Vetted
Aurelia Sandoval
Pinellas County Commission · District 3
Lifelong Largo resident. Public defender. Ran on county-budget transparency. Vetted June 2.
Meet the candidates
Every Pinellas race we vetted. Plus the ones we’re still chasing.
The Coalition sends every candidate the same 22-question questionnaire, publishes their answers verbatim, hosts a public forum, and publishes a scorecard 90 days before election day. We don’t endorse — we vet and we publish. The reading is yours.
2026 cycle
Eight candidates. Fifteen more on the calendar between now and August.
Vetted
Marcus Whitfield
Pinellas County School Board · Seat 5
High school principal, retired. Spent the last forum talking about teacher retention, not culture-war flashpoints.
Vetted
Inez Brooks
Florida State Senate · District 18
Small business owner, three terms on Dunedin city commission. Returned questionnaire in three days.
Vetted
Jonas Reyes
Florida House · District 64
Iraq War veteran. Construction trades background. Voted yes on the rental-cap ordinance as Largo commissioner.
Vetted
Priscilla Tan
Clearwater City Council · Seat 2
Civic-tech engineer. Wrote the open-data ordinance Clearwater adopted in 2024. Forum on June 14.
Vetted
Dario Mendelsohn
Pinellas County Commission · District 7
Marine biologist. Coastal-resilience focus. Has attended seven straight Coalition meetings as a member.
Questionnaire pending
Camille Aboagye
Pinellas County School Board · Seat 7
Mother of three, PTA chair, public-health background. Questionnaire pending. Forum date TBD.
Vetting underway
Soren Holloway
St. Petersburg City Council · District 6
Affordable-housing advocate. Renter. Filed for the seat in April. Vetting underway.
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