only do we have Primary contests this year, we have many Democrats contesting seats in

the November General Election,” said Hurlbert.

Dana Cottrell will be running to unseat Daniel Webster in U.S. House, District 11; Gary

McKechnie to unseat Dennis Baxley in the FL Senate, District 12; Debra Kaplan to unseat

Jennifer Sullivan in the FL House, District 31; and Oren Miller to fill the open seat in FL House,

District 33.

Democrats are running in all four seats on the Lake County Water Authority – Jeremy Norton,

Alan Harris, Susan Fetter and Doug Bryant.

For the North Lake Hospital Board, Mary Kay Rozinski won Seat 4 unopposed. Seat 5 will be

contested in November by B. (Belita) Grassel.

“It is a wonderful year to be a Democrat,” said Hurlbert. “We are looking forward to a blue wave

in Lake County, in Florida and nationally!”