Rodney J. Long Becomes First Challenger For District 8 Florida Senate Seat
By Alex Flanagan
April 5, 2021
Incumbent state Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, has his first challenger for the 2022 election.
Rodney J. Long, D-Gainesville, filed paperwork Wednesday to enter the District 8 Florida State Senate race. In 2020, Long ran and lost against Yvonne Hinson to represent District 20 in the Florida House of Representatives. Hinson carried over 60% of the vote in November.
Long hasn’t yet raised any funds for his 2022 campaign; in 2020, Long received $34,889.81 toward his state House race.
The 2022 Florida Primary Election, when Long would face any other Democratic challengers, is scheduled for Aug. 23, 2022.
killed an escaped inmate. it was an inmate holding him and his wife hostage inside their own home in bedford, iowa. a retired prison guard knew that rodney long was on the loose, that he was armed and also dangerous. so he loaded his shotgun and he kept it next to his bed before going to sleep. it turns out that long broke into his house and took his loaded shotgun but while long was rummaging through the house, god knows looking for what, he got it back, got his own shotgun back and then shot and killed that break-and-entering escaped felon. so there you go. a four-hour ordeal over and that escaped inmate is dead. for more than a year, there has been a string of thefts at a convenience store chain. oddly enough, of cardboard cutouts featuring the actor david hasselhoff.