Valentino draws a challenger
Embattled Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino has drawn his first partisan challenger for next year’s District 2 race. Perdido Key resident Robert Kelley has filed to challenge Commissioner Valentino in the Republican primary.
Mr. Kelley, 28, is an associate at Whitesand Investments and a 2005 graduate of the University of West Florida.
At present, Mr. Kelley has a primitive website up, as well as a Twitter presence.
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Derek,
Thanks. Ill try to improve on the website over the next few weeks.
Robert
Oh, the irony…website designed by Bingo!
So tell me, Mr. Kelley, how might you approach the task of change agent in Escambia county? I’ve never witnessed any appreciation for the idea of doing things differently than the GOB system preferred by the local “ruling class”. Being a life long resident of the county, how might you approach identifying persistent barriers to progress, and how might you overcome the predictable all-out bullying by those who have traditionally had their way here? You give the impression, on your website, that the place is just hunkey-dorey and I think it’s great that life for you in Escambia county is great, but does that give you any perspective on the lives of the majority of the county for which that is not the case?
What was your field of study at UWF?
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