TU: Candidates for vacant Florida Senate seat attend forum, voice opinions on issues

Hmmmm how do they get to do something like this in a church?????
By Matt Dixon

The four Democratic candidates who qualified to run in the special election to fill Tony Hill’s vacated state Senate seat held a forum Wednesday night at New Life Cathedral Baptist Church.

The race features two political veterans in former state Reps. Terry Fields and Audrey Gibson, and Ramon Day, Leandrew Mills, and Andrea Austin, three candidates who have never held public office.

Austin, a write-in candidate, did not attend the event.

Issues from accountability, job creation and education were touched upon during the roughly hour long question-and-answer session.

Mills said there are four staples in life: Food, water, shelter and education.

“If you have education, you will always be able to get the others,” said Mills, who said there should be no more cuts to public education.”

Each candidate was asked about the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which provides scholarships that allow low income students to attend private schools. The program is funded through corporate contributions that earn tax credits for donor businesses.

None of the candidates said the state-imposed cap of $175 million on the program should be raised.

“I don’t think the cap should be raised when we are cutting public education,” Gibson said.



Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-08-24/story/candidates-va...

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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 27, 2011 at 1:26pm

Rod went to this event and he did say they handled it very carefully and unobjectionably.

 

Comment by J. Crosby on August 27, 2011 at 12:18pm
Funny, if politics are talked about in most religious facilities, other than democratic issues, they would certainly be challenged regarding their tax status.  But, it doesn't seem to happen if the event is featuring a Democratic speaker or even if the preacher is preaching from the pulpit about promoting Democrats.  Not that I am aware of this particular church being mostly Democratic, but why aren't these types of events challenged?

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