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The Orlando Democrat was first elected to the Florida House in 2006 and served multiple terms in both House and Senate.

A state agency last week said Mayfield was not eligible to run for the Senate District 19 seat because of Florida's term ...

Randolph Bracy III, a former state senator who lost to Thompson when he challenged her in the Democratic primary for Florida Senate District 15 last August, made the announcement on Instagram and ...

The DeSantis administration has had to invent a legal blockade to prevent state Rep. Debbie Mayfield, who supported Donald ...

Separately, two residents file legal briefs supporting state officials' view Mayfield is not qualified to run because of ...

Hours after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Debbie Mayfield was constitutionally eligible to run in the Special Election ...

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a long-serving legislator and “trailblazing” civil-rights leader from Central Florida, died after complications from knee surgery, her family announced Thursday.

Thursday’s action concluded a surprisingly bitter and rare disagreement between the Republican governor and GOP-led House and ...

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this week despite early predictions that they would have trouble getting through ...