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On this ballot

• Commissioner of Agriculture
  Mark your ballot: Commissioner of Agriculture

  Wilton SimpsonREP (Republican)Joey Mendoza AtkinsCreative Loafing's pickDEM (Democratic)Write-in

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  EditorialWhy Creative Loafing picks Joey Mendoza Atkins

  Creative Loafing listed this pick in its guide without a write-up.

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

• Chief Financial Officer
  Mark your ballot: Chief Financial Officer

  Blaise IngogliaREP (Republican)Annette TaddeoCreative Loafing's pickDEM (Democratic)

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  EditorialWhy Creative Loafing picks Annette Taddeo

  Creative Loafing listed this pick in its guide without a write-up.

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

• Governor and Lieutenant Governor
  Mark your ballot: Governor and Lieutenant Governor

  Byron Donalds and Bryan AvilaREP (Republican)David Jolly and Gwen GrahamCreative Loafing's pickDEM (Democratic)Scott Eckhard Jewett and Nicole SkellyLPF (Libertarian Party of Florida)Charles Burkett and Ruben A. CotoNPA (No Party Affiliation)Frank J. Russo and Rachel RodriguezNPA (No Party Affiliation)Moliere "Moe" Dimanche and Benjiman RojasNPA (No Party Affiliation)Dean Ocean Abrams and Joe Van VactorNPA (No Party Affiliation)Jeffrey Peter "Dr. Jeff" Datto and Juan SantanaNPA (No Party Affiliation)Write-in

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  EditorialWhy Creative Loafing picks David Jolly / Gwen Graham

  Creative Loafing listed this pick in its guide without a write-up.

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

• United States Senator
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  Ashley MoodyREP (Republican)Angie NixonCreative Loafing's pickDEM (Democratic)Neil J. GillespieNPA (No Party Affiliation)

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  EditorialWhy Creative Loafing picks Angie Nixon

  • Nixon won the Democratic primary decisively despite being outspent 16 to 1 by the party's preferred candidate, and CL calls her easy to get behind.
  • She was a single mother for 12 years and runs a Jacksonville bookstore and coffee shop. In six years in the Legislature she filed early-learning bills, fought cuts to public schools and limits on abortion, and was arrested protesting the gerrymandered congressional maps.
  • Her agenda, as CL reports it: extend Affordable Care Act subsidies first, lower costs, shore up Social Security and protect families from medical bankruptcy, partly by raising taxes on the very wealthy.
  • CL relays Nixon's case against Ashley Moody: Moody's role in the Hope Florida scandal, her stock trading, her vote for the "Big Beautiful Bill" and its Medicaid cuts, and her refusal to debate.

  The guide lists Nixon without a write-up; these reasons are from CL's Oct. 19 story on her Ybor City rally, which recommends her.

  Ray Roa (with Dave Decker), In Ybor City, Angie Nixon and Bernie Sanders rally against ‘lying, cheating, scheming, thieving Ashley Moody’ (w/photos)

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