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Drake Buckman
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Florida State University, 1991

Law

Stetson University College of Law, 1997

Personal
Birthplace
Jacksonville, Fla.
Religion
Christian: Episcopalian
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Partner
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Drake Buckman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 72. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Buckman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Drake Buckman was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He earned a bachelor's degree from Florida State University in 1991. He earned a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 1997. Buckman's career experience includes working as a lawyer and co-founding partner with Buckman & Buckman, P.A.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Florida House of Representatives District 72

Fiona McFarland defeated Drake Buckman in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 72 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Fiona McFarland (R)
 
54.6
 
54,902
Image of Drake Buckman
Drake Buckman (D) Candidate Connection
 
45.4
 
45,617

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 100,519
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Drake Buckman advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 72.

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 72

Fiona McFarland defeated Donna Barcomb and Jason Miller in the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 72 on August 18, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Fiona McFarland
 
43.2
 
7,754
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Donna Barcomb
 
41.8
 
7,491
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Jason Miller
 
15.0
 
2,689

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 17,934
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Drake Buckman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Buckman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am a fifth-generation Floridian, a husband and a father who has raised my children and run a business with my wife, Amiee, for almost three decades. I believe that District 72 is the best place to live in Florida, and I am determined to protect the District's environment, schools, infrastructure and employment opportunities.
  • I hate Red Tide. Controlling the pollution that causes it is essential to mainatining our health and our wealth.
  • Our schools are not for sale. Our public schools must be protected from private, for-profit charter school manageement companies.
  • We must fight Covid-19. Our state needs the health infrastructure to find out who is infected, who infected them, and who they may have infected.
Conservation of our wild spaces and the restoration of our aquifer. Florida's environment is unique, can easily be ruined forever, and is irreplaceable.

Building a health department infrastructure on a county-level basis that can adequately fight Covid-19. This funding has been reduced by the Republicans for the last twenty years and must be rebuilt from the ground up.

Ensuring our Department of Education has pandemic emergency plans in place to ensure that all Florida children can have adequate virtual education, if necessary.

Promoting clean, green light industry to help support our economy and modernize our economic infrastructure.

To ensure that the Legislature always supports the dignity and rights of all citizens, no matter the size of their campaign donations.
My wife, for her compassion for the underdog and her patience with me.

My children, for their curiosity and wit.

Winston Churchill, for never, ever surrendering the good fight.
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Walden Pond

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Integrity;

The ability to listen;

Saying what you believe, but keeping an open mind to the possibility that you are wrong.
I know the needs and worries of my constituents, and I am determined to make sure their rights are protected and their voices are heard in the Legislature. I will say what I mean and do what I say, whenever possible.
Meeting the public trust. Elected official volunteer for a job, and it is up to them to be responsive to their constituents' problems and concerns.
When I leave office, I would like District 72 to have better infrastructure and environmental quality than when I took the oath of office. I would like to have left my children a name that they can be proud of, and a reputation for fairness and advocacy for my constituents.
I was a young boy when the Watergate hearings were broadcast live on television. I remeber my mother watching them with me and telling me in her patient, straightforward way what was going on and why it was important thatn even the Presdent is held accountable under the law.
When I was 12 I started mowing lawns in Jacksonville. I learned a great deal about advertising, pricing, sweat equity, small engine mechanics and accounts receivable.
I cannot select just one. By the third page, however, I always know if it will make the list.
A smarter, more in shape, more patient, better-looking me, who is also a better dancer.
Someone Like You--Kings Of Leon
I have often been let down by people who have simply given up and stopped trying to be their best selves. I am often too fond of my own voice. I have struggled sometimes to keep the faith in the face of the cruelty of the world. I often am not my best self, but I always try.
I believe the Florida House is more representative of their individual constituents, due to generally smaller districts. The Republican-controlled Florida Senate is dominated by a smaller group of special moneyed interests.
There is no substitute for experience, but invaluable experience that would help one govern can be found in business, sports, parenting, hourly work, the arts, or service industries. Career politicians tend to have less experience over time in knowing the day-to-day challenges their constituents must navigate.
The ongoing assault on the Florida environment and the destruction of its wild places. Florida's economic prosperity is utterly dependent on our environment and its aquifer. We as citizens must demand protections that will truly protect those resources for future generations.
Ideally, both of these branches of government must work together, but independently, to protect the rights and propserity of all Floridians.
It is essential. I will be elected to represent District 72, and all of its citizens, regardless of their party afffiliation. I will work with any legislator who wants to improve the lives of my constituents. And, I will fight any attempt by any legislator to injure District 72.
I believe that redistricting should accurately reflect the political beliefs of the reesidents of the district. I believe that an independent commission should draw those boundaries. Ideally, however, once the technology exists, I believe computers, based on independent microdata of the voters in a particular district would probably be best suited to draw the most objective district boundaries.

Justice Appropriations

Children and Family

Agriculture and Natural Resources
Yes. In whatever role I may be f most service.
Lawton Chiles
No.
I have been speaking to hundreds of my neighbors who, for the first time in their lives, find themselves unemployed. They also have found that the unemployment system designed by the Republicans has delayed and denied them benefits that are essential for their survivial.

I spoke with one single mother who had been laid off from a good job as a server due to Covid-19. She was deemed "ineligible" for benefits several times by the system. When she contacted me she told me she was down to thirty dollars, a gallon of milk, and was getting ready to walk to the food bank.

That was a disgrace.

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  1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 11, 2020


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