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Quinones, Ramirez to vie in Osceola's District 2: Turnout is light in historic voting under the single-member district system.
Byline: Daphne Sashin
Mar. 21--KISSIMMEE -- Former state Rep. John Quinones, community activist Armando Ramirez and local attorney Frank DeNike were the winners of three special primaries Tuesday to fill two Osceola County Commission seats. Quinones, a Republican, and Ramirez, a Democrat, handily won their primaries for District 2, the majority-Hispanic seat created as the result of a federal voting-rights suit. They will join "no party-affiliation" candidates Mark Cross and Joe Ed Day on the April 24 general-election ballot. In District 4, DeNike won 66 percent of votes in the Democratic primary and will challenge Republican incumbent Ken Smith next ...
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