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Before Rick Scott and Charlie Crist can face off against each other, both must first get by primary opponents. Both are expected to win handily when results are announced a week from tomorrow, but that isn’t keeping the unknowns from trying.

Rick Scott and Charlie have already spend millions attacking each other.  But bot have primary opponents.

“Hello, My name is Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder” is what one of the two Republicans challenging Rick Scott said as she began her presentation at a retirement home.

The Sarasota mother of three told the audience in this retirement community she was fed up with the direction of the Republican Party. “And the selfishness and the greed and the misunderstanding of how and where to take this state and nation forward has been misleading for the past ten years,” says the candidate of Puerto Rican descent.

The unknown has raised just 16 hundred dollars and she loaned herself 19 thousand.

“You know we have two flip-floppers trying to be Governors” she said holding a rubber flip flop up for the audience, bringing a lauch from the elderly crowd.

Political Scientists say there are really no studies on why virtual unknowns seek a big office. They suggest they want to see their name on the ballot, or they believe in the American dream. Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder told us she was running because “I think someone has to stop this nonsense about someone is in office not to have a challenger. If I don’t beat him, I make him stronger”.

Another Republican also paid the fee, filed but not campaigned.”

On the Democrat side. Former State Senator Nan Rich is on the stump campaigning and raising money every day.  “I believe this state is ready to elect a progressive Democrat and to have the first woman Governor of the State of Florida” says Rich.

While Rich is a long, long shot to have her picture in the Hall of Governors, observers and insiders are watching to see how many votes she gets as a sign of Charlie Crist’s strength with Democratic voters.

Nan Rich has been in the Governor’s race for more than two years and has raised 650 thousand dollars, spending most of it on travel, consultants and some television.