Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi got a Democratic opponent today.<\/p>\n

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George Sheldon, who recently stepped down as an assistant secretary in the Obama administrations\u2019 Health and Human Services Dept., said he plans to return \u201ccharacter\u201d to the Attorney General\u2019s office. Sheldon says Bondi has been fighting the wrong fights for the wrong reasons.\u00a0\u201cI see an unwillingness to even reach out a hand to the federal government, an unwillingness to expand Medicaid to folks who are trying to work their way into the middle class, a demagoguery about the affordable care act\u201d says Sheldon<\/p>\n

In addition to serving in Washington under President Obama, The Democratic contender has run Florida\u2019s Department of Children and Families, served as an Assistant Attorney General, and been elected to the State House from Tampa.<\/p>\n

Here’s the statement from the Bondi Campaign:<\/p>\n

“As Florida’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi has fought hard to defend\u00a0and protect the\u00a0people\u00a0by making Florida a zero tolerance state for\u00a0pill mills, taking on human trafficking, and pursuing consumer relief from both, mortgage and Medicaid fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pam\u00a0Bondi\u00a0and George Sheldon have very different credentials and points of view, and we welcome the opportunity to show\u00a0the voters in Florida that they will have a clear choice between two distinctly different candidates.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pablo Diaz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Campaign Manager<\/p>\n

10-21-13<\/p>\n

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Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi got a Democratic opponent today. George Sheldon, who recently stepped down as an assistant secretary in the Obama administrations\u2019 Health and Human Services Dept., said he plans to return \u201ccharacter\u201d to the Attorney General\u2019s office. Sheldon says Bondi has been fighting the wrong fights for the wrong reasons.\u00a0\u201cI see an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19721,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions\/19721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}