Press Release
George “Ges” Selmont for Congress
Selmontforcongress.com
Contact: Melanie Armour
Deputy Communications Director\
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August 3, 2018 1:00 p.m.
Florida Democratic challenger George “Ges” Selmont continues meteoric rise, at 49 percent in final 2018 St. John’s County Chamber of Commerce Straw Poll.
At the end of the two hour event Aug. 1 at the Solomon Calhoun Gymnasium, just six votes separated Selmont and the Republican incumbent, John Rutherford.
The poll results aren’t surprising as the upstart Selmont had previously garnered 43 percent in the July 15 Ponte Vedra Chamber of Commerce Straw Poll.
Rutherford has been largely absent from the campaign trail, declining invitations for him or a surrogate to speak to the March for Our Lives Town Halls, not meeting with parents of district school children or the Parkland students who visited Jacksonville on their national tour last week and failing to appear at the Tidal Town Hall environmental event nor the Riverkeeper town halls. Rutherford himself has failed to have any town halls during his term in Congress.
Selmont said “The results from tonight’s balloting demonstrates our message of restoring fairness to the system is resonating not only with Democrats, but also with NPAs and Republicans, as tonight’s results show. “
Selmont, a Ponte Vedra Beach husband and father with a history of success in law, technology, entertainment, sports and higher education has spoken to enthusiastic crowds from announcing his candidacy to a crowd of 250 at the February Paint the Town Blue gala to an estimated crowd of 1,500 in St. Augustine at the March for Our Lives.
Selmont has no primary and will oppose first term incumbent John Rutherford in the general election on Nov. 6. The pair are vying to represent Florida’s 4th Congressional District which spans from the Georgia border to St. Augustine Beach.
Balloting for both polls was conducted by St. John’s County Secretary of Elections, Vicki Oakes and the Straw Poll events were organized and presented by the St. Johns County FL Chamber of Commerce.