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Fraternal Order of Police Florida State Lodge 242 Office Plaza, Tallahassee, FL 32301 Ph: (850) 656-9881 • WWW.Floridastate.org November 7, 2012 FLORIDA STATE FOP ELECTION SUMMARY Congratulations to all the Fraternal Order of Police members that put in “Sweat Equity” during these elections. We stayed united with the Unity Table and we have made a huge difference against insurmountable amounts of money. In an attempt at brevity, we will highlight the statewide elections and give you an over-all view of where we are. We should begin at where we started, which was fighting for our lives against big money and a GOP with a 2/3’s majority. The GOP turned their back on law enforcement and took up the cause of our enemies (ALLEC, The Koch Brothers, The Florida Chamber, The National Chamber, The League Of Cities, The Association of Counties, Associated Industries of Florida, The Tea Party). After two years of fighting against them with the UNITY TABLE, we knew that we had to focus our energies and work toward some common goals. 1) Break the 2/3’s majority: We succeeded in both chambers 2) Protect our Court System: We succeeded: The justices were retained and the ballot initiative to give more power to the legislature failed. 3) Protect our state from TABOR: Ballot Initiative 3: We succeeded it failed to pass. 4) Protect our local government tax base: Ballot initiative 4: We succeeded it failed to pass. 5) Support ballot initiatives 2,9, and 11 : We succeeded : They all passed. The Florida Senate The Florida Senate was the only chamber that held fast and stood up for Florida’s citizens instead of corporate greed. There were some heroic Republicans that voted with law enforcement and it was a great cost to them politically. By now everyone knows who these men are, but to say that we had a goal of protecting these Republicans would be an understatement. Of our focused 28 senate races we lost three, and all three were a long shot. We had a success rate of over 85% and have gone a long way towards protecting ourselves from attacks by the legislature. The two most heavily focused senate seats were Senate Seat 14 in Orange County and our candidate Darren Soto won. The other seat was Senate Seat 34 in Palm Beach and Broward County and our candidate Maria Sachs won. Millions of dollars were spent by our opponents on these races, but we have prevailed. We also succeeded in breaking the 2/3’s majority held in the Senate. The Florida House The Florida House of Representatives has been our biggest up-hill battle in defending public safety. We approached these elections with two objectives. One was to break the super majority, which we did. Second was to choose candidates that would stand up for their constituency and not just follow leadership. We did this … regardless of party affiliation. We have been successful, but still have work to do in the House of Representatives. We had right at a 70% success rate in our targeted races and few long shot races that we went all in, and went early…. We had some huge wins, but House Seat 29 was our biggest battle. We endorsed former firefighter Mike Clelland against a designated future Speaker of The House. We went out on a limb, not just because Chris Dorworth was one of our biggest enemies, but because Mike Clelland is a wonderful candidate and a first responder. He is easy to believe in, and he worked hard to take on the establishment. There were numerous attempts to cut back door deals against Mike, but we held strong and loyal. He presently is winning the election and is in a recount. He was up against a million dollars of negative campaigning and has done the FOP and the FPFF proud. We have surpassed our goals. We must stay vigilant and we still have huge battles to fight, but we have come a long way in protecting ourselves. General Election Results Our Endorsed Candidates Florida’s Supreme Court Name Retention. Justice R. Fred Lewis Yes Retained Justice Barbara Pariente Yes Retained Justice Peggy Quince Yes Retained U.S. Senators Name Dist. Party Bill Nelson D Won U.S. Representatives Name Dist. Party Demings, Val 10 D Lost Deutch, Ted 21 D Won Diaz-Balart, Mario 25 R Won Ros-Lehtinen, Ilena 27 R Won Florida Senators Name Dist. Party Evers, Greg 2 R Won Montford, Bill 4 D Won Soderberg,Nancy 4 D Lost Bruno, Frank 8 D Lost Gibson, Audrey 9 D Won Thompson, Geraldine 12 D Won Soto, Darren 14 D Won Altman, Thad 16 R Won Legg, John 17 R Won Simpson, Wilton 18 R Won Latvala, Jack 20 R Won McCland,Stacy Anderson 21 D Lost Lee,Tom 24 R Won Abruzzo, Joseph 25 D Won Clemens, Jeff 27 D Won Ring, Jeremy 29 D Won Smith, Christopher 31 D Won Sobel, Eleanor 33 D Won Sach, Maria 34 D Won Margolis, Gwen 35 D Won Bullard, Dwight 39 D Won Florida Representatives Name Dist. Party Ford, C. V. 2 R Won Coley, Marti 5 R Won Rehwinkel, Michelle 9 D Won Ray, Lake 12 R Won Jones, Mia 14 D Won Watson, Jr., Clovis 20 D Won Morey, Andrew 21 D Lost Holland, Milissa 24 D Lost Clelland, Mike 29 D Won Dentel, Karen Castor 30 D Won Argenziano, Nancy 34 NPA Lost Fasano, Mike 36 R Won McKeel, Seth 40 R Won Game, Eileen 42 D Lost Antone, Bruce 46 D Won Stewart, Linda 47 D Won Goodson, Tom 50 R Won Alvarez, John Paul 53 D Lost Raburn, Jake 57 R Won Raulerson, Don 58 R Won Spano, Ross 59 R Won Reed, Betty 61 D Won Cruz, Janet 62 D Won Harrison, Shawn 63 R Lost Zimmerman, Carl 65 D Won Hooper, Ed 67 R Won Dudley, Dwight 68 D Won Shulman, Josh 69 D Lost Pilon, Ray 72 R Won Eagle, Dane 77 R Won Pafford, Mark 86 D Won Kerner, Dave 87 D Won Powell, Bobby 88 D Won Gustafson, Tom 89 D Lost Berman, Lori 90 D Won Capotosto, Gerri 93 D Lost Thurston, J. Perry 94 D Won Moskowitz, Jared 97 D Won Edwards, Katie 98 D Won Schwartz, Elaine 99 D Won Gibbons, Joseph 100 D Won Pritchett, Sharon 102 D Won Watson, Barbara 107 D Won Stafford, Cynthia 109 D Won Diaz de la Portilla, Alex 112 R Lost Solomon, Jeffrey 115 D Lost McGhee, Kionne 117 D Won Whitney, Ian 120 D Lost Some elections were decided in the primary Keep the FOP’s legislative efforts going strong by clicking on the Make a Donation button today!!!.

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