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Karen Castor Dentel is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and current school board member of the Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida since August of 2018. [15] Frank Castor has served as a judge in Palm Beach County, Florida, since 2007. [16] Betty and Donald Castor divorced in 1978.
Her mother, Betty Castor (née Elizabeth Bowe), is a former University of South Florida president, a former Hillsborough County commissioner, a former Florida state senator, a former Florida education commissioner, and a 2004 U.S. Senate candidate. Her father, Donald F. Castor, [1] was a Hillsborough County judge and died in April 2013. [2]
Republican Mel Martínez, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was elected to the Senate in 2004, defeating Democrat Betty Castor, the former president of the University of South Florida and former Florida Education Commissioner, by 82,663 votes, 49.4% to 48.3%.
Graham made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The primary elections were held on August 31, 2004. Republican Mel Martínez won the open seat with 49.4% of the vote to Democratic nominee Betty Castor's 48.3%. With a margin of 1.1%, this election was the closest race of the 2004 Senate election cycle.
Betty Castor, State Senator from Tampa; Seven tickets ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Florida. Jim Williams, the lieutenant governor, ran for governor with former state Senator Betty Castor of Florida, as his running mate.
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Betty Castor, former Florida Commissioner of Education, former President of the University of South Florida, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2004 [25] Buddy MacKay, former Governor of Florida [25] State legislators. Joe Gibbons, State Representative (D-Hallandale Beach) [26] Audrey Gibson, State Representative (D-Jacksonville) [27]
American Democracy Project is a 527 group.As of 2006 it was headed by Bernie Friedman and based in Broward County, Florida.. ADP was founded during the 2004 Senate election "to investigate the reasons that the University of South Florida became known as 'Jihad University' in the 1990s during the tenure of then-USF President Betty Castor," then a candidate for the Democratic nomination. [1]