The Florida Chamber of Commerce is again uniting Florida’s business community to help make Florida more competitive, and today endorsed a bipartisan list of nine additional candidates running for election this year.
These candidates underwent a thorough vetting by the business community as part of the Florida Chamber Political Institute’s Candidate Interview process. Covering five cities over six weeks, more than 80 business organizations joined together to interview over 100 candidates for state legislative office.
“Florida created 1 in every 11 new jobs nationally over the last year and 1 in 6 new jobs nationally in the month of July alone,” said Mark Wilson, President and CEO, Florida Chamber of Commerce. “This job growth is not accidental – we must continue electing pro-jobs candidates to make sure the right things keep happening in Florida as we grow from the 16th to the 10th largest global economy by 2030, and we are confident these candidates will help us keep that momentum.”
The Florida Chamber is proud to stand alongside the following candidates, putting its full 100-plus years of combined political experience and family of political action capabilities behind getting them elected.
Senate:
District 35: Barbara Sharief
House of Representatives:
District 18: Kim Kendall
District 26: Nan Cobb
District 33: Monique Miller
District 48: Jon Albert
District 72: Bill Conerly
District 81: Yvette Benarroch
District 93: Anne Gerwig
District 94: Meg Weinberger
The Florida Chamber previously released two rounds of legislative endorsements including incumbent and former legislators, as well as first time candidates. Further endorsements may follow.
With all 120 Florida House seats and 20 Florida Senate seats on the 2024 ballot, the Florida Chamber continues to lead the business community’s efforts to recruit and elect better candidates through the Florida Free Enterprise Fund, Florida Chamber Political Institute and the Florida Institute for Political Leadership. For more information about these initiatives, contact the Florida Chamber’s Executive Vice President of Government & Political Relations Frank Walker at fwalker@flchamber.com.