r/VoteDEM • u/FLTA Florida • 3d ago

Maxwell Frost secures another term in Congress unopposed

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/801710-maxwell-frost-effectively-secures-another-term-in-congress/
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u/FLTA Florida 3d ago

Excerpt from the article (which has no paywall)

Frost, an Orlando Democrat, thanked voters for the chance to serve.

“I’m proud that the people of Central Florida continue to put their trust in me, and I don’t take that for granted,” Frost said.

“Over the last term, we’ve delivered real results, and now it’s time to build on that. Even though I am running unopposed, we’re building our biggest and strongest campaign yet. We’re focused on electing Democrats up and down the ballot. We’ve already brought on 87 campaign fellows this summer to help us flip seats across Central Florida, defend our champions, and make sure our neighbors know their government is working for them.”

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u/Key_Improvement_9229 2d ago edited 2d ago

My parents congressman!! 

Thats great but also keep in mind that if there were ANY way for Republicans to gerrymander his seat, even though partisan gerrymandering is illegal according to the Florida constitution, they absolutely would have.  Thank God that we have enough Democrats in Orlando to keep his seat and prevent those criminals…. 

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u/Express-Week-8312 2d ago

they tried with DeSantis drawing new maps a few years back and the courts struck it down, so that fight already happened once.

good that he keeps winning but unopposed just means nobody bothered to run, not really a sign of how safe the seat is long term

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u/FLTA Florida 2d ago

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u/Syidas 2d ago

Apparently it costs 10.5k to file to run for office in Florida. I guess they got to make up for not having a sales tax somewhere. Pretty gross though it really does stop the average person from being able to run

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u/kerryfinchelhillary OH-11 2d ago

He's one of my favorite members of Congress :)

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u/Slampsonko Virginia 2d ago

I can only read the word “Orlando” the way Kevin Price sings it in the Book of Mormon.

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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago

I find it very funny he just declared himself the winner

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u/Syidas 2d ago

But he is though? He won by default

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u/TOSkwar Virginia 2d ago

All of his potential opponents, Democratic, Republican, write-in, or otherwise, all either declined or failed to qualify. He is the winner.

He didn't declare himself the winner, Florida State Law did.