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Manatee Commission races set, with six-way race to fill Carol Felts’ seat and Tara Poulton leading District 6 money race
Qualifying also locked in the School Board ballot, leaving Chad Choate set to return to the board without opposition. The post Manatee Commission races set, with six-way race to fill Carol Felts’ seat and Tara Poulton leading District 6 money race appeared first on Florida Polit…
The race for the seat left empty by the late Carol Ann Felts is now a six-way Republican scramble — a District 1 field that includes “lectern guy” Adam Johnson alongside a slate of local names — while Tara Poulton leads the money race in the countywide District 6 contest to succeed at-large Commissioner Jason Bearden , and incumbents Amanda Ballard and Mike Rahn head into GOP Primaries of their own.
Qualifying closed this week with contested Republican Primaries in all four County Commission races on Manatee County’s local ballot. …
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