McCain weighs in for Bogdanoff in state Senate race
by George Bennett | June 15th, 2009
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McCain returned the favor today, endorsing Bogdanoff in her bid for the seat of state Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, who’s giving up the seat next year to run for chief financial officer.
“Ellyn Bogdanoff has the character, experience, and commitment to make a difference,” McCain said in a statement released by the Bogdanoff campaign. “During her career, she has consistently put people over politics, and she will continue to outline policies to lead Florida out of its economic crisis.”
Bogdanoff is running in a GOP primary with state Rep. Carl Domino, R-Jupiter, and businessman Nick Loeb of Delray Beach. Both Domino and Loeb raised money for Giuliani’s presidential bid, and Giuliani headlined a fund-raiser for Loeb last month when Loeb was running for state House. Loeb later switched to the Senate race when Atwater announced his CFO campaign.
State Rep. Kelly Skidmore, D-Boca Raton, is also running for Atwater’s Palm Beach-Broward seat.
Atwater’s District 25 has a slight Republican registration advantage. But Democrat Barack Obama edged McCain with about 51 percent of the vote in the district last November.
The Bogdanoff campaign called McCain’s endorsement “the first major national endorsement garnered by any Florida state legislative candidate in the 2010 cycle.”
Said Bogdanoff: “There are few Americans with the record of bi-partisan service held by Senator McCain. His patriotic sense of duty and fiscal conservatism even at times when it is not politically expedient is a model for every elected official in the country, and I am truly honored by his support.”
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