Here are all of the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board’s endorsements for the Nov. 3 general election ballot in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties. Click on the highlighted name to read our recommendation.
The races may appear in a slightly different order than on your ballot. This is how we’ve listed them: federal; state, including the courts and constitutional amendments; Broward County races, including the courts and charter questions; Palm Beach County races, including the courts; then municipal races.
Though 20 Broward cities are holding municipal elections, manpower issues forced us to limit our focus to cities with more than 100,000 population — Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Pompano Beach. We added Hallandale Beach for good measure.
We do not offer endorsements in races where a named candidate faces only a write-in challenger (whose name does not appear on the ballot,) as in the Broward public defender’s race.
With mail-in ballots now in the field, we will publish a summary box of our endorsements in the newspaper every Sunday. During Early Voting and again on Election Day, we will publish our summary box daily.
— Rosemary O’Hara, editorial page editor, can be reached at rohara@sunsentinel.com.
FEDERAL
PRESIDENT: Joe Biden
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
District 20: Alcee Hastings
District 21: Lois Frankel
District 22: Ted Deutch
District 23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz
STATE
FLORIDA SENATE:
District 29: Tina Polsky
District 31: Lori Berman
FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
District 81: Kelly Skidmore
District 88: Omari Hardy
District 89: Mike Caruso
District 91: Emily Slosberg
District 92: Patricia Hawkins-Williams
District 93: Chip LaMarca
District 101: Marie Woodson
District 103: Cindy Polo
District 104: Robin Bartleman
District 105: Maureen Porras
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT
Retain Justice Carlos G. Muniz? NO
FLORIDA APPEALS COURT, District 4
Retain Judge Alan O. Forst? NO
Retain Judge Mark W. Klingensmith? NO
Retain Judge Martha C. Warner? YES
FLORIDA CONSTITUTION:
Amendment 1: NO
Amendment 2: YES
Amendment 3: YES
Amendment 4: NO
Amendment 5: YES
Amendment 6: YES
BROWARD COUNTY
BROWARD STATE ATTORNEY:
BROWARD SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS:
BROWARD SCHOOL BOARD, District 9:
BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF:
BROWARD CIRCUIT COURT, Group 16:
BROWARD COUNTY CHARTER QUESTIONS:
Question 1: YES
Question 2: NO
BROWARD SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT:
District 5: Fred Segal
PALM BEACH COUNTY:
PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION, District 3:
PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION, District 5:
PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION, District 7:
PALM BEACH COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR:
PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF:
PALM BEACH CIRCUIT COURT, Group 30:
PALM BEACH COUNTY SOIL and WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT:
District 2: Ann Marie Sorrell
District 3: Jon E. Shaw
District 4: Rob Long
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS:
CORAL SPRINGS:
Seat 3: Jose “Joe” Morera
Seat 5: Joy Carter
FORT LAUDERDALE:
Mayor: Dean Trantalis
District 2: Steve Glassman
HALLANDALE BEACH:
Mayor: Joy Cooper
Seat 3: Cynthia Cabrera
Seat 4: Michele Lazarow
HOLLYWOOD:
District 2: Linda Anderson
District 4: Richard Blattner
District 6: Linda Sherwood
POMPANO BEACH:
Mayor: Rex Hardin
District 1: Andrea Leigh McGee
District 2: Rhonda Eaton
District 3: Tom McMahon
District 4: Beverly Perkins
District 5: Barry Moss
