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Some Primary Election Candidates Worth Considering, from the Point of View of a Republican, and a Democratic

Russell Conn and Debbie Wuthnow

Fort Pierce - Friday August 19, 2022: This week on In Focus with IRSC Public Media we'll take a look at some of the candidates in the August 23 Primary Election.

We’re going to hear some candidate recommendations in the next half hour from two organizations, one group that’s avowedly democratic and the other that is principally a republican leaning organization.

Russell Conn is the President of the Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida, no secret where they stand. Maintaining the environment of Florida is critical to the state’s economy says Conn, and the caucus has researched the candidates vying for state and federal office and named the ones they believe are committed to protecting Florida’s land and water resources, all democrats.

The caucus looked at the voting records, spoke with the candidates about their positions, and asked each to respond to a detailed questionnaire asking about their positions on the most important environmental problems facing Florida today, and what they plan to do about those issues. Conn will tell us about some of the candidates they recommended.

You can see the full list of the Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida’s primary election candidate recommendations on the website at: https://www.environmentalcaucus.com/.

Then we’ll speak with Debbie Wuthnow the President of iVoterGuide, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to conservative principals and biblical values. iVoterGuide rates candidates around the nation and WQCS asked them to take a look at some of those candidates here on the Treasure Coast.

The ratings, Wuthnow says, are not based so much on what the candidates says, but on what they have done. iVoterGuide has researched their backgrounds, their voting records, their websites and asked them to fill out questionnaires as well.

Their candidate recommendations for the primary election along the Treasure Coast are all republicans, but after the primary is over, Wuthnow says they’ll be rating both democrats and republicans, and any other party candidates that are running in the general election.

To learn who the candidates they’re recommending in your neighborhood are, just plug your zip code in at the iVoterGuide website at: https://ivoterguide.com/values.