Winter Garden Magazine November 2014 | Page 4

political spotlight the results are in: Rick Scott is still your governor F irst of all a special congratulations from The Winter Garden Magazine to ALL the winners of this year’s elections, for displaying your talents, purpose, and goals so eloquently and earning your winning seat. There are some who may disagree with the final results, but this article is not to support nor deny the election winners. It is clear that the majority has spoken in the final results. 4  |  WINTER GARDEN MAGAZINE  |  OCTOBER 2014 NOVEMBER 2014 Your 45th Governor of the state of Florida will be Rick Scott, a Republican. Carrying in 2,861,390 votes in his favor and totaling 48% of the deciding vote. In comparison, Charlie Crist carried 2,795,263 and 47% -- just 66,127 votes behind. Attorney General: There are so many that have been non-informed about the following position. Not really knowing what this person is responsible for makes it that much more difficult to designate a trustee (for lack of better words). The Attorney General for the State of Florida is responsible for upholding and protecting the people of the state of Florida from fraud and violators of the anti-trust laws. Your Attorney General for this term is once again Pam Bondi, who ran a firm race against Democratic opponent George Sheldon and Liberal representative Bill Wohlsifer. Bondi closed out with 55%, totaling 3,218,088 votes in her favor and towering over Sheldon at 42% and 2,452,028 votes, and Wohlsifer at 3% with 168,946 votes.