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Last Updated on Thursday, 5 November 2009 02:26 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 5 November 2009 02:26
From Lake Wales News:
Sen. Paula Dockery jumped into the governor’s race Tuesday, ending Bill McCollum’s virtually unobstructed path to the nomination backed by most Republican leaders.
The 48-year-old Lakeland senator said she planned to file campaign papers mid-afternoon Tuesday, walking the documents from the Capitol to the Secretary of State’s office two blocks away.
Dockery has been mulling the race for months, encouraged by supporters to take on the candidate that has been backed by the Republican Party of Florida in a campaign that will be seen as bucking politics as usual in Tallahassee.