Republicans keep House seat in Florida special election, with David Jolly receiving 88,2914 votes, 48.5%, Alex Sink receiving 84,877, 46.6% and Libertarian candidate Lucas Overby receiving 8,799, 4.8% of the vote. Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink, who conceded the race more than an hour after the polls closed. The outcome does not change anything for Democrats in their calculus for retaking the House in next Novembers midterms. They still need to pick up 17 seats. Jolly served as a former general counsel for former Congressman Bill Young and also worked as a lobbyist. This special election was held due to the death of Congressman C.W. Bill Young who died on October 18, 2013 from a chronic injury at age 82. Young died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized with back problems stemming from a 1970 small plane crash. On Oct. 9, Mr. Young, who represented the 13th Congressional District, is a district in the Tampa Bay area, announced from his hospital bed that he would not seek another term in 2014, he died just nine days later. Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress and a Republican hawk on military spending during his 43 years in Washington, died Friday in Bethesda, Md. He was 82. Bill Young was the longest serving Republican member of the house.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:42:39 +0000
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