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Here Are The Local Candidates That Qualified For The 2020 Ballot. And Those Automatically Elected.
June 13, 2020
Noon Friday was the deadline for local candidates to qualify to appear on the 2020 ballot.
Primaries are open — with voters from all parties voting — if there is not a candidate that qualified from both parties or a write-in candidate that declared. The Escambia County Commission District 5 primary, for instance, will be open to all voters because there are only Republican candidates.
In races where only one candidate qualified, that person was automatically elected. That means two Escambia County school board members, the property appraiser, supervisor of elections and one incumbent Century council member were elected Friday.
The primary election in August 18, and the general election is November 3.
Here are the candidates that will appear on the ballot:
Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller
- Pamela Lynn Chiders – R – incumbent
- Chase Anderson “Andy” Romagnano – write-in
Sheriff
- David Alexander III – D
- Chip Simmons – R
Property Appraiser
- Chris Jones – D – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
Tax Collector
- Scott Lunsford – R – incumbent
- Wendy Rich – NPA
Supervisor of Elections
- David Stafford – R – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
County Commission District 1 (Open Primary)
- Jeff Bergosh – R – incumbent
- Jesse Casey – R
- Jonathan Owens – R
- Jimmie Trotter – R
County Commission District 3
- Jason Laird – write-in, won’t appear on ballot
- Lumon May – D – incumbent
- LuTimothy May Sr. – D
County Commission District 5 (Open Primary)
- Steven Barry – R – incumbent
- John Reading – R
- Meagan Walters – R
ECUA District 1
(Open Primary)
- Debra Brusso – R
- Vicki H. Campbell – R – incumbent
ECUA District 3
- John R. Johnson – NPA
- Ellison Bennett – D
- Clorissti Bernie-Shoemo – D
- Eric L. Jordan Sr. – D
- Ashley McDonald – D
- Larry Williams – D
- Pueschel Schneier – R
ECUA District 5
(Open Primary)
- Kevin Stephens – R
- Larry Walker – R – incumbent
The following offices are non-partisan.
Town of Century Mayor
- Benjamin D. Boutwell
- Henry Hawkins – incumbent
Town of Century Council Seat 1
- Ann C. Brooks – incumbent
- Calvin Cottrell Jr.
- Dynette Lewis
Town of Century Council Seat 2
- Luis Gomez Jr. – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
Town of Century Council Seat 3
- Shelisa Dorshae McCall
- Leonard B. White
Escambia County Soil and Water Conservation District, Group 1
- Matt Sharpsteen
- Betty Wilson – incumbent
Escambia County Soil and Water Conservation District, Group 3
- Catherine Monroe-Dismuke – elected with no opposition
Escambia County Soil and Water Conservation District, Group 5
- Louis A. Toth –elected with no opposition
Escambia County Judge, Group 2
- Charles Young – elected with no opposition
Escambia County School Board District 4
- Patty Hightower – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
Escambia County School Board District 5
- Bill Slayton – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
Santa Rosa Island Authority
- Thomas A. Campanella – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
Pensacola City Council District 1
- Jennifer Brahier
- P.C. Wu – incumbent
Pensacola City Council District 3
- Casey Jones – elected with no opposition
Pensacola City Council District 5
- Teniade Broughton
- Ron Helms
Pensacola City Council District 7
- Brenton Goodman
- James L. Gulley
- Delarian Wiggins
FEDERAL, STATE AND JUDICIAL CANDIDATES
These are the federal, state and judicial candidates in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
U.S. Representative House District 1
- Phil Ehr – D
- Matt Gaetz – R – incumbent
- Greg Merk – R
- John Mills – R
- Albert Oram – NPA
State Attorney
- Ginger Bowden Madden – R – elected with no opposition
Public Defender
- Bruce A. Miller – R – incumbent, reelected with no opposition
State Senator District 1
- Douglas V. Broxson – R – incumbent
- Karen M. Butler – D
State Representative House District 1
- Mike Hill – R – incumbent
- Michelle Salzman – R
- Franscine C. Mathis – D
- Barbara Scott-Shouse – D
State Representative House District 2
- Alex Andrade – R – incumbent
- Cris Dosev – R
- Dianne Krumel – D
State Representative House District 3
- Angela L. Hoover – D
- Jayer Williamson – R – incumbent
Comments
11 Responses to “Here Are The Local Candidates That Qualified For The 2020 Ballot. And Those Automatically Elected.”
Steven C Milsteen Sr – I completely agree! I’ve been frustrated not being able to find ANY info on majority of the candidates! I’m having to research their Facebook page to see if they have any details about them or what their plan is!
Support the complaints about the difficulty in finding information about candidates. The League of Women Voters do a good job, but their information is hard to find.
On the weekend while researching in preparation to cast my ballot , I found zero information regarding either of the candidates for District 1 —soil and water conservation! I gave up and will not vote for either one of them! Knowing that there would be early voting and mail in voting, they neglected to make sure voters could find and read about their qualifications, their point of view, or any reason someone should vote for them!
Ok, so I have found hardly anything on Franscine Mathis or Barbara Scott-Schouse, however, I have at least found that Mathis has a FB page for her campaign. The ONLY thing I found for Schouse was a mugshot from a drinking and driving arrest a couple years ago. Lol.
Mr. Cause III is correct, all candidates should post their policies on websites or other media. We are too often left making decisions based on so little information.
I agree with most of these comments!
My wife and I moved down here last year from Acworth, Georgia and really don’t know much about these candidates. I have spent the past few days digging around, and I must say it’s never been this hard for me to find so little information. It would be nice if these people running for office would publish their policy positions (as a minimum) on a campaign website…shouldn’t we all find this concerning?
This list is practically the only information I’ve been able to find about candidates this election season. Unless you’re willing to suss out financial filings, campaign contributions, and/or hunt down his/ her appearance calendars, its next to impossible to learn much about any given candidate.
Before you say, “well just go to the campaign website,” most don’t have one. LuTimothy May only has a Facebook page listing a bunch of endorsements, for example; however, I need to know ppolicy positions, see a candidate actually listens to constituents (or does some kind of direct outreach), and actually lives here (no carpetbaggers, and name recognition alone isn’t good enough). I emailed the District 3 website directly to try and get around bugging candidates and never heard back, so that was a dead end too.
I’ve made out my ballot as best I can, but frankly its pathetic that constituents have to really hunt to make an informed decision. Good on NorthEscambia.com though– y’all did better than PNJ. They have a similar list but its behind a paywall, and this information needs to be free and easily accessible for the public. Plus, I appreciate having focus directly on the area I live in rather than a bunch of native advertising and push pieces shoved in my face.
I would like to know how the candidates expect to get elected when no information is available. Barbara Scott-Shouse (DEM) doesn’t seem to have any information anywhere that I can tell. I have been able to find information on candidates that would help me make a decision but nothing on this candidate. if I am wrong then I apologize but direct me to the information
It makes no sense to remove incumbents that have done a good job. Sure, vote out the incumbents who have accomplished nothing, but I don’t support wholesale removal of all incumbents because of the ones that don’t do their jobs. Keep the good ones in! Vote with common sense.
I feel that Steven Barry has done a wonderful job for District 5 and has my respect and vote.
Remove incumbents from office, not historical monuments from parks. Send the incumbents home.