{"id":690,"date":"2008-08-17T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T02:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:08:17","slug":"more-silly-season-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"More silly season fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science has assembled a listing of all candidates<\/a> running for the state Senate and House. We’ve included websites for the candidates as we could find them.<\/p>\n

Also of interest for anyone in Clay County: An organization active in that area sent out questionnaires to the local candidates and then created an online voter guide<\/a>. Scroll to the bottom of that page and have a look at the superintendent and school board folks. There are some positions these folks have you might find interesting. Anyone know of any other similar voting guides out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science has assembled a listing of all candidates running for the state Senate and House. We’ve included websites for the candidates as we could find them. Also of interest for anyone in Clay County: An organization active … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-b8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":674,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=674","url_meta":{"origin":690,"position":0},"title":"Evolution comes up in the silly season","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the silly season: election year! 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