Scott Fuhrman

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Scott Fuhrman

Democratic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Scott Fuhrman was a 2018 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 27th Congressional District of Florida. Fuhrman dropped out of the race in June 2017.

Fuhrman was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 27th Congressional District of Florida.

Elections

2018

See also: Florida's 27th Congressional District election, 2018

Fuhrman sought election to the 27th Congressional District of Florida in 2018. He dropped out of the race in June 2017.

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 Fuhrman's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Economic Inequality, Jobs and the Economy: As a small business owner, I believe in the value of investing in your employees by paying good wages and solid benefits. That is why all the employees at my company earn a living wage and excellent benefits such as a paid family and sick leave. We need to ensure that all Americans can earn those same benefits. Healthcare: I would like to build upon the foundation of the Affordable Care Act so that families can have access to healthcare and doctors and patients are making health care decisions, not insurance companies. We don’t want to go back to the days when insurance companies could discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions and our seniors had to deal with a prescription drug donut hole. Healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege, and we need to move toward the goal of universal coverage. Social Security: Like Medicare, our seniors earned their Social Security benefits through a lifetime of hard work, putting money into the system every single paycheck. In Congress, I will fight Republican efforts to decrease benefits or privatize Social Security. In particular, changing the cost-of-living adjustments (chained CPI) would erode the benefits that seniors earned. The fact is, Social Security doesn’t add to the deficit, and is solvent for at least another 20 years. To protect and preserve Social Security for future generations, we need an approach like Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill took in the 1980s – bipartisan. They made Social Security solvent for generations and that is the approach we need now. Campaign Finance: As long as we have campaigns financed by the wealthiest few individuals and corporate special interests, we won’t see progress on the most critical issues facing this country. We must make reforming our campaign finance system – and making it as transparent and accountable as possible – a top priority in the next Congress. Immigration: We need comprehensive reform that secures our borders and creates a pathway to earned citizenship for hardworking Americans, especially students and those brave enough to serve in the military. Currently we’re hearing a lot of hate and demagoguery from Donald Trump and his Republican allies, and I’ll stand against that hateful rhetoric because all it does is continue to divide us. We need to bring our brothers and sisters out of the shadows, and recognize our common humanity and their valuable contributions to our society.	”
—Scott Fuhrman's campaign website, http://www.scottfuhrman.com/issues/

Recent news

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See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Florida's 27th Congressional District election, 2018
• Florida's 27th Congressional District election, 2016
• Florida's 27th Congressional District

External links

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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)