Election Day is Every Tuesday 7/6-12
Welcome to another election week! I hope you now understand the importance of these elections. People are already starting to talk about 2026, but the reality is, we have to treat these races like they matter just as much, because they do.
We only have a small collection this week, but that makes it all the more important to spread them far and wide. When there are a lot of elections in a week, many people know about them, but the less there are the less people know, which is why I make this guide in the first place.
This week all Elections are on Tuesday, which makes this relatively easy.
Alright, let’s get to it!
TUES JULY 8
Florida
Walton County
Freeport
Heather Hurst (Self-described as “I am an active member in our growing community, lawyer, operator of a local seasonal business, proud Christian, wife, and mother of 5 wonderful young sons that has chosen Freeport to be our family's forever home”; Mrs. Hurst was voted by the Board to the seat of former City Council, Seat #4 councilman Bud Day who resigned due to personal issues. Mrs. Hurst was previously serving on the planning board.)
Terry Kemp II (Goes by TJ; Realtor and Military Relocation Professional; former military, loves to travel with wife; serves on Freeport Planning and Development Board–Mr Kemp II was nominated to replace Mrs. Hurst on the planning board by Elizabeth King and was approved by the entire board after Councilman Bud Day resigned. )
Oklahoma
Creek County
Mounds
Proposition (can’t find any info)
Muskogee
Shall the City of Muskogee be authorized to levy and assess a City excise tax (sales tax) of one-half of one percent (0.5%), in addition to all other City, County, and State excise taxes presently being levied or assessed, upon the gross proceeds or gross receipts derived from all sales taxable under the Oklahoma Sales Tax Code, which tax will replace an aggregate total of one-half of one percent (0.50%) excise tax terminating September 30, 2025; providing the proceeds of such tax shall be used to fund capital expenditures benefitting the City, including but not limited to streets, utilities, public health/safety, public buildings, and community facilities in and of the City and any public trust having the City as beneficiary, and/or for payment of debt service in connection with obligations issued by the City and any public trust having the City as beneficiary to finance or refinance capital expenditures and related costs; and provided said excise tax shall be levied beginning October 1, 2025, and shall cease to be levied after September 30, 2033; all as more specifically set out in Amended Ordinance No. 4263-A of the City of Muskogee.
Osage
Acquire and install roofing and drainage improvements; acquire and install parking and pavement improvements; acquire and install HVAC equipment; as well as additional school furniture, fixtures and equipment $2, 2750, 000.
Acquire student transportation equipment $400,000.
Seminole
Shall Ordinance No. 1307 of the City of Seminole, Oklahoma, being an Ordinance amending the City of Seminole Sales Tax Ordinance, which will increase the excise tax levy in said Ordinance by one-eighth of one percent (1/8%) upon the gross proceeds or gross receipts derived from all sales taxable under the Sales Tax Law of Oklahoma beginning on October 1, 2025; providing that the proceeds of such additional excise tax shall be used solely for providing revenues for paying debt service on indebtedness or refinancing indebtedness incurred on behalf of the City by the Seminole Municipal Authority for the purpose of constructing a new wastewater treatment plant for the City of Seminole, Oklahoma; providing that said tax shall no longer be levied or collected when said indebtedness is retired, or October 1, 2066, whichever shall be earlier; making provisions cumulative; and providing severability of provisions, be approved?
Rhode Island
State Senate District 4 Primary
Lenny Cioe (DEM) (Nurse at Blackstone Valley Community Health Center)
Stefano Famiglietti (DEM) (Attorney; North Providence Town Council member
Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (DEM) (Teacher at Central High School)
Manny Taveras (DEM) (Senior account executive for MedImpact)
Position on topic - Assault weapons ban[Interview]
Lenny Cioe (DEM)
“Sales and purchasing is probably where I’d be leaning to…but it’s so much more than guns. It really is. And just to say a topic of ban guns, the violence is going to happen anyway and we really need to look [at] what the cause of the violence is.”
Stefano Famiglietti (DEM)
“I just don’t know that much about it. But again, I would be cautious about constitutional rights.”
Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (DEM)
“There is no gray areas in this. We ought to ban assault weapons totally. There is no place for that in our community. As a teacher, I feel like we are sitting ducks unless we ban this thing.”
Manny Taveras (DEM)
“The core issue of not allowing the sale of these assault style weapons, I think if we can keep that, then we’re taking a step in the right direction. If I was in office right now, I would vote to ban the sale of these weapons [assault weapons].”
Providence County
Anthony Solano (Uncontested) (Owns and operates Solano Auto Detailing on Hunt Street. Father was former Ward 4 councilor Franklin Solano (served 8 years).
Central Falls voters decide on a hybrid school board (Currently, the city has a Board of Trustees made up of six members who are appointed by the state’s commissioner of education. If the ballot question passes, there would instead be a nine-member hybrid school board. The new board would consist of four elected members and five who are appointed. The appointed members would be selected by the mayor after they are nominated by a community-led process. “It’s needed to make sure that families and the people closest to what’s going on in the schools have the biggest voice in the decision making about the schools here in Central Falls,” Sarah Friedman, the city’s chief of education—who doesn’t work for the school district—told 12 News Wednesday.”)
South Carolina
Bamberg County
Bamberg
City Council Special Election:
No registered candidates (tried calling the county election office to confirm, but no one answered the phone.)
Denmark
Special Election, City Council At Large (nonpartisan)
Georgetown County
School Board District 6 Special Election:
Jon Tester (no, not the former Montana senator)
And that’s all she wrote, as the saying goes. I hope this helps you vote if you are registered in one of these places. Let me know how it helped, I love to hear it!
Your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!