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HD 4 hopeful Wayne Harris might call himself ‘tax cutter,’ but he is anything but

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From the start, Wayne Harris, a Republican running for Matt Gaetz’s House District 4 seat, has strutted his conservative credentials. A recent mailer to voters in HD 4 even boasts Harris as an “Emerald Coast tax cutter.” But after a closer look, it becomes increasingly difficult to describe Harris in those terms, especially compared to the other Republicans in the race. Examples of this abound; Harris used his current campaign account to contribute and attend dinners with Democratic clubs such as…

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Amid legislative turnover, new House candidates reach for safe GOP seats

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As ever in the term limits era, the makeup of the Republican House majority is set to shift in terms of personnel, if not necessarily in degree of dominance. As the very House-inflected state Rep. Matt Gaetz seeks to take over his father state Sen. Don Gaetz‘s spot in the Legislature’s upper chamber, a Walton County commissioner has filed to replace him in his deeply conservative District 4 seat. Commissioner Wayne Harris filed paperwork to run on June 10, according to the Florida Division of Elections.…

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