Democratic Party Endorses Candidate Jeremy Rogers for Leon School Board

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The Florida Democratic Party released its slate of school board candidates on Friday, a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis released his list of endorsed candidates.

“We will not allow Ron DeSantis and his allies to take over our school boards with far-right Moms for Liberty candidates,” party chair Nikki Fried said in a press release.

The field includes 11 candidates, drawn from school board elections across the state. Only one is from Leon County: Jeremy Rogers, who is running for the District 4 seat against DeSantis-endorsed incumbent Laurie Lawson Cox.

Rogers has been vocal about his opponent’s ties to local members of Moms for Liberty, Republican Senator Corey Simon and the governor.

“Our campaign has momentum in August and with our broad bipartisan support, we are going to win,” Rogers told the Tallahassee Democrat.

Rogers is currently endorsed by the Big Bend Labor Council, Equality Florida, the Tallahassee Firefighters and the Leon County Classroom Teachers Association (LCTA). He said all three groups have a broad range of members with varying political leanings.

Rosanne Wood, the only other Democrat in the Leon County School Board race, was noticeably not named to the list.

But she said that’s because she doesn’t want to play politics in the nonpartisan school board elections. Amendment 1 on this year’s general election ballot gives Florida voters the option to let school board candidates run on a party-line basis, not as nonpartisan candidates.

“I didn’t ask for an endorsement because I think there’s too much partisanship in school board elections,” Wood told the Tallahassee Democrat Friday morning. “I don’t see kids as Republicans, Democrats or independents. I see them as kids who are counting on us to take care of them.”

Wood is running in District 2 against Daniel Zeruto, a registered Republican, with the support of the LCTA.

Alaijah Brown is a children and family writer for the Tallahassee Democrat. She can be reached at [email protected]Follow her on Twitter/X: @AlaijahBrown3.

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