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Tony Vargas (Florida)
Tony Vargas ran for election for Mayor of Orlando in Florida. Vargas lost in the general election on November 7, 2023.
Vargas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tony Vargas earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Buffalo in 1985.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Mayoral election in Orlando, Florida (2023)
General election
General election for Mayor of Orlando
Incumbent Buddy Dyer defeated Steve Dixon, Samuel Ings, and Tony Vargas in the general election for Mayor of Orlando on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Buddy Dyer (Nonpartisan) | 72.8 | 18,670 | |
| Steve Dixon (Nonpartisan) | 14.9 | 3,812 | ||
| Samuel Ings (Nonpartisan) | 8.6 | 2,193 | ||
| Tony Vargas (Nonpartisan) | 3.8 | 974 | ||
| Total votes: 25,649 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ky Velez (Nonpartisan)
- Safraaz Alli (Nonpartisan)
- Moliere Dimanche (Nonpartisan)
- Gertrude Pierre (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Vargas in this election.
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tony Vargas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Vargas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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With a degree in Health Sciences, he has dedicated his life to health and wellness, helping Orlando residents reach their fitness goals over a four-decade career. As owner of "The Healthy Human" Tony promotes holistic health and is known for his unwavering dedication to physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Tony is committed to improving Orlando's safety and prosperity. With a deep understanding of community challenges, he aims to address crime and support local businesses. He's eager to serve Orlando residents with the same diligence he brings to his business.
Tony has been happily married to his wife, Tiffany Altizer, for 17 years.- Having been a 34 year resident & small business owner in Orlando’s downtown area, which should be regarded as the heart of The City Beautiful, but yet currently is in dire straits. Buddy Dyer is 1000% responsible for the drastic quality of life challenges our downtown core presently faces. I just couldn’t let a mayor who has been in office for 20 years ask for another 4 without a legitimate challenger. So I decided to stop Buddy Dyer from further destroying our downtown core!
- Buddy Dyer is wrong for Orlando because he has proven himself to be the mayor who is more focused on Orlando being the tourist capital of the world than being the leader of 310,000 people who reside within the city limits. As he welcomes the 70 million plus tourists through the Orlando airport on the terminal shuttle hundred’s of times a day proves where his priorities lie. This is what I have to say to BuddyDyer… as a longtime resident of the downtown area of Orlando, you don’t deserve another four years to continue as mayor of the tourist capital of the world while our downtown core disintegrates into the worst conditions I’ve ever seen it since I moved here in the mid-1980s.
- Orlando needs a new identity. I believe UCF is front and center to help revitalize our downtown core. The city of Orlando has already invested $300 million in creative village, which is the University of Central Florida‘s (UCF) downtown experience. As a mayor of Orlando I will complete the process of bringing the city of Orlando together with UCF as the central focus of the city of Orlando. After all, UCF Knights is Orlando’s only home college football team.
wife of 17 years has also been in small business her whole career I will become the small business mayor for the city of Orlando. The downtown core is blighted because we lack small businesses. It takes a small businessman to bring more small businesses back into the downtown core. I am the perfect person to do that.
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 19, 2023
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