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State House, District 67

State Legislature

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Research as of Nov. 1, 2026

Read by a synthetic voice from this page’s research. A summary, not a recommendation.

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An open state House seat is on the ballot because House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell is term-limited. Republican Lisette Bonano faces Democrat Luis Viera. Viera is a Tampa lawyer who has served on the Tampa City Council since 2016 and resigned to run. His priorities include affordability, public safety, disability rights and veterans. Last year he said he opposed eliminating property taxes, favoring changes and more help for seniors. Bonano is a retired Army lieutenant colonel. She was the Republican nominee here in 2022 and lost to Driskell, 54 to 46. She names property taxes, insurance costs and public safety as key issues. Viera is endorsed by the Florida AFL-CIO and the Florida Education Association, and across party lines by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Associated Industries of Florida and Florida Realtors. Bonano is on the Hillsborough Republican Party's slate. Florida Politics reports about 38 percent of voters here are registered Democrats and 27 percent Republicans. No poll was found. Viera had raised about 192 thousand dollars through October 29. Bonano had raised about 10 thousand through October 16; her next report wasn't posted by November 1. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's editors back Viera. The Tampa Bay Times made no picks in state House races. Research as of November 1, 2026. Sources and the full picture are on this page.

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State Representative, District 67 · Vote for one

  • Lisette BonanoRepublican Party
  • Luis VieraDemocratic Party
Lead recommendationEditorialCreative Loafing Tampa Bay, Oct. 22, 2026

Creative Loafing’s pick

Luis Viera

Why

Creative Loafing listed this pick in its guide without a write-up. Its reporting on the race is below.

Creative Loafing voting guide 2026: How to vote in Tampa Bay, and who we're voting for

From the record our summary of sourced facts, not Creative Loafing’s words

  • Ten years on Tampa City Council and HART’s board chair; he fought a 2025 plan to break up HART that would have cut off riders outside Tampa. (FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Bay News 9, Ballotpedia)
  • He wrote Tampa’s 2021 apprenticeship requirement for big city contracts and forced a second vote on the Tenant Bill of Rights. (Tampa Bay Times, 83 Degrees Media, FOX 13 Tampa Bay)
  • He rejects the push to abolish property taxes (“mend it, don’t end it”) and favors more relief for seniors. (WMNF)

Why this leads: The site owner's choice (Oct. 24): the recommendation that best matches the owner's values, shown first on every contest. Still an editorial: one outlet's opinion, not this site's.

Where it stands

Fact

This is an open seat. Rep. Fentrice Driskell (D), the House Democratic Leader, is term-limited, and neither candidate is an incumbent. Driskell held the seat in 2022 and 2024 with about 54-55% of the vote. Florida Politics, citing L2 voter data, reported that nearly 38% of the district's voters are registered Democrats and 27% Republicans. No public polls were found. Through Oct. 29, 2026, Viera had raised about $192,400; Bonano had raised about $10,000 through Oct. 16 (her Oct. 17-29 report wasn't posted by Nov. 1).12,9,13

  • 2024: Fentrice Driskell (D) 54.7% vs Rico Smith (R) 45.3%12
  • 2022: Fentrice Driskell (D) 54.0% vs Lisette Bonano (R) 46.0%12

No polls found in the research.

Research as of Oct 23, 2026.

The money gap

Fact

19×Luis Viera has raised 19 times as much as Lisette Bonano.

Compares Luis Viera's figure through Oct 29, 2026 with Lisette Bonano's through Oct 16, 2026.

  • Luis VieraDemocrat

    $192,352as of Oct 29, 2026

  • Lisette BonanoRepublican

    $9,988as of Oct 16, 2026

Monetary contributions reported to election officials. In-kind contributions and loans are left out here and listed under each candidate below. The latest figures run to different dates, shown beside each amount.

Candidates and money

Fact

Lisette BonanoRepublican

Lisette Bonano is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel from New Tampa who describes herself as a chief operations officer and small-business executive. She has not held elected office. She was the Republican nominee for this seat in 2022 and lost the 2024 Republican primary.12,8,5,1,6

  • Ballotpedia lists her Army service as 1981 to 2010, with roles including strategic plans officer, human rights officer and military investigator/inspector. Her 2026 survey describes 28 years of service.12
  • She lost the 2022 general election for HD 67 to Rep. Fentrice Driskell, 46.0% to 54.0%, and lost the 2024 Republican primary to Rico Smith, 43.5% to 56.5%.12
  • In her 2026 Ballotpedia survey she named affordability, infrastructure, property taxes, insurance costs and responsible growth as key issues, along with veterans and public safety.12
  • In her 2024 Ballotpedia survey she put stricter immigration enforcement, gun rights, and opposition to vaccine and mask mandates at the center of her campaign.12
  • In her iVoterGuide questionnaire she supports legal protection from conception to natural death, opposes sanctuary cities, supports photo ID to vote, and backs eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.26
  • The Division of Elections document list for her campaign includes several 'Fail to File' letters and fine notices dated June through October 2026, the latest a Fail to File letter received Oct. 13, 2026. The letters themselves were not opened.2

Raised $9,988, spent $9,757 (DOS campaign treasurer's reports, all-dates totals through the period ending Oct. 16, 2026 (G5; her G6 wasn't posted by Nov. 1), as of Oct 16, 2026)Raised is monetary contributions. DOS also lists $491.24 in in-kind contributions and no loans. Her reports through Oct. 16 were on file by Nov. 1; the Oct. 17-29 report was not. The DOS summary does not show cash on hand.3

Luis VieraDemocrat

Luis Viera is a Tampa lawyer and Democrat who has represented District 7 (New Tampa, North Tampa and the Fowler/Busch area) on the Tampa City Council since 2016. Under Florida's resign-to-run law he resigned his council seat effective Nov. 2, 2026. He has served three terms as chair of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) board.13,9,11,5,1,7

  • He won his council seat in a 2016 runoff with 50.6% of the vote, was re-elected in 2019 with 76.2%, and was unopposed in 2023.13
  • He founded and formerly led the Lawyers Autism Awareness Foundation and serves on the board of Tampa Bay Best Buddies. He has made disability services and accessibility a council priority.9
  • On the council he helped secure funding for three new fire stations in New and North Tampa, championed the city's apprenticeship ordinance, and helped secure $3.2 million in post-hurricane housing assistance.9,11
  • In 2025 he said he opposed the push to eliminate property taxes, favoring changes to the system and more accommodations for seniors instead.10
  • His stated priorities include affordability, public safety, infrastructure, disability rights and veterans. His campaign site adds public schools, the Medicaid waiver program, labor unions and civil rights.11,22

Raised $192,352, spent $183,051 (DOS campaign treasurer's reports, all-dates totals through the period ending Oct. 29, 2026 (G6), as of Oct 29, 2026)Raised is monetary contributions. DOS also lists $4,245.61 in in-kind contributions, $1,483.21 in other distributions and no loans. The most recent period (Oct. 3-16) shows $6,960 raised and $22,657.05 spent. The DOS summary does not show cash on hand.4

Not found in the research

  • Campaign finance: the Florida DOS contributions database (dos.elections.myflorida.com/cgi-bin/contrib.exe) returned 'Query timeout expired' on every attempt on 2026-10-23. Totals come from TransparencyUSA/Ballotpedia and run only through about mid-July 2026. No cash-on-hand figure and no 2026 Q3 (period ending Sept. 30) figures were found for either candidate.
  • Tampa Bay Times: its running recommendations page (tampabay.com/viewpoints/2026/09/27/..., updated Oct. 20) lists no Florida House races, so there is no Times recommendation for HD 67.
  • Creative Loafing Tampa: no 2026 HD 67 endorsement found. Blue Voter Guide's listing appears to reflect an earlier Driskell race.
  • No public polls found for HD 67.
  • Right-leaning endorsements of Bonano: searched AFP Action Florida, Florida Right to Life, Florida Family Action, Florida PBA/FOP, Florida Farm Bureau, Florida Medical Association, NRA-PVF and her campaign endorsements page (which lists no named endorsers). Only the Hillsborough GOP slate was found. iVoterGuide links a 2026 Florida Family Action voter guide but does not show a recommendation.
  • Progressive groups with no HD 67 endorsement found: Planned Parenthood PAC (WLRN's Oct. 13, 2026 report of its slate does not include HD 67), Moms Demand Action Gun Sense, Florida Conservation Voters, Florida Rising, and the Hillsborough LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus (named only by Blue Voter Guide, which returned 403).
  • iVoterGuide says Viera has 17 'liberal' endorsements but names only five. 'Justice Opportunity Liberty Politico (JOLPOL)' was left out because its orientation could not be confirmed. Equality Florida, Sierra Club, SEIU, the police unions and ABC rest on iVoterGuide alone.
  • Florida Politics articles on Driskell's and Kathy Castor's support and on first-responder endorsements of Viera (archives/754185 and 751688) returned HTTP 402 and could not be read beyond the summary in archives/797055.
  • Viera has not completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey and left all iVoterGuide questions unanswered, so few of his positions on state issues are documented.
  • Viera's council start date: Ballotpedia says December 2016 (consistent with his 2016 runoff win), while one Florida Politics article says 2019. This guide uses Ballotpedia.
  • Write-in: the sample ballot has a write-in line, but the DOS candidate list shows no qualified write-in candidate for HD 67.
  • NRA Political Victory Fund grades Luis Viera 'F' and lists no endorsement in this race (https://nrapvf.org/grades/florida). A grade is a rating, not an endorsement, so it isn't recorded in the lens.
  • Money was re-checked against the Division of Elections treasurer reports on Oct. 23, 2026, replacing earlier TransparencyUSA figures that ran only to July 17.

Tampa Bay Times

EditorialMoney map

Not found in the research.

EditorialAs recorded in each guide

Endorsements, both lenses

Neither lens is this site's voice

Progressive lens

Lens
Lisette BonanoREP0 support · 0 oppose

No listings found in this guide.

Luis VieraDEM10 support · 0 oppose

SupportEndorsement

Labor
LGBTQ+
Environment & climate
Progressive & community organizing
Democratic Party & caucuses

Searched, nothing found

Not found in the research.

Right-leaning lens

Lens
Lisette BonanoREP1 support · 0 oppose

SupportEndorsement

Republican Party & officials
Luis VieraDEM7 support · 0 oppose

SupportEndorsement

Business & industry
Law enforcement & public safety (often bipartisan)

Searched, nothing found

Not found in the research.

Sources

27 for this contest, official records first

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