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Protecting Your Vote and Why Primaries are Important – July 11, 2024 Terri Kondos, LWVMC Voter Services Action Team Chair reviews recent legal changes and how it impacts your voting, how to protect your vote to assure you can vote and it counts, and why voting in primaries, and this particular primary, is important to you, the community and democracy.
CANDIDATE FORUMS
Tiger Bay House of Representatives District 72 Primary Candidate Forum (Republicans) on June 13
Candidates: William “Bill” Conerly, Alyssa Gay, Richard Green, Richard Tatem.
Lakewood Ranch Republican Party Supervisor of Elections Candidate Forum on June 19, 2024 with Scott Farrington and James Satcher. Program starts at 26 minutes. It is followed by Republican Committee Women candidate forum. Only Republicans can vote in either of these two elections.
League of Women Voters of Manatee County Commissioner District 1 Candidate Forum on July 16, 2024 with Jen Hamey, Glenn Pearson and Carol Ann Felts was scheduled but had an emergency (parts of her responses from the voters guides were read so viewers could get their positions). Candidate Steven Metallo did not respond.
League of Women Voters of Manatee County Commissioner District 7 Candidate Forum on July 31 with Sari A. Lindroos-Valimaki (D) George W. Kruse (R). Candidate Van Ostenbridge (R) did not respond.
Tiger Bay School Board Candidate Forum (Districts 1 and 3) on June 13
Candidates: District 1 candidates Heather Felton, Alex Garner and Mark Stanoch.
District 3 Candidates Charles Kennedy, Jonathan Lynch and Perri Ann Parkman.