Frank Perez (Florida)

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Frank Perez

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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 30, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Frank Perez was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 27th Congressional District of Florida. Perez was defeated by Scott Fuhrman in the Democratic primary on August 30, 2016.

Elections

2016

See also: Florida's 27th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) defeated Scott Fuhrman (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Ros-Lehtinen defeated David Adams and Maria Peiro in the Republican primary, while Fuhrman defeated Frank Perez and Adam Sackrin to win the Democratic nomination. The primary elections took place on August 30, 2016.

U.S. House, Florida District 27 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Incumbent	54.9%	157,917
	Democratic	Scott Fuhrman	45.1%	129,760
Total Votes				287,677
Source: Florida Division of Elections

U.S. House, Florida District 27 Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Incumbent	80.5%	30,485
Maria Peiro	11.7%	4,450
David Adams	7.8%	2,945
Total Votes		37,880
Source: Florida Division of Elections

U.S. House, Florida District 27 Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Scott Fuhrman	58.9%	17,068
Frank Perez	24.5%	7,087
Adam Sackrin	16.6%	4,808
Total Votes		28,963
Source: Florida Division of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Perez's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Campaign Finance Reform: Corporate, Special Interest and Dark Money must be reduced or eliminated. Politics is shaped by the billions of dollars that are injected into our elections. Congress spends some 40% of its time asking for money. When a company or billionaire “donates” big money, it expects results; it expects results that benefit it not necessarily you. I believe the justices of the United States Supreme Court were wrong in deciding Citizens United. Whether you like him or not, Bernie Sanders had the political establishment worried that millions of ordinary people could keep up with the Donor Class that rules politics. Grow the Middle Class & Make Products in the U.S.A.: Trade agreements like NAFTA and the TPP have had an adverse effect on American production jobs and have pushed millions of Americans out of the middle class. This has to change. Both government and the private sector have to work together to make our economy work for us and business. We live in a very competitive world. Yet continuing global business as usual is not the answer for the American worker. Provide for the Common Defense: We spend over $ 604 billion on defense. That is 16% of the federal budget. As a point of reference, the federal government spends 15% of the budget on Medicare. In the 1970’s, 70% of Senate members were veterans. The current Congress only has 19% of its members that have served in our military. Reinvigorate Education: Educating our children is a national security issue. Rankings of our K-12 system indicate that many other nations do better. That can be debated. Other nations pay their teachers on par with lawyers and doctors. We don’t. Funding for public schools should be similar across the board. We need to make sure that children from low income families receive the same education as others do. Strengthen Retirement Security: The social security system was not designed to be a senior’s primary source of retirement income. Yet due to the gutting of traditional pension plans and the 40 year reduction in middle class levels and incomes, social security payments are now a main source of income for many senior citizens.	”
—Frank Perez's campaign website, http://www.frankforflorida.com/_campaign_finance_reform

See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Florida's 27th Congressional District election, 2016
• Florida's 27th Congressional District

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
• Facebook page

Footnotes

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Florida's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Ashley Moody (R)

Rick Scott (R)

Representatives

District 1

Jimmy Patronis (R)

District 2

Neal Dunn (R)

District 3

Kat Cammack (R)

District 4

Aaron Bean (R)

District 5

John Rutherford (R)

District 6

Randy Fine (R)

District 7

Cory Mills (R)

District 8

Mike Haridopolos (R)

District 9

Darren Soto (D)

District 10

Maxwell Frost (D)

District 11

Daniel Webster (R)

District 12

Gus Bilirakis (R)

District 13

Anna Luna (R)

District 14

Kathy Castor (D)

District 15

Laurel Lee (R)

District 16

Vern Buchanan (R)

District 17

Greg Steube (R)

District 18

Scott Franklin (R)

District 19

Byron Donalds (R)

District 20

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D)

District 21

Brian Mast (R)

District 22

Lois Frankel (D)

District 23

Jared Moskowitz (D)

District 24

Frederica Wilson (D)

District 25

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)

District 26

Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

District 27

Maria Elvira Salazar (R)

District 28

Carlos Gimenez (R)

Republican Party (22)

Democratic Party (8)