The St. Cloud community had an opportunity on Wednesday night to meet and greet the local candidates who are looking to earn their vote for the upcoming elections at the “Politics in the Barn” event that was held at the St. Cloud Community Center.
Along with having “meet and greet” booths, each candidate had an opportunity to speak to the crowd for 90 seconds ahead of a straw poll that was held at the event hosted by the Osceola County Supervisor of Elections.
Here are the unofficial winners of the straw poll:
Christine Ladas-Drake
Ken Gilbert
Erika Booth
Heather Kahoun
TIE: Cheryl Grieb and Jackie Espinosa
Vincent Chiu
John Beamer
Fay Olga Pappas
Paula Stark
Fred Hawkins
Wilton Simpson
Jimmy Patronis
Ashley Moody
Ron DeSantis
Darren Soto
Marco Rubio
The Osceola Chamber of Commerce will hold its “meet the candidates” Hob Nob event, on Wednesday, July 20 at 5:30pm at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee. For event tickets and information visit TheOsceolaChamber.com.