Shortly after Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer delivered his State of the City Address yesterday, two of his opponents and another candidates for an Orlando Commission seat were holding their own event.
Orlando Mayor Candidates Mike Cantone and Ken Mulvaney along with City Commission candidate Lawanna Gelzer, held a press conference at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections calling, for an investigation over the handling of absentee ballots.
Gelzer addresses media as Mulvaney and Cantone look on
The three sent a letter citing that political operatives working for the Dyer and City Commissioner Sam Ings (Gelzer’s opponent) violated rules for requesting absentee ballots and neither of the operatives were established as “designees”. They also add in the letter a list of other possible violations and failure to act by the City Clerk and Supervisor of elections. You can read the full letter below.
Mayor Dyer was indicted several years back on similar allegations but was later cleared. Dyer has also been rumored to be a possible opponent for Governor Rick Scott in the 2014 elections.
Mayoral candidate Mike Cantone told reporters in attendance that he was simply calling for an investigation
Mulvaney has had issues with the Dyer campaign during previous elections concerning ballots
Dyer’s 3rd rival, City Commissioner Phil Diamond was not on hand. The Governor’s office has said that the matter is under investigation.
[...] The youngest candidate in the field has been embracing social media to get his name out there. He’s running Facebook ads aggressively which is a low cost alternative to airing mainstream media adverts over television and radio. Cantone has also been able to benefit from the media attention drawn from some of his publicity tactics that the news outlets have been able to report on like calling on Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer to sign a full term pledge and teaming with other candidates to challenge absentee ballots. [...]
[...] The youngest candidate in the field has been embracing social media to get his name out there. He’s running Facebook ads aggressively which is a low cost alternative to airing mainstream media adverts over television and radio. Cantone has also been able to benefit from the media attention drawn from some of his publicity tactics that the news outlets have been able to report on, like calling on Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer to sign a full term pledge when he’s been rumored as a Guv favorite for 14′ and teaming with other candidates to challenge absentee ballots. [...]
[...] Campaign Moment: His joint press conference with fellow candidate Mike Cantone and others calling for the investigation of Buddy Dyer’s [...]