Alexander N. Green is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Texas's 9th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party,Green served as the justice of the peace of Harris County,Texas from 1977 to 2004. The 9th district includes most of southwestern Houston and part of Fort Bend County,including most of Missouri City. It also includes western portions of Pearland.
John Wayne Mixson was an American politician and farmer in Florida who served as the 12th lieutenant governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987,and as the 39th governor of Florida for three days in January 1987. Mixson served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1967 to 1978 prior to being elected as lieutenant governor. He was a lifelong conservative Democrat,and though he served in the Florida legislature and as Florida's lieutenant governor as a member of that party,he supported a mix of Democratic and Republican candidates for various state and national offices after retiring from elected office.
The 2006 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 7,2006. Incumbent Republican Governor Jeb Bush was term-limited,and could not run for reelection to a third consecutive term. The election was won by then-Republican Charlie Crist,the state's Attorney General. The election was notable in that for the first time,the state elected a Republican governor in three consecutive elections.
The Florida Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Florida,headquartered in Tallahassee. Former Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried is the current chair.
New York's 23rd congressional district is located in Upstate New York,and covers part of Buffalo's Northtowns,all of the Southtowns,and much of the Southern Tier. The district includes two of the eleven Finger Lakes:Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake.
Loranne Ausley is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Tallahassee,Florida. She served as a member of the Florida Senate from 2020 until her defeat in 2022,representing Calhoun,Franklin,Gadsden,Gulf,Hamilton,Jefferson,Leon,Liberty,Madison,Taylor,and Wakulla Counties. Previously,she represented the Tallahassee area in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and then again from 2016 to 2020. Ausley was defeated for re-election in 2022 by Republican Corey Simon.
Andrew Demetric Gillum is an American former politician who served as the 126th mayor of Tallahassee,Florida,from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Tallahassee city commissioner from 2003 until 2014,first elected at the age of 23.
Alfred James Lawson Jr. is an American businessman and politician who was the U.S. representative for Florida's 5th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. The district,which was eliminated following redistricting during the 2022 Florida legislative session,stretched across most of the border with Georgia,including most of the majority-black areas between Tallahassee and Jacksonville. Lawson challenged fellow Congressman Neal Dunn in the newly redrawn 2nd congressional district,which pitted them against each other in Lawson's home city. Lawson won the Democratic primary unopposed,and lost to Dunn in the general election.
Evan Boyd Jenne is an American Democratic politician who had served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 99th District,which included most of Hollywood in southern Broward County,from 2014 to 2022. Previously,Jenne represented the 100th District,which stretched from Dania Beach to Pembroke Pines in southern Broward County,from 2006 to 2012. Jenne has been co-leader under Broward colleague Bobby DuBose as House minority leader for the 2020–2022 Legislature.
Rubén Jesús Kihuen Bernal is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives for Nevada's 4th congressional district,serving from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously was a member of the Nevada Senate from 2006 to 2016. He was Nevada's first Latino member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Kihuen described himself as the first "Dreamer" elected to Congress. In December 2017,House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on Kihuen to resign in response to sexual misconduct allegations against him by a female campaign staff member,as reported by BuzzFeed. He refused to resign but did not run for reelection in 2018.
Jack Latvala is a Republican politician from Florida. He represented the Pinellas County area in the Florida Senate from 1994 to 2002,and again from 2010 to 2018.
Alan B. Williams is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2008 to 2016,representing a district based in Gadsden County and Tallahassee in Leon County. Williams is currently deputy assistant secretary of housing and urban development for congressional and intergovernmental relations.
Steve Lebsock is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 34th district as a member of the Democratic and Republican parties from 2013 until his expulsion in 2018. Prior to his tenure in the state house he served on the city council in Thornton,Colorado from 2003 to 2011.
Richard Michael Corcoran is an American politician who served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. A Republican,Corcoran represented the 37th district,which includes central Pasco County,from 2012 to 2018,and previously represented the 45th district from 2010 to 2012. From 2019 to 2022,Corcoran served as the state's education commissioner. In 2023,he became president of the New College of Florida.
Neal Patrick Dunn is an American surgeon and Republican Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
Michael Zabel is an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 163rd district from 2019 to 2023.
Jason Shoaf is an American politician serving as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 7th district,which includes Franklin,Gulf,Jefferson,Dixie,Suwannee,Hamilton,Lafayette,Liberty,Taylor,and Wakulla Counties,and part of Leon County. He was first elected in a 2019 special election.
Gallop P. Franklin II is an American politician and pharmacist serving as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 8th district. He assumed office on November 8,2022. Gallop is the son of Margaret Franklin and Gallop Franklin Sr. He is married to Chelsea Matthews Franklin.
