Florida's 6th Congressional District
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We'd like to reach out to any of you Kossacks from Florida's 6th Congressional District for information. Feel free to add your understanding of the communities, issues, etc.
What issues directly affect people in Florida's 6th Congressional District? My colleague Augustin and I are working on the Knowledge Democrats project and I've started working on a wiki page for the 6th Congressional congressional district in order to assist in our long term efforts to promote progressive candidates in that district, whether at the local, state or federal level. We understand this district may in fact have a bit conservative constituency but we're looking to reach out to any Kossacks, Democrats or progressives in the state anyway. It helps for long-term planning.
We also plan on contacting Local and State Democratic Parties that cover each of the Congressional districts for more information. We first want to know what thoughts any of you Kossacks have.
We also know that the current representative of the district is Ron DeSantis, who appears to be expecting way too much out of President Obama on Iran and seems to think he could be pushed around by other countries.
Here are the 2012 election results:
U.S. House, Florida, District 6 General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Democratic Heather Beaven 42.8% 146,489
Republican Ron DeSantis 57.2% 195,962
Total Votes: 342,451
Source: http://ballotpedia.org/...
(Florida Secretary of State Election Results not available)