Women In Politics

Clay County voter forum gets testy
ORANGE PARK — Clay County voters got a look at several of the Republican candidates trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, but they also got a ringside seat as three of the candidates went at it. About 75 people packed into a meeting room at Orange Park Town Hall for the Monday evening forum, which was hosted by the Republican Party of Clay County. The candidates were Mike Yost, Dean Black …

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Brown vs. Brown vs. …. Brown
File this under random observation. Right now, there’s a Democratic primary in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District. That hasn’t happened since 2004. What’s more, this time around will only be U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s third primary contest (not counting the four-way race she won on the road to win the seat back in 1992.) The challenger’s name: Scott Fortune. He’s a Beaches area civil rights …

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Corrine Brown challenger: Skin tone matters, but stories about bare feet and chicken not enough
There was a slightly nervous feeling circulating among the 75 or so people at Monday night’s Congressional District 3 candidates forum when Anthony Paul Penoso, who’s filed on the GOP ticket, said this: To be quite frank and honest with you I don’t think somebody with a lighter skin tone than me will be able to take a district away from a race it was gerrymandered for. It was gerrymandered for …

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Corrine Brown: Commence re-election mode
State Department records show U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., has done the paperwork to get into the race for her own job. She turned in the forms today and paid the $10,440 qualifying fee. That makes it official. Up until last week, Brown had been registered among U.S. Senate candidates after a brief testing of the waters to get into that race. (From the archives:

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