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Want To Run For Public Office In Escambia County, Century Or Pensacola? This Is Qualifying Week.
June 12, 2022
Want to run for public office this year in Escambia County, Century, or Pensacola? This is qualifying week.
Candidates begin qualifying for the 2022 Primary and General elections at noon Monday, June 13, according to the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office. Qualifying will run through noon on Friday, June 17.
Local candidates will qualify in the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office located at 213 Palafox Place on the 2nd Floor. In addition, a qualifying officer from the Supervisor of Elections Office will be at Century Town Hall on Wednesday, June 15 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. to accept qualifying paperwork from Century council candidates.
Local offices that will appear on the 2022 ballot in Escambia County are:
Escambia County Commission – Partisan
Escambia County Commissioner District 2 and 4
Escambia School Board – Nonpartisan
Escambia School Board Member District 1, 2 and 3
Special Districts – Partisan
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority District 2, 4
Special Districts – Nonpartisan
Santa Rosa Island Authority
Escambia Soil and Water Conservation District
Groups 2 and 4 (and Group 3 for 2 year term)
Town of Century – Nonpartisan
Town Council Seats 3, 4 and 5
City of Pensacola – Nonpartisan
Mayor
City Council District 2, 4 and 6
Judicial – Nonpartisan
County Court Judge Groups 1 and 3
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4 Responses to “Want To Run For Public Office In Escambia County, Century Or Pensacola? This Is Qualifying Week.”
On the county’s requirement that county employees and contract employees resign-to-run, it is worth pointing out that the BCC asserts it has the power to expand its ordinance to “any” elected office. As example, the BCC claims that it can force a corrections officer to resign if they want to run to be the Sheriff, etc. The BCC did for now scale back its original concept to only commission seats. Commissioner Barry said it best, “It would see like the real potential negative effect is when it is our seats.” Chairman Bergosh said the county ordinance was “vetted by the lawyers” and is similar to other laws that are “ubiquitous” throughout the state. The agenda item included no memorandum of law saying that the law was lawful and there was no listing of similar county laws in the state. I remain surprised that the county’s collective bargaining units did not file a lawsuit against the county asking the court to declare the ordinance unlawful. The county law does appear in direct violation of one state law (Section 104.31) as was noted by Commissioner Underhill. Further, the legislative intent of the law also appears contrary to a state law (Section 99.012) that the Florida Attorney General has advised preempts local governments from adopting their own laws to force local government employees to resign-to-run. Basically, the BCC asserts that “it” has the power to preempt state law. It does not. The BCC really is a lawless mob.
If you work for the county and get caught running for office, do you get fired? I really would like to see some Escambia County employee lose their job because they decided to run for office, just so I can see how that rule gets challenged in court.
Quit your job and take your chance.
Remember, all Escambia county employees are banned from running from office, unless you give up your livelihood…..